A Mirror For Remembering trailer on Oculus experiences

The two-minute trailer for A Mirror For Remembering was featured on the official Oculus Experiences platform in July 2020, giving the project a prominent public-facing VR context beyond its own website. The trailer introduced audiences to May’s immersive work through a short 3D and 360-degree extract designed for headset-based viewing.

That mattered because A Mirror For Remembering is a work about the long-term care, survival, and legibility of digital artefacts, yet it also depends on the changing ecosystems through which digital work is encountered. Its presence on Oculus Experiences placed the project inside a major consumer VR platform while still pointing back to the artwork’s deeper concerns: museum collections, preservation infrastructure, and the fragile conditions that allow digital objects to remain accessible.

For May, the trailer offered a concise way into a more complex work. The full piece moves through scanned museum objects, storage media, and virtual environments to ask what it means to preserve culture when the objects in question are themselves unstable digital forms. The Oculus feature widened access to that conversation while showing how distribution platforms also shape the life of an artwork over time.