Immerse, a web magazine focused on emerging media, is having its 5th anniversary in October 2021! To kick off this momentous occasion, the 40th issue will focus on Making the Metaverse. Immerse is currently seeking stories that imaginatively reflect on topics relating to the Metaverse. Pitches should be 200 words or less and submitted to editor@immerse.news by October 7th, 2021. Read more about the Metaverse and proposal requirements here. 

Don’t miss the latest stories in Immerse:

• To kick off Making the Metaverse, Immerse commissioned a videographic essay from VRChat documentarian Joe Hunting.
• Ambar Reyes interviews Tamiko Thiel on the guerrilla potential of AR, dramatic arcs, and the politics of visibility.
• Sarah Wolozin interviews artist Lara Baladi on public spaces, documenting protest movements, and AR as a way of healing collective trauma.
• This month we bid adieu to our amazing engagement editor, Ngozi Nwadiogbu. Thank you for everything, Ngozi — you will be much missed. Take a look at her latest ICYMI installment.

Each month, Ingrid Kopp also curates a selection of resources for the Immerse newsletter— subscribe here.

Here are the highlights for the latest newsletter:

• An oral history of the Ethereal Empyrean Experience, Burning Man’s first VR temple.
• No Proscenium’s Noah Nelson on what he means by “immersive.”
• The case for salaried artists.
• Shippenfreude? The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship.
• Punchdrunk are working on staging an epic, dystopian Trojan war project, The Burnt City, in an old London arms factory.
• ANAGRAM’s Goliath launches on Oculus this week.
• Superblue, the immersive art offshoot of Pace Gallery, is bringing projects to New York and London this fall, focusing on climate change.
• The Infinite is an immersive experience that transports you into space, aboard the International Space Station. In Montreal thru November 7.

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