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Small Worlds is an exhibition of photographs and a video installation that track constructions of a fantasy South Africa through representations of the landscape by railway modellers. The thesis of the exhibition is two-fold, and very neatly reasoned. First, Doherty, who is Head of Digital Art at the Wits School of Arts, reminds us that, although the internet has made virtual worlds like Second Life ubiquitous, it did not invent them. He observes that these virtual worlds in many cases take their cues from pre-existing analogue versions of alternative “small worlds”. Following new media theorist Lev Manovich, Doherty asks in his exhibition catalogue, “Shouldn’t we try to understand the psycho-geography of the new virtual worlds through exploring earlier analogue precedents?”
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