XRtist and researcher, her focus lies on human-machine co-creation in expanded realities. Currently she works as a researcher at the Bridge2AI Project about voice AI (National Institute of Health, Simon Fraser University and University of Montreal).... Read More
András Szabó (HU) is a computer scientist and creative technologist, managing director of Code and Soda Ltd, a Budapest-based software development house, and co-founder of Random Error Studio, a Budapest-based production studio. Co-curator of Vektor,... Read More
McNitt is a writer and director. She is a 2018 Emmy® Awards Finalist and the recipient of the VR Grand Prize at The Venice Film Festival. Her work has been described by the New York Times as “beautiful and surprising.” She explores the cosmic... Read More
Dime's journey as a storyteller starts with a degree in Multimedia, which was followed by his work for several years in the field of animation and interactive storytelling. After that, he finished his master degree as part of the Erasmus Joint Master... Read More
Fabienne Giezendanner is an author and director. She writes and creates tradi1onal animated short films and interac1ve and immersive experience.. Since 2016, she has brought together fiction and interactivity with virtual reality, including... Read More
A young artist from Taiwan who poses questions about the relationship between visual art, and architecture. Fascinated by supernatural beings, his works reflect social phenomena and the mystery of life. HSIEH injected himself into works of art, that... Read More
Rebecca has created digital dance experiences with her company Pell Ensemble since 2014 in the UK and abroad. Her work uses interactive and immersive technologies combined with dance. This has looked like audiences on tablets changing dance, sound... Read More
PING YING is an accomplished editor whose diverse portfolio includes VR experiences, series, short films, advertisements, and music videos. She has received international film festival recognition, notably for the "Just For You" trilogy, "Afterimage... Read More
Johanna Courtney, from South London, is a freelance marketing consultant and avid runner. After trying for a decade to start a family with her husband Paul, she's embracing her 'Plan B' and is passionate about breaking the miscarriage taboo. Read More
Yvette Granata is a media artist & filmmaker. She creates immersive installations, video art, and VR films. She is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the department of Film, Television and Media & the Digital Studies Institute. Read More
Born in 1993 in Poland, raised in a mountain village. He combines his experience from rural work with science and new technologies. Master’s Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (specialization in animation and photography). PhD in New Media... Read More
Anne McKinnon is CEO and cofounder of Ristband, an award-winning company using game engines, VR, AI, and cutting edge technology to transform live and online experiences. Her team won the SXSW Audience Award in 2023 for their Future x Music event and... Read More
Roman Rappak is cofounder of Ristband, an award-winning company using game engines, VR, AI, and cutting edge technology to transform live and online experiences. He also tours with his band Pivots and performs mixed reality concerts and AV sets as... Read More
Sophia Bulgakova is a Ukrainian ArtScientist, interdisciplinary artist, and activist currently based in The Netherlands. She combines art, technology, and contemporary social structures, exploring cultural identities, perception, and imagination... Read More
Founded in 2010 by Taiwanese choreographer Hsiao-mei HO, a renowned expert in creating surreal images. MeimageDance’s works feature a strong visual and cultural style. Recent work 'renaissance of its ashes'(2019) reflects the life and death of all... Read More
Clemence Debaig is a dance artist and creative technologist. She is the Artistic Director of Unwired Dance Theatre and runs Unwired Studio. Recent collaborations include Pell Ensemble, Alexander Whitely Dance Company, Mavin Khoo, and Bedford Creative... Read More
Passionate about video games and other worlds Broadly focused on game development with Unity/Unreal Final-year student of Social Informatics at AGH Kraków Read More
Lilian Hess is an artist, director, and producer working between Berlin and London. A graduate of the esteemed Goldsmiths University, she holds a BA in Modern Literature and an MFA in Screen Documentary. Her diverse body of work spans film,... Read More
Born in London, Antony started performing dance in works by Royston Maldoom (Overture 2012) and Rosemary Lee (Common Dance) as part of the Dance Umbrella festival. They then went on to train at the Centre for Advanced Training/Shift dance company and... Read More
Philosopher and cultural studies scholar, head of EduVRLab virtual reality research laboratory at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In her work she combines the artistic aspect with research in the fields of philosophy, cognitive... Read More
