BAFTA Student Awards
We want to give a big congratulations to ITP Alum Francisco Navas (‘23) who's Thesis Project, "Gene's Place VR” has been officially nominated for a BAFTA Award in the Immersive Category!
This project is about Gene, the man, his history, the history around him and the space itself. In this VR experience you can freely roam, following Gene's voice through his 2000 sq. ft. downtown Manhattan loft while he reflects on that difficult period of life and love, the art he’s collected from artists of the time and tells stories from his 5 decades of life in New York.
The project documents and memorializes a crucial cultural space full of work by many queer artists before it is consumed by the inexorable march of gentrification. His project was created alongside ITP Alum Oscar Durand (‘23) and Tatiana Trebiasacci (‘23)
Check out the 15 finalists fof the 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.