Frequency 2019 Programme
Playing God
Playing God, Ben Fredericks
Thur 24 – Sun 27 October
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: The Kiosk
Imagine you are the captain of a space station. A space station suddenly presented with a humanitarian crisis. When given the choice, who will you save?
Playing God is an interactive VR thought experiment that lets you imagine you are the captain of a space station, a space station suddenly presented with a humanitarian crisis. It challenges its audience with a series of scenarios and questions based upon its narrative to explore how the audience would deal with a humanitarian crisis themselves.
About the Artist
Ben Fredericks
Ben Fredericks (1982, Nottingham UK) is a visual artist who works in Virtual Reality and moving image, producing artworks that are focused on ethics. His work is highly influenced by cinema and narrative structures in storytelling. Fredericks’ produces his cinematic work through an ever-changing interdisciplinary creative group, Ben Fredericks Collaborations, which brings together a wide variety of artists and professionals from across digital society.
Twitter: @ben_fredericks
