Portals/Traces - Potentialities of Transnational and Transcultural VP collaboration in real-time 

Portals/Traces develops a shared AI/VP/XR infrastructure linking AUT with partners across Aotearoa New Zealand, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific to enable real-time, culturally grounded VP collaboration. Moving beyond technical interoperability, the project tests how distributed studios can function as a single, ethically responsive creative ecosystem - integrating motion capture, photogrammetry, textiles, and AI-driven environments - to support sustainable and transcultural storytelling. This presentation reflects on the infrastructural, aesthetic, and decolonial implications of connecting VP sites as “portals,” where traces of place, culture, and authorship persist within shared real-time worlds.