Solstice, Survey, and lots of festival deadlines
We have created a very short survey so we can hear your thoughts about Immerse. This will really help us with our current strategizing and planning. We’d love to hear from you and it will only take a minute or two to fill out.
What we’re reading and watching
Give me the full immersive! Submitting to the maximalist spectacles that are encroaching on museums’ turf.
Who wrote it, the novelist or the technology? How about both? Stephen Marche experiments with teaching artificial intelligence to write with him, not for him.
TikTok users are falling down rabbit holes where feature films are offered one 10-minute clip at a time.
Some thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro from Scott Macauley. Read Ben Thompson on this too.
How deepfakes may shape the future.
Douglas Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution.
Naomi Klein says AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are.
Projects we’re eyeballing
Broken Spectre is a cosmic horror narrative game for hand tracking VR.
Healing Trauma: AVENUES is a virtual experience grounded in complex reality.
The Fury by Shirin Neshat is a striking and moving tale about the enduring trauma experienced by a fictional female political prisoner.
Barnstormers: Determined to Win is a VR experience where you travel back to the 1940s as a player in the Negro leagues.
Hidden Door is a new kind of social roleplaying experience, powered by narrative AI.
How do we share, propagate, and celebrate the many stories held within such a small area? Narrative Debris: what the things left behind say about a place.
Gorillaz Skinny Ape. Experience a larger-than-life immersive experience premieres in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus.
Discriminator is an interactive documentary about facial recognition databases directed by Brett Gaylor.
End of Night is a cinematic VR experience about the tormenting memories of one man's escape from Denmark to Sweden during WWII.
Coming up
Submission deadlines
Last chance to apply to CPH:LAB. Deadline June 22.
IDFA DocLab is still open for interactive/immersive project submissons, deadline June 27.
European Creators’ Lab Immersive Residency in Luxembourg - deadline June 29.
DOK Neuland submissions open, deadline June 29.
PHI Immersive Residency deadline is August 15. This year, the theme is artificial intelligence at the service of creativity.
European Creators’ Lab Prototyping Lab in Leipzig - deadline August 20.
Sundance New Frontier late deadline is September 1 and it’s free to submit.
Immerse receives funding from Just Films | Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Gotham Film & Media Institute is our fiscal sponsor. Learn more about what’s currently happening with Immerse here.
Editorial Collective: Jessica Clark (Dot Connector Studio), Ingrid Kopp (Electric South), Sarah Wolozin (MIT Open DocLab)