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Lena Herzog’s Any War Any Enemy is a hauntingly beautiful spatial poem that takes us on a liminal journey about nuclear annihilation. Rather than disassociating and letting power structures sleepwalk us all into catastrophe, she explores a new...

I interviewed Nonny de la Peña, Emblematic Group founder & Founding Director of Arizona State University’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program as well as Mary Matheson, Professor of Practice at ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media...

I interviewed All I Know About Teacher Li director Zhuzmo at Venice Immersive 2024. Due to the sensitivities of the topic of Chinese censorship, then the director Zhuzmo has requested that he remain anonymous. I did an interview face to face with...

I interviewed The Guardians Of Jade Mountain director Hayoun Kwon and producer Richard Turco at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

I interviewed Play Life (Žaisti Gyvenimą) co-directors Zilvinas Naujokas, Vilius Petrauskas, and Mantas Pronckus at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a...

I interviewed Mamie Lou director Isabelle Andreani at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s her artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

I interviewed Body of Mine director Cameron Kostopoulos at Venice Immersive 2024 about his impact campaign since winning a special jury prize at SXSW 2023 (see my first interview with him here.). He showed Body of Mine as a part of the competition...

I interviewed Une Eau La Nuit (Bodies Of Water) co-directors Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage with producer Laurence Wells at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here is their artist statement:...

I interviewed The Art Of Change co-directors Simone Fougnier and Vincent Rooijers with producer Peter Ariet at Venice Immersive 2024. I had a chance to get an early look at this piece, and I watched it three times before stepping foot on the island...

I interviewed In The Realm Of Ripley director Soo Eung Chuck Chae at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon...

I interviewed Project: Lost Worlds director Fins at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below.

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I interviewed Venice Immersive Worlds Gallery Producer Mike Salmon at Venice Immersive 2024 about this year’s selection of 20 VRChat worlds as well as his process of scouting promising leads and trends of world building, music, art, and...

I interviewed Uncanny Alley: A New Day co-directors Rick Treweek and Stephen Butchko along with Ferryman Collective’s Deirdre V. Lyons and Christopher Lane Davis at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is...

I interviewed Duchampiana director Lilian Hess at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here is their artist statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in...

I interviewed Rencontres director Mathieu Pradat at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

I interviewed Project_y: Working Title co-directors Yuzo Sugano, Taro Hirai, and Shingo Yoshimura at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported...

I interviewed Address Unknown: Fukushima Now director Arif Khan at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s his artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR...

I interviewed What If…? – An Immersive Story director Dave Bushore at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. What If…? also picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Innovation In Emerging Media Programming as...

I interviewed Strangeways co-director Adam Lieber, developers Dale P Deacon and Alex Bossman, as well as avatar creator Egbert Harm Westra at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s...

I interviewed Earths To Come director Rose Bond at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s her artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

I interviewed Free UR Head director Tung yen Chou at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

I interviewed The Gossips’ Chronicles director Corinne Mazzoli and producer Marta Bianchi at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist statement: This is a listener-supported podcast...

I interviewed Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis: Sentience co-directors Tosca Terán and Brendan Lehman at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast...

I interviewed Un Soir Avec Les Impressionnistes, Paris 1874 director Pierre Gable at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the...

I interviewed Emissive / Excurio co-founder and CEO Fabien Barati at Laval Virtual 2023 after having tried the free-roaming Immersive Expedition edition of Éternelle Notre-Dame, which was really quite incredible. I originally saw the sit-down...

I interviewed Below Deck co-directors Martina Mahlknecht and Martin Prinoth at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the...

I interviewed Somewhere Unknown In Indochina co-directors Asio Chihsiung Liu and Feng Ting Tsou at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. (Note that I’ll likely need to manually clean up this rough transcript as...

I interviewed Fragile Home director Ondrej Moravec at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. There were also allegations of copyright infringement that were made within the context of a private WhatsApp group during...

I interviewed Champ De Bataille director Francois Vautier at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s his artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon...

I interviewed Ceci Est Mon Cœur (This is My Heart) co-directors Stephane Hueber-Blies and Nicolas Blies at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener...

I interviewed Nightmara: Episode 3 director Gianpaolo Gonzalez at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s his artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon...

I interviewed Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom creators from Bandai Namco Filmworks including Naohiro Ogata, Kiichiro Inoue, Ken Iyadomi as well as Atlas V producers Arnaud Colinart and Julien Bercy, and technical art director Gaël Chaize at...

I interviewed A Simple Silence director Craig Quintero at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s his artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

I interviewed Impulse: Playing With Reality co-directors May Abdalla and Barry Gene Murphy at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s the official launch trailer: This is a listener-supported podcast...

I interviewed Mammary Mountain co-directors Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille C. Baker, and Maf’j Alvarez at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener...

I interviewed Telos I co-directors Emil Dam Seidel and Dorotea Saykaly at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s their artist’s statement: This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of...

I interviewed Garden Alchemy co-directors Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot at Venice Immersive 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s the artist’s statement. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of...

I interviewed Riven‘s creative director Eric Anderson and development director Hannah Gamiel ahead of Venice Immersive 2024 since it was being featured within the Best of Selection. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a...

The 8th edition of the Venice Immersive 2024 will be kicking off on August 28th, which will be featuring over 28 hours of immersive storytelling and immersive art content across over 70 different projects. This year there area a lot more immersive...

Shadow Canyon: A Puppeteer’s Tale is a unique blend of VRChat Worldbuilding by nprowler, immersive dance performances by students of the VR Dance Academy founded by Dust Bunny, and then improv actors and immersive theatre staging led by Mycana...

The VRChat world Suku took home the Best Art World prize at Raindance Immersive 2024, and it’s by Durk van der Meer who is a freelance digital artist, character artist, and VR world builder based in Curaçao. Suku blends together elements of...

Raindance Immersive 2024 opened last weekend in VRChat, and will run for the next four weekends featuring the latest innovations of virtual culture with 77% of experiences happening on social VR platforms and 69% that feature VRChat. I spoke at...

Curator Ana Brzezińska announced the Tribeca Immersive 2024 line-up on May 23, 2024 mentioning that “this year we are not presenting any VR/AR experiences,” but rather that they’re pivoting this year to featuring eight immersive...

ILM Immersive & Marvel Studios is releasing What If…?: An Immersive Story exclusively on Apple Vision Pro tomorrow, and I had a chance to take an early look and speak with producer and executive producer Shereif Fattouh as well as...

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is featuring an inaugural Immersive Competition with eight pieces in competition along with six pieces outside of competition. I had a chance to speak with Elie Lavasseur, the Head of Immersive...

One of the most common ways to describe the experience of VR is through the lens of presence, and in this episode I’m going to do a deep dive into the existing academic literature of presence in order to more fully contextualize my approach to...

I interviewed The Golden Key co-directors Matthew Niederhauser & Marc Da Costa remotely during SXSW XR Experience 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here is all of my coverage of projects in and around SXSW XR Experience 2024:...

I interviewed Soul Paint co-directors Sarah Ticho & Niki Smit remotely ahead of the SXSW XR Experience 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality :...