DOK Exchange XR 2024
BOUGHT/BROKEN
(Interactive VR, Multiplayer)
BOUGHT/BROKEN is an experience for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to literally and virtually putting pieces back together. Users create a collaborative visual and sound sculpture built in an immersive multimedia environment.
Intimate Partner Violence, Healing, Recovery, Community, Mental Support, Virtual Social Creation
Project Representatives
Theresa Loong is an award-winning visual artist. She creates film and interactive AR/VR/MR experiences. Her documentary, Every Day Is a Holiday, premiered on public television. Theresa exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Asia Society Hong Kong. Theresa produced games for AMC’s The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. Theresa is chairperson of the Filmshop. She served on the jury of the March on Washington Film Festival’s Equity in VR program, was an Oculus Launch Pad fellow, and received a grant from the IGDA Foundation. She is working on Game On, a documentary about game designer Brenda Romero and BOUGHT/BROKEN, a virtual reality work about intimate partner violence.Theresa graduated from Harvard, received an MFA from Hunter, and teaches part-time at Parsons.
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger had an illustrious career as a classical oboist before becoming a cutting edge interactive artist and multimedia performer. She was an obbligato soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She also plays free jazz, adding Chinese and Indian oboes, and single reeded and invented horns.
Her installations have been exhibited at the Georgia Tech Ferst Center, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Nashville’s Frist Center for Visual Art. Her trans-media chamber music and installations include robotics, live projections, hacked game controllers and audience participation. Other work includes “Constellation,” commissioned by Nashville's Metro Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and “Eclipse,” a sound-responsive multimedia chamber work.
Credits
Theresa Loong, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, Eric Mika
FORM360
General Information
BOUGHT/BROKEN
BOUGHT/BROKEN
USA
English
Prototype
12 mins
2025
NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence
Website
DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.