Desert Rain recently featured in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts’ new Virtual Academy.

The Virtual Academy is a new educational resource prepared by leading Russian specialists in new media and technologies, discussing media and performance art in a series of free online educational videos. 

Watch Anna Bouali, researcher and curator at the Pushkin Museum, discuss Desert Rain, a piece she describes as immersive journalism. 

The course is in Russian with English subtitles, and  Desert Rain is mentioned at 13:40 mins in.

You can watch the video here.