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William R. Benner
Among the ongoing critical response to how recent technological developments in digital media have expanded previous cultural frameworks for social and historical memory, there is little discussion of how virtual reality has and will influence testimonial art. This article examines how Alejandro González Iñárritu’s mixed media installation Carne y arena/Virtually Present, Physically Invisible (2017), depicting forced migration across the U.S-Mexico border, creates a poetics of testimony through a practice of distancing that allows the spectator to perform a personal and collective loss of citizenship.
