Venice Immersive Offers Space for VR and Other New Media Artists to Grow and Expand on Technology

Now marking its eighth edition, Venice Immersive remains the greater Biennale family’s perpetual enfant terrible.

That status has little to do with industry esteem — unfurling on its own dedicated island, the new media spotlight has become a can’t miss rendezvous every bit as prestigious as the parent film festival — and everything to do with a protean medium that stays perpetually unfixed.

“[These artists] are creating a totally new language,” said Venice Immersive co-curator Michel Reilhac. “They’re making the invisible now visible, finding a new way to express emotions that isn’t as literal or as limited as in other artforms.”

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