Restoration /Regeneration

the New Media Caucus Symposium

March 6-8, 2026

Arizona State University

Restoration /Regeneration

the New Media Caucus Symposium

March 6-8, 2026

Arizona State University

Metamorphis

Interactive Installation

Metamorphis is an extended reality experience, both WebXR and a physical installation, that delves into the themes of time, communication, and transformation from a personal storytelling perspective that challenges Western views of linear time. The experience consists of three virtual worlds that are in dialogue with the speculative fiction genre: Metamorphis, set in 2026, depicts the first interaction between Luca (a fictionalized version of the artist), and L, an artificially intelligent being resembling a younger version of himself. Cuir AI, the second world set in 2022, portrays Luca's failed attempts to communicate with AI image generators to create a museum of queer Latinx representation. The third world, Hain, set in 2051, takes Luca's character back to ancestral knowledge to seek meaning in the nearly extinct nineteenth-century Selk'nam tribe's rituals.

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