Archiving Immersive Art: A Symposium on Preserving Immersive Media

Hosted by USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in collaboration with LACMA and the LA Media Art Archiving Association. The program brings together artists, archivists, scholars, and technologists to explore technological obsolescence, immersive media histories, and the afterlives of XR artworks.

Program Highlights

• Conversations between artists and archivists on preserving immersive works
• Talks on technological obsolescence and XR histories
• A curated exhibition of archival XR artworks & films
• Rare in-person viewing of the original Sensorama (1960) from USC HMH Moving Image Archive

Panels & Talks include:

› Artists + Archivists in Conversation
Russell Zych (LACMA), Peter Wu+, Gina Kim (UCLA), Wilde Davis (UCLA), and Dino Everett (USC)

› Who Owns the Afterlife of Technology?
Joey Heinen (LACMA), Jesse McCulloch (Snap), Mark Hellar, Rachel Falconer (Goldsmiths), and Ziyaad Bhorat (Mozilla Foundation)

› Is XR Emerging Media?
Scott Fisher (USC), Zeynep Abes (USC)

› Rewriting XR History: A Feminist Perspective
Mary Matheson (Agog), Vicki Callahan (USC) and Lily Baldwin

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Host or Publisher USC Mobile & Environmental Media Lab