#1110: Tribeca XR: Bringing Slow Media & the Tenderness of Now to AR Storytelling with “ReachYou”

ReachYou is an AR story that receives transmissions from the future in order to connect to the tenderness of the now. It’s a slow media project aimed to create a portal into a story world that allows the audience to access emotion states of deep reflection and contemplation on topics like grief, what’s worth preserving on the human record, and the full spectrum of what it means to be human.

I had a chance to sit down with husband-and-wife team Jonah Goldsaito (creative technologist and visual artist) and Katrina Goldsaito (writer and performance artist) to talk about their journey and process of creating ReachYou. The ReachYou AR app is available to download from ReachYou.Space where the creators are planning to push out more transmissions in the future. I’d recommend experiencing their first transmission, and then tuning into our conversation to get more context for how this project came and where it might be going in the future.

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