Isabelle Andreani is an author and director of fiction, especially in immersive technologies. She took her first steps in VR with a specific and expert hands-on VR workshop with XR artist Sutu and Director Paisley Smith in 2019 - acquiring a... Read More
Creative Producer of immersive technology projects, with specialist focus on work at the intersection of art and science communication. Experience: Immersive Producer with Visualise, the UK’s specialist immersive content agency Producer for... Read More
I am a disabled new media artist from Wathaurong country working in immersive/XR. Often in collaboration with Emma Roberts, my practice seeks to use emerging technologies to expand perceptions, reawaken curiosity and instill a sense of wonder to the... Read More
Tara Baoth Mooney is an interdisciplinary artist who responds to events past and present that explore lived experience and the inter-relationship of people with daily ritual, plants, nonhuman life forms and objects within their respective ecologies... Read More
After I Saw The Future (2017) and Recoding Entropia (2020), François Vautier returns to the Venice Film Festival for the third time with Champ de Bataille (2024). In this new opus, the director has experimented with live action VR to look at the... Read More
Dime's journey as a storyteller starts with a degree in Multimedia, which was followed by his work for several years in the field of animation and interactive storytelling. After that, he finished his master degree as part of the Erasmus Joint Master... Read More
Fabienne Giezendanner is an author and director. She writes and creates tradi1onal animated short films and interac1ve and immersive experience.. Since 2016, she has brought together fiction and interactivity with virtual reality, including... Read More
A young artist from Taiwan who poses questions about the relationship between visual art, and architecture. Fascinated by supernatural beings, his works reflect social phenomena and the mystery of life. HSIEH injected himself into works of art, that... Read More
Rebecca has created digital dance experiences with her company Pell Ensemble since 2014 in the UK and abroad. Her work uses interactive and immersive technologies combined with dance. This has looked like audiences on tablets changing dance, sound... Read More
PING YING is an accomplished editor whose diverse portfolio includes VR experiences, series, short films, advertisements, and music videos. She has received international film festival recognition, notably for the "Just For You" trilogy, "Afterimage... Read More
Johanna Courtney, from South London, is a freelance marketing consultant and avid runner. After trying for a decade to start a family with her husband Paul, she's embracing her 'Plan B' and is passionate about breaking the miscarriage taboo. Read More
Yvette Granata is a media artist & filmmaker. She creates immersive installations, video art, and VR films. She is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the department of Film, Television and Media & the Digital Studies Institute. Read More
Born in 1993 in Poland, raised in a mountain village. He combines his experience from rural work with science and new technologies. Master’s Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (specialization in animation and photography). PhD in New Media... Read More
Anne McKinnon is CEO and cofounder of Ristband, an award-winning company using game engines, VR, AI, and cutting edge technology to transform live and online experiences. Her team won the SXSW Audience Award in 2023 for their Future x Music event and... Read More
Roman Rappak is cofounder of Ristband, an award-winning company using game engines, VR, AI, and cutting edge technology to transform live and online experiences. He also tours with his band Pivots and performs mixed reality concerts and AV sets as... Read More
Sophia Bulgakova is a Ukrainian ArtScientist, interdisciplinary artist, and activist currently based in The Netherlands. She combines art, technology, and contemporary social structures, exploring cultural identities, perception, and imagination... Read More
Founded in 2010 by Taiwanese choreographer Hsiao-mei HO, a renowned expert in creating surreal images. MeimageDance’s works feature a strong visual and cultural style. Recent work 'renaissance of its ashes'(2019) reflects the life and death of all... Read More
Clemence Debaig is a dance artist and creative technologist. She is the Artistic Director of Unwired Dance Theatre and runs Unwired Studio. Recent collaborations include Pell Ensemble, Alexander Whitely Dance Company, Mavin Khoo, and Bedford Creative... Read More
Passionate about video games and other worlds Broadly focused on game development with Unity/Unreal Final-year student of Social Informatics at AGH Kraków Read More
