November 7, 2025 (Friday)
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
CAMLab Cave, Lower Level Auditorium
485 Broadway, Harvard University
Abstract
With the advancement of technology, artistic creation is exhibiting a trend of cross-media convergence, challenging and transcending the traditional boundaries between cinema, video games, and animation.
The exploration of “immersion” and “expanded cinema” within the interdisciplinary field between film and art outlines a digital-age imagination of Bazin’s myth of total cinema, giving rise to new cinematic forms.
What drives the internal impetus of cross-disciplinary experimentation in immersive imaging?
How can cinema, in the context of technological revolutions, extend the ontological boundaries of its medium? And what futures might unfold for these emergent cinematic forms?
This lecture takes the curatorial practice of the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival’s Borderless ∞ Immersive Section as a case study, exploring how curation can serve as a method of research, enabling theoretical inquiry to translate into practice.
Speaker Bio
Yuxiao Yi is a Harvard FAS CAMLab Visiting Scholar(2025-2026)and PhD from Beijing Film Academy. She is also the Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the School of Architecture and Art, Beijing Jiaotong University. She is the curator of the Borderless ∞ Immersive Section at the Beijing International Film Festival (2025). Her research direction is Immersive Imaging, Contemporary Art, and Media Art.
Event Information
- Free and open to the public
- November 7th (Friday)
- 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
- This is an in-person event.
Please note
Advanced RSVP required.
The event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.
November 7, 2025 (Friday)
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
CAMLab Cave, Lower Level Auditorium
485 Broadway, Harvard University
