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Inter(mediate) Spaces 

Interactive Extended Reality Installation|A multi-person journey that connects us across distance and time.

  • Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal

  • This event is free to the public. Bookings are limited.
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Inter(mediate) Spaces by Chloé Lee | Thumbnail 1x1 © Chloé Lee

Inter(mediate) Spaces, dir. Chloé Lee | Thumbnail © Chloé Lee

Interactive Extended Reality Installation, Demo Presentation. 
  • Dates: August 21, 2025 (10AM–6PM EDT) and August 22, 2025 (10AM–4PM EDT)
  • Duration: 45-minute appointments | Please book your spot in advance! (Free booking information below)
  • Where: Goethe-Institut Montreal, 1626 Boul. Saint-Laurent Bureau 100, Montréal, QC H2X 2T1
Shared spaces are disappearing in today’s fast-paced and urbanizing, algorithmic world. People live close together yet often feel disconnected. How might new technologies, like AI and XR, be used to create spaces where connection can be more meaningfully cultivated?

Inter(mediate) Spaces brings two people together in an experience that blends virtual and physical spaces to explore technology’s promise of connection. In this social experiment, two people don virtual reality headsets and begin at opposite ends of the room, gradually moving through layered digital audiovisual memory landscapes created in community labs held in Berlin, New York, and Montreal. As the two people arrive at a shared meeting point, they see their interactions and words shape an imagined world around them. This moment of convergence becomes a poetic and physical expression of connection across evolving spaces and distance, leaving us to reflect on our agency to collectively shape our shared future. 
 
“Community might be the most potent counter to a fractured society [and] it can be something found while shaping a collective vision that holds multiple possibilities.”

The Montreal environments were co-created during a public lab co-presented with Jia Foundation at the Lee Association in Montreal’s Chinatown in November 2024. This prototype phase invites everyday passersby to try the experience and contribute feedback that will shape the final version. 

This presentation is co-presented by Goethe-Institut Montreal and Present Futures, and is funded by Medienboard Berlin‑Brandenburg. Email info@presentfutures.de for further questions.

© Chloé Lee

Present Futures

Chloé Lee

Artist, Director & Producer

Chloé Lee is an antidisciplinary artist and producer based in Berlin. She uses sound, video, haptic and XR technologies to make interactive place-based works that explore personal and collective memories, realities, and futures. Her mixed-reality open-documentary, Reflections of Little Red Dot won the Jury Award at SXSW in 2025. As a 2021-2022 Germany Fulbright Scholar, she created Temporal World, which premiered internationally at SXSW in 2023, and has shown in festivals and exhibitions around the world, including the Art VR Festival at the Dox Contemporary Art Museum in Prague and the 2023 European XR Awards in Brussels, where it was nominated for Best XR Experience.

Her latest project, Inter(mediate) Spaces, combines her technological explorations and social practice with a documentary approach, looking at how to co-create with others to build a world with new rules, visions and possibilities. She is the Co-Founder of Berlin-based immersive media and software development studio Present Futures, which creates experimental and socially conscious works.

Lucas Martinic

XR Developer

As a Co-Founder of Present Futures, Lucas is an XR developer and creative with deep XR engineering, AI, and rapid prototyping expertise, creating globally recognized experiences that push interaction design and mixed‑reality boundaries.

He mentors and teaches students from around the globe through the Beyond Inclusion program at XR Bootcamp, where underrepresented aspiring developers receive top-quality XR education. His latest work has been at the intersection of XR and AI, and it has been awarded at events across Europe and the USA, such as XRHack London, MIT Reality Hack Boston, andXRCCBerlin.
 

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