Lilian Hess is an artist, director, and producer working between Berlin and London. A graduate of the esteemed Goldsmiths University, she holds a BA in Modern Literature and an MFA in Screen Documentary. Her diverse body of work spans film,... Read More
Born in London, Antony started performing dance in works by Royston Maldoom (Overture 2012) and Rosemary Lee (Common Dance) as part of the Dance Umbrella festival. They then went on to train at the Centre for Advanced Training/Shift dance company and... Read More
Philosopher and cultural studies scholar, head of EduVRLab virtual reality research laboratory at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In her work she combines the artistic aspect with research in the fields of philosophy, cognitive... Read More
Isabelle Andreani is an author and director of fiction, especially in immersive technologies. She took her first steps in VR with a specific and expert hands-on VR workshop with XR artist Sutu and Director Paisley Smith in 2019 - acquiring a... Read More
Creative Producer of immersive technology projects, with specialist focus on work at the intersection of art and science communication. Experience: Immersive Producer with Visualise, the UK’s specialist immersive content agency Producer for... Read More
I am a disabled new media artist from Wathaurong country working in immersive/XR. Often in collaboration with Emma Roberts, my practice seeks to use emerging technologies to expand perceptions, reawaken curiosity and instill a sense of wonder to the... Read More
Tara Baoth Mooney is an interdisciplinary artist who responds to events past and present that explore lived experience and the inter-relationship of people with daily ritual, plants, nonhuman life forms and objects within their respective ecologies... Read More
After I Saw The Future (2017) and Recoding Entropia (2020), François Vautier returns to the Venice Film Festival for the third time with Champ de Bataille (2024). In this new opus, the director has experimented with live action VR to look at the... Read More
Dr. Joanna Popinska is an accomplished XR filmmaker, documentarian, and curator who has made a significant impact on the VR industry. Holds a Ph.D. in Film Directing from the Polish National Film School. Her critically acclaimed documentary "The... Read More
Kateřina Svatoňová is a Head of the Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She he has long been involved in media theory, archeology and philosophy of media, parallel history of cinematography and the relationship between... Read More
Sönke Kirchhof is Founder, CEO, Executive Producer and Creative Director of award-winning XR Studio INVR.SPACE GmbH that is one of the leading studios in Europe, established 10 years ago. He studied Political Science at University of Hamburg and Film... Read More
Filmmaker, creative producer, social innovator, teacher. Graduated from the National Film School in Łódź, Program for Creative Producers at Wajda School, and programs: Eurodoc, Berlinale Talents 2020, Young Horizons. Read More
Absolvent magisterského studia na katedře filmové produkce pražské FAMU. Spolupracoval s producentem Čestmírem Kopeckým v jeho produkční společnosti První Veřejnoprávní nebo s festivaly IFFR v Nizozemsku, Praha Febiofest či Ji.hlava. Je producentem... Read More
Ondřej Pultera has more than 15 years of developing software, games, AR and VR applications in Prague and Hamburg. Currently supervising and developing various VR and AR projects in BRAINZ IMMERSIVE. Working with a wide portfolio of clients which... Read More
Ágnes Karolina Bakk, Ph.D., is the head and lead researcher of the Immersion and Interaction Hub at the Innovation Center of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. As a narrative designer, she focuses on immersive theatrical formats,... Read More
After finishing her engineering degree in the field of “digital television” in Austria in 2004 Julia went to Berlin to study at the German Film and Television Academy. During her studies she produced, wrote and directed several film projects, studied... Read More
Dimitar Uzunov is a theatre maker, experience designer and educator. In 2008, he founded the Famille Mundi theatre company in Paris, where he has collaborated with artists from over 20 countries. Famille Mundi, under Dimitar's leadership, has twice... Read More
Dr Selma Rizvić is a Professor of Computer Graphics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo. At the University of Sarajevo, she founded 2004 the Laboratory for Computer Graphics - Sarajevo Graphics Group (SGG). It is a... Read More
Alexander Mettin (born August 25, 1983, in Hamburg) is a distinguished film producer and cultural manager passionate about high-quality art and preserving creative freedom. As a cultural manager, he impacts the cultural scene by ensuring that... Read More
Dr Kata Szita is an assistant professor of multimedia at the School of Communications, Dublin City University, and a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Her research focuses on extended reality experiences and how they... Read More
