Art Activism: Protest on the Metaverse: Artist Enlists Metaverse for Protest Against Immigration Bill

 

See article here and video: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14917749

For those unable or reluctant to come to Tokyo to rally against a bill to revise the immigrant control law, painter Sacco Fujishima has a 21st-century alternative: "Protest on the metaverse."

Fujishima has organized a virtual reality movement against the envisioned amendment that aims to deport foreign overstayers even while their refugee applications are pending.

“I expect that our voices of opposition will be taken into account for far more careful discussions on the deportation of refugees,” said Fujishima.

Her protest movement on social media is being replicated in virtual reality, garnering wide support among those who cannot turn out for an in-person demonstration.

Under the effort, people who retweet Fujishima’s objection to the bill on Twitter leads to their graphical representations popping up on the online space. Advocates’ computerized alter egos are arranged randomly on the metaverse by Fujishima. Read more...