Empathy & Connection Through Immersive Experiences with Georgie Pinn

For over a decade, Georgie Pinn has explored how immersive technology and personal storytelling can elicit empathy and connection, breaking down prejudice and bias by allowing audiences to see through another’s eyes. Through projects like Electric Puppet, Electric Mirror, and ECHO, she has demonstrated how XR experiences offer deep emotional learning by engaging participants on a multisensory level. These interactive formats provide creative agency, enabling users to embody other identities, process trauma, and explore untold stories. By blending animation, motion capture, and real-time customization, her work fosters emotional education and collective storytelling, posing the question: Can technology help us become better humans?

Pinn’s creative journey has spanned global installations, workshops, and residencies, including a major creative residency at QUT, where she developed ECHO—a project using real-time facial tracking to connect participants with strangers’ lived experiences. Touring internationally, ECHO and its subsequent large-scale iterations have examined digital identity, bias, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines. Now, through her company Interactor, Pinn continues to push the boundaries of immersive storytelling, using technology to breathe life into static archives, amplify diverse voices, and make emotional learning accessible to all.