Mauro Colarieti is a novelist and a second-year PhD student in Learning Sciences & Digital Technologies at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; he’s researching how contemporary story-driven videogames can shape players' perception of... Read More
Yesica Duarte is an artist-researcher in electronic arts, and a developer of extended reality (XR) experiences. She is work as professor of Virtual Reality Experience Design. She graduated in audiovisual production, specializing in spherical video... Read More
Amen Shan is a student at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. As an independent interdisciplinary artist, he works extensively with Narrative Design, Exhibition Design, and multimedia projects based around discovering the past and... Read More
Evan Neiden is the founder of award-winning global theatre company, Candle House Collective. Their original, interactive experiences include the cult-hit telephonic thriller, CLAWS, and the critically-acclaimed epic, Lennox Mutual. Their... Read More
Florian Mundhenke, PD Dr. phil. habil., since 2023 Associate Professor for Media Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Before Associate Professor for Cultural Studies at the Institute for Modern Languages and Cultural Studies... Read More
Lucas Dewulf (Nearly Norman) is the founder of XRT. He is an artist, educator and curator exploring and creating immersive realities. He is developing his artistic practice creating experiences where human connection is central. Key to his work is... Read More
Mariam Natroshvili is an artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is working in collaboration with Detu Jincharadze. Their collaboration began in 2011. The initial works consisted of poetic texts written on the street and various buildings. Since 2018,... Read More
Sofie Mønster (she/her) holds a Master's degree in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from the University of Copenhagen. She has extensive experience across the cultural and theater sectors, as well as in the tech start-up industry. For the... Read More
Maja Friis (she/her) holds a MA in Film Studies from the University of Cph. Friis has worked as a documentary filmmaker, editor, educator, and communicator. She participated in the Venice Biennale College Cinema VR Workshop with the project 'Ice... Read More
Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano (she/her) is a italo-swiss multidisciplinary designer and artist, currently researching in the field of interaction design, post-cyberfeminism and sex work. Ludovica's work is particularly focused on exploring the... Read More
Wiktor Filip Gacparski is a director and creative storyteller with a passion for pushing the boundaries of cinematic narratives through XR technology. With over a decade of experience in film and media, Wiktor specializes in blending traditional... Read More
Tibor Udvari is a creative technologist based in Lausanne, Switzerland, passionate about democratizing access to 3D programming and spatial computing. He graduated with an MA in Media Design from HEAD Geneva in the fall of 2024 and is dedicated to... Read More
Gaëlle is an award winning film and immersive writer, director, producer and works as associate XR programmer at SXSW (’23-’25) Her projects have been in official selection at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and the Venice Biennale. She is a BAFTA... Read More
Monika Górska-Olesińska holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the Jagiellonian University, Poland. Since 2018 she is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Lodz, Poland. Her current research focuses on: critical... Read More
Markéta Magidová is a visual artist and director, working with animated films, digital paintings, and sculptures. In her work, she explores the possibilities of imagination, emotions and gender-influenced experiences. It deals with ways of creating... Read More
I’m obsessed with the interoperability of different disciplines. Since my studies I have been working as a freelance product designer. In the past, I have also had the opportunity to design and experiment with physical objects, which over time has... Read More
Vita Kasapolli is a young artist from Kosovo. She is a digital media student, working with time-based, site-specific works, video installations, photography, public art, and design. She has worked as program coordinator and programmer at Anibar... Read More
I am an artistic researcher primarily focused on performing and digital art. The main area of my research revolves around nonhuman actors and how we can work with them in performing art using digital technologies. I am interested in speculating about... Read More
Puneet Jain is an Indian engineer/artist working at the intersection of HCI, XR, Critical Design, and Disability Studies. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada under the supervision of Artist/Researcher Dr. Chris... Read More
