69. When the Audience Is Inside the Film" with ⁠Liz Rosenthal, Venice Immersive

🎙️ New episode of XReality Podcast #69: When the Audience Is Inside the Film" — with Liz Rosenthal FRSA, Venice Immersive

I had the honor of sitting down with Liz Rosenthal, curator and executive producer of Venice Immersive at the Venice Film Festival, to talk about what happens when storytelling meets spatial media.

Liz has been at the forefront of this space since the early days of digital filmmaking, founding Power to the Pixel and helping build the world's largest annual exhibition for immersive arts and media.

We went deep on:

→ Why the medium should serve the story, not the other way around

→ The difference between traditional film and immersive storytelling

→ How AI tools are changing production — but not replacing the human craft behind it

→ Taiwanese directors pushing the boundaries of spatial cinema (including back-to-back Grand Jury Prize winner Singing Chen)

→ Why embodied experiences in VR engage us in ways flat screens never can

→ The future of higher education, creativity, and human-centered skills in an AI-driven world

One thing that stuck with me: technology should amplify human capacity, not replace it. That's been the throughline of my own work across XReality and the California Community Colleges, and hearing Liz articulate it from the lens of immersive arts was powerful.

Follow Liz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-rosenthal-frsa-70b8b22/

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