Floortalk: Gondwana VR

Yarra Ranges Regional Museum invites audiences to learn about the award-winning durational experience, Gondwana VR, with new media artist and creator Ben Joseph Andrew and sonic artist Erin K Taylor, who has designed the sound for the exhibition. They will discuss the process and impact of working with the Daintree Rainforest, the traditional owners, the Kuku Yalanji people and climate data to create Gondwana VR. Gondwana VR is an immersive and interactive virtual-reality experience that invites you to discover the world's oldest tropical rainforest, the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. But the Daintree, like the renowned natural environment of the Yarra Ranges, is under threat from climate change – the landscape, its flora and fauna are struggling, some ecosystem may disappear in our lifetime. Gondwana VR has been developed by artists Emma Roberts and Ben Joseph Andrews and is presented at Yarra Ranges Regional Museum as part of the 2026 Burrinja Climate Change Biennale.