White Dwarf, the interactive VR & AR installation which presents a piece of the story of the “birth” of the first atomic bomb by the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer  is returning  in Athens,
at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138  from the 23rd of February until the 28th of April 2024.

Last December, within a limited run of presentations, in just 8 days, over 700 visitors, of all ages entered the specially designed space and experienced the innovative interactive performance.

As the director Yolanda Markopoulou elaborates, in order to watch “White Dwarf”, the audience  enters a designated space, so they can fully immerse into the experience which blurs the limits between physical and virtual experience.  

Even before they put on the VR headset, they are part of a scientific experience and they are called to take sides on the pressing subject of the use of nuclear energy.  

What is the White Dwarf?
“The white dwarf is a star that has exhausted its energy and dies silently, without exploding.
What if the atomic bomb had met the same fate as a white dwarf? If, instead of wrecking havoc, it remained silent, locked in a room, only to become an exhibit in a future museum?”

The research of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is dubbed as the “father of the atomic bomb” meets the real story of Sadako Sasaki, a little girl, victim of the Hiroshima bombing.
The explosion of the atomic bomb resembles that of the death of a star in a supernova explosion; though, instead of restoring the cosmic equilibrium, it causes irrevocable damage on Earth.