Time Travel & Archives: Reclaiming Memory Through XR

Event ID: PP1148578

Sat, Mar 14, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Venue: Salon D (Hilton Austin Downtown)

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Summary

The panel brings together artists using immersive tools — from AR and AI to dance and gaming — to explore how we can reimagine archives, reclaim erased histories, and create portals into the past and future. Each of us approaches this through different mediums, but with a shared urgency around memory, embodiment, and speculative technology. The idea is to explore how immersive practices can act as a kind of time travel: allowing us to move through historical absence and presence, remix narratives, and build alternate realities where marginalized voices take center stage.

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