Storytelling beyond the screen
Render Me in Your Worlds is a multi-day symposium that highlights the Sari-Sari Xchange and Reel Asian’s shared mission of amplifying Asian representation in the creative emerging media industries. The programme explores how XR, or extended reality, and emergent media can shape relational creative practices based on unique stories, desires, and experiences, rendered as “worlds” within “a world of many worlds.”
This workshop spotlights the Sari-Sari Xchange Assetory, a storytelling-led virtual asset library prototype created with and for the Asian diaspora. Participants will be asked to bring an object with a personal meaning, which they will learn how to scan and create a 3D reproduction of.
Fri, Nov 7, 2PM–5PM
Three panellists based in China and Hong Kong share their diverse practices in preserving and revitalizing culturally significant sites through emerging media. This roundtable opens a dialogue on how emerging media can tell local stories and convey lived experiences.
Thurs, Nov 13, 11AM–12:30PM
This immersive workshop will introduce the practice of traditional tai chi. By merging ancient Chinese embodied philosophy with cutting-edge technology, participants are invited to move between the physical and virtual realms, transforming meditative practice into dynamic, interactive data.
Thurs, Nov 13, 2PM–4PM
Explore the XR worldbuilding practices of media artists working at the confluence of body, space, and technology. Learn how their respective modes of knowing and making drive them to create XR worlds and performance experiences that rethink the self, rationality, technology, the dichotomies of the actual/virtual, and what constitutes reality in the digital age. Together, we will speculate on a vision for XR world-making that celebrates unique worldviews, practices, and traditions.
Fri, Nov 14, 3:30PM–5PM
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.
Fri, Nov 14, 6PM-9PM
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from Asia and the Asian diaspora. Works include films and videos by artists in Canada, the U.S., Asia and all over the world. As Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, Reel Asian provides a public forum for Asian media artists and their work, and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada.
401 Richmond Street West, The Commons (Suite 448)
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8 Canada
(416) 703 – 9333
info@reelasian.com
Charitable number: 870021383RR0001
