(Forgive us if you are seeing this twice!) Dear readers: When we launched Immerse in 2016 in partnership with The Fledgling Fund, we had no idea what was in store for us. Remember the world pre-pandemic, pre-Trump, pre-Musk? Who knew those were innocent times… But what we did know is…

About the issue — Greetings from the first quarter of 2022! At Immerse, our latest issue is AI, etc. This issue is highlighted by a collaboration with the Alliance for Media Arts + Culture to issue a public statement in response to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy call for public…

Spotlighting 11 artists whose practices span installations, AR, VR, games, interactive projects and more — Written by Abby Sun with research from Katerina Cizek For the past month, the US documentary filmmaking industry has been roiled by the selection and premiere of Jihad Rehab within the 2022 Sundance US Documentary Competition. The film has been roundly criticized in op-eds written by Muslim and MENA [Middle…

A public statement submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy — In early October 2021, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy filed a federal document to seek public comments about a proposed AI “bill of rights” that would develop new measures to safeguard against harms caused by the use of facial recognition and other biometric AI technologies to…

A compilation of reports and projects created by the signatories and community members who signed our public statement — In early October, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy filed a federal document to seek public comments about a proposed AI “bill of rights” that would develop new measures to safeguard against harms caused by the use of facial recognition and other biometric AI technologies to identify…

Our new Q&A series about the intersection of game-engines, LED walls, real-time motion-capture, VFX and animation with documentary and non-fiction storytelling. It is co-produced with the Co-Creation Studio. How can we understand documentary techniques and ethics with new paradigms of virtual immediacy, abstraction or reenactment? What are the systems that…

The government is calling for a new “AI bill of rights” specifically around facial recognition and other biometric tools used to identify people or assess their character. They are seeking public comments by January 15th. Send us yours and we will submit a statement from our community. …

To kick off Making the Metaverse, our current series — and Immerse’s 5th year anniversary — we commissioned this videographic essay from trailblazing VRChat documentarian Joe Hunting. In this 5 minute piece, Immerse x Venice, Hunting documents a whirlwind meet-up experienced and filmed entirely in the virtual platform VRChat, as…

Submission guidelines for our next special issue, in October/November 2021 — October 2021 will be Immerse’s 5th anniversary: taking inspiration from the critical futurist spirit of the first issue, the theme for our 40th issue is Making the Metaverse. The theme will launch with an interview between editor Abby Sun and Venice VR Expanded co-curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac on…