As longstanding centers for knowledge exchange, civic engagement, and public access to knowledge, libraries offer a unique infrastructure for fostering immersive storytelling outside of corporate pipelines. Libraries are everywhere—from small...
Artist interview: Steye Hallema, director of Ancestors, Creative Director and Founder of The Smartphone Orchestra https://smartphoneorchestra.com/ancestors/ Ancestors synopsis: Ancestors is a smartphone-guided group experience that travels six generations into the future, where players...
Artist interview: Mots – Octavian Mot and Daniela Nedovescu https://mots.us/work/ai-and-me AI & Me synopsis: AI & Me is a multi-part interactive installation: The Confessional seats participants inside a cube-like structure facing a camera...
Artist interview: Sarah Ticho, director of Soul Paint and XR Health & Arts Consultant https://www.soulpaint.co/ Soul Paint synopsis: Soul Paint is an award winning virtual reality experience by Sarah Ticho and Niki Smit....
Artist interview: Idris Brewster, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Kinfolk Tech https://www.kinfolktech.org/ About: Kinfolk Tech is a nonprofit organisation using immersive technology, public art and community-led design to help displaced and excluded communities tell...
Moving Memory by Lori Landay Move between memories. Moving Memory uses AR to enhance how New Public Art’s interactive artwork Kempelen’s Owls makes a place to bridge the relationships between nature and...
Paper Boat by Mathieu Pradat and Sahar Sajadieh Paper Boat is a site-specific, interactive augmented reality artwork that stages the climate crisis as an embodied, playable, and performative experience. Confronting the...
Oryza: Healing Ground by Tamara Shogaolu This experimental animated documentary interrogates the colonial legacies embedded in archives through the lens of Black land stewards. Combining live-action footage, archival material, and animation,...
Open Access Memorial by Yucef Merhi Open Access Memorial enables people to experience the MIT basement corridors and closet where Aaron Swartz downloaded millions of JSTOR articles, an incident that led...