Immersive
Story Telling

TJ Orloski is an artist, community educator, and technologist working in social practice and immersive media. Based in Portland, OR, Orloski creates experiences that illuminate marginalized histories, such as immersive works for the Chinese American community that uncover forgotten immigrant stories. These include a project on Portland’s forcibly disinterred Chinese cemetery Block 14, at Lone Fir, and an installation at the Portland Chinatown Museum exploring the "paper sons" who concealed their identities to labor on vital city infrastructure.

Orloski has also collaborated with CETI on immersive storytelling projects that humanize incarcerated women and highlight the neighborhoods in Portland most affected by climate change.

Beyond local work, Orloski is an active member of FELT Zine, an internet art collective that Forbes Magazine described as “always-in-motion iconoclasts [who] are constantly innovating and creating new ways to perceive reality.” Orloski has participated in secret exhibitions with FELT Zine in Tokyo, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Berlin, and more—attracting curators from MoMA, SFMOMA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Currently, Orloski’s narrative-driven video games explore themes of labor rights, wealth inequality, American Nihilism, evangelical christianity, and the commodification of human life, further expanding their artistic practice into interactive storytelling.