Three panellists based in China and Hong Kong share their diverse practices in preserving and revitalizing culturally significant sites through emerging media. From augmented reality projects reactivating rural Chinese areas to virtual reality works shaping collective memory, this roundtable opens a dialogue on how emerging media can tell local stories and convey lived experiences.
Haoran Chang
PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies, York University
Haoran Chang is a visual artist, media art researcher, and experimental game designer. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at York University in Cinema and Media Studies. His practice and research focus on game studies, immersive media, posthuman media, ethnographic game design, somatic design, reenactment studies, and art in cosmotechnics.
Elke Reinhuber
Associate Professor for Expanded Photography, SCM School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Elke Reinhuber is a media artist, educator and researcher at SCM City University of Hong Kong. With her award winning and internationally presented immersive projects, she explores different modes of presentation and strategies of storytelling to emphasise the parallel existence of multiple truths of the here and now, anchored in Expanded Photography.
Xinchen Du
Curatorial Director, Funshine Culture Group
Xinchen Du graduated from the Curatorial Practice Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2020 and received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2018 with a major in Fine Arts and a minor in Museum and Curatorial Studies. She also studied Asian Culture and Economic Studies at Waseda University in 2018. Her practice and research interests lie in the history of social technology as well as in the application and reflection of technology and new media art from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Xueyu Liu
Curator, Raiden INST
Xueyu Liu, a curator at Raiden INST in Shanghai, graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. Her practice centers on mixed-media spatial narratives, integrating diverse forms such as installation，AR/VR and Generative Digital Visuals to create sensory-extended exhibitions. Inspiring from daily life and local issues, she explores the interplay between technology, history，emotion, and reality. She initiated the interdisciplinary project “Capacitor” in 2022 and curated Tech-Driven exhibitions like “Hu Zhi Ling” (2023) and “Turing Square” (2024).
13 Nov, 2025 11:00 am
to 12:30 pm
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space401 Richmond St W
4th Floor (Suite 440A)
The building is wheelchair and step-free accessible via a ramp & button operated door. The event space, including the accessible washrooms, are on the 4th floor, accessible via an elevator.
This immersive workshop will introduce the practice of traditional tai chi. Participants will experience its calm, flowing movements under the guidance of Mr. Zuo, a sixth-generation successor of traditional Yang-style tai chi.
Explore the XR worldbuilding practices of media artists working at the confluence of body, space, and technology.
Celebrate the launch of the Sari-Sari Xchange Assetory, a storytelling-led virtual asset library prototype created with and for the Asian diaspora, and play with mobile resource units designed to facilitate the making and exhibition of XR creative works.
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, showcasing bold contemporary cinema by Asian and Asian diasporic artists from Canada, the U.S., Asia, and around the world. Held each November in Toronto, Reel Asian presents a dynamic lineup of film screenings, panels, and special events, with programming and education initiatives continuing throughout the year. Founded in 1996, Reel Asian celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, marking three decades of championing underrepresented voices and fostering dialogue through film and media arts.
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