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The PHI Immersive Residency
PHI Immersive is an intensive four-week residency program in collaboration with PHI Studio in Montréal, Canada. In partnership with Agog: The Immersive Media Institute, the residency program is designed to support creators by offering collaborative opportunities with PHI Studio experts and resources.
This program is designed to support creators residing in North America whose practices imagine a more just future through new media, extended reality (XR) technologies, artificial intelligence, and immersive sound or audio.
The Selected Artist
Mira Musank (she/her) is an interdisciplinary textile upcycling artist who transforms textile waste into custom garments, focusing on the intersection of slow fashion practices, sustainability solutions, and climate activism. A community-taught artist, she creates one-of-a-kind pieces from discarded textiles and second-hand clothes, with circularity as a counteract to overconsumption central to both her artistic expression and community engagements.
Musank frequently collaborates across disciplines and cultures, creating work that spans from virtual reality installations to in-person community experiences. Her work has been featured in global publications including Cleanline (USA), Simply Sewing (UK), and Elle (Canada).
The Selected Project
Gathered Cloths: The Immersive Experience of Fashioning Textile Waste addresses the global textile waste crisis by mobilizing communities to transform their relationship with clothing consumption through immersive XR technology.
The project aims to create digital-to-physical pathways connecting participants to local tailors, repair cafés, and upcycling workshops, strengthening neighborhood economies while reducing waste streams. Individual interactions generate cumulative environmental impact data, creating community-scale visualizations that transform the paralyzing complexity of global textile waste into achievable, shareable progress—bridging virtual experience with tangible local action.
For more information on the PHI Immersive residency and the artist, visit phi.ca.
Photo: Christian Hadidjaja
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