“Bilingual Dinosaurs!,” a play produced by Michael Mares Mendoza (journalism ‘96 and M.S. ‘22) and directed by Celeste Guzman Mendoza, blends augmented reality with oral storytelling to explore how migration shapes culture and memory. Advertisement“In contrast to a play where the characters are in dialogue with one another and there’s conflict … this is not that type of play,” Celeste said. Using augzoo, a location-based augmented reality platform he founded, Michael filmed the 3D-animated dinosaurs across Big Bend National Park. Environmental shifts, resource scarcity and survival instincts shaped their movement, much like the forces driving human migration now, Celeste said.