I interviewed SXSW XR Experience 2026 curator Blake Kammerdiener about this year’s selection, and how immersive artists are using Generative AI in a series of different projects. Below is the selection (ordered from longest to shortest). This year’s program runs from 11a to 6p CDT from Sunday, March 15-17, 2026.
XR Experience Competition
- Escape The Internet (Part 1) (50 min)
- Inter(mediate) Spaces (45 min)
- Winterover (45 min)
- Fabula Rasa: Dead Man Talking (30 min)
- Frustrain: Trainman (30 min)
- The Forgotten War (30 min)
- Watsonville (30 min)
- Fillos do Vento: A Rapa (28 min)
- Crafting Crimes: The Mona Lisa Heist (20 min)
- Love Bird (20 min)
- The Baby Factory is Closed (20 min)
- Lionia Is Leaving (18 min)
- Body Proxy (15 min)
- Cycle (15 min)
- The Great Dictator: A participatory AI installation about power, rhetoric, and memory (15 min)
XR Experience Spotlight
- The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up (62 min)
- The Great Orator (50 min)
- Lesbian Simulator (40 min)
- A Long Goodbye (35 min)
- Dark Rooms (35 min)
- Lacuna (34 min)
- The Dollhouse (24 min)
- Reality Looks Back (21 min)
- Insider Outsider (12 min)
- loss·y (10 min)
- Lost Love Hotline (10 min)
- Out of Nowhere (10 min)
- Spectacular: The Art of Jonathan Yeo in Augmented Reality (10 min)
- Ascended Intelligence (9 min)
MIT Open Documentary Lab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective
- Layers of Place: Austin [90 min total]
- ORYZA: Healing Ground (15 min)
- The Founders Pillars (15 min)
- Open Access Memorial (15 min)
- Paper Boat (15 min)
- Humble Monuments (15 min)
- Moving Memory (15 min)
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