Weronika M. Lewandowska – Coordinator of DOK Exchange XR (DOK Leipzig). Expert in the Committee for Innovative Film Projects at the Polish Film Institute (PISF, 2021), mentor for the Climate Challenge XR for the European Space Agency (2023). Juror in... Read More
She has been exploring the relationship between visual arts and literature for over twenty years, working as an artist, curator, and academic. Currently, she serves as an associate professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at Izmir... Read More
With over 10 years of experience in the audiovisual festival industry, Wan-Chen has worked across international film festivals in Asia and Europe, gaining a deep understanding of the festival ecosystem. Recently, she has shifted her focus to XR... Read More
Gala has worked with a number of cultural organisations and film festivals as a programmer and event coordinator. At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, she has for several years been a film programer for VR works and the famous WTF... Read More
Sophia Reiterer, born in 1996 in Merano, has been living in Salzburg since the autumn of 2015. Currently, Sophia is working on her doctoral thesis on the representation of bodies in podcasts. Her research focuses on Gender Studies, Cultural Studies,... Read More
Sana Akram is a Pakistani urbanist, media maker and a Fulbright alum based in Toronto, Canada. In 2020, she graduated with a MS in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design, The New School, where she diversified her research-practice... Read More
Dr. Hartmut Koenitz is a scholar, designer, and artist. His research is concerned with the theory, practice, education, and societal impact of interactive narratives and game. Currently, he focuses on ethical aspects and decolonial perspectives, and... Read More
Giorgio Chiappa (he/him/his) is a Berlin-based researcher and educator whose work explores the dynamic intersection of narratology, video games, and urbanism. He holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Milan and has... Read More
Sophie Crockett is a producer at Crossover Labs specialising in the production and exhibition of immersive art. Sophie has curated and presented immersive and interactive exhibitions for festivals worldwide including, Bergen International Film... Read More
Curator of the Immersive Films Competition at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival in Prague. Read More
Marta Szarzyńska is the CEO and producer at Kinhouse Studio and a producer at Watchout Studio. She made her feature film debut with Songs About Love by Tomasz Habowski, which premiered in 2021 at the Gdynia Film Festival, where it won the Microbudget... Read More
Art Director, Animator, and New Media specialist, co-founder of the artistic collective dziennik.com and Kinhouse Studio. With a background as a graphic design teacher at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design. Since 2007, a freelance... Read More
Laurien Michiels is a digital creative from Belgium who pursued a master’s in Literature and Linguistics (English & Scandinavian Studies) at Ghent University, Belgium and second master in Digital Narratives at the International Filmschool in Cologne,... Read More
Krzysztof Pijarski is a visual artist/researcher/educator/translator. He is associate professor at the School of Form / SWPS University, and the Film School in Łódź, where he founded and co-directs the Visual Narratives Laboratory... Read More
Du Zhang is a designer and research fellow specializing in mixed reality spatial experience design. She obtained Master degree in Spatial Strategies in Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Germany, and now continues her practice and... Read More
Kristof Timmerman is a designer and director specialized in performances and installations, focusing on live, interactive digital environments and virtual reality. He has collaborated with various theater companies. In 2006, he established the... Read More
An award-winning writer/director Morrison has worked on more than 200 projects across VR/video games/film/theater/circus frequently working in the immersive space. He's worked with/on Cirque du Soleil, AAA games, metaverse gaming activations for P&G,... Read More
Tom C. Hall is an award-winning producer and virtual-reality filmmaker. He creatively produced The Choice, a VR documentary which won the Audience Award at SXSW 2022, Best Experience at Games For Change 2022 and was nominated for a Canadian Screen... Read More
Wren Mack (they/them) is an actor, writer, and voiceover artist based in New York City, currently appearing as CSR in Candle House Collective’s Lennox Mutual. Wren recently appeared in Houseworld’s Bottom of the Ocean, as Valentina in indie short... Read More
Dr. Monika Masłoń (born 1982) - visual artist and art educator. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and Ph.D. studies at the Film School in Łódź. She is a lecturer at the Institute of Art Education at the University of Leipzig. In... Read More
Philipp Wenning has a background in traditional, experimental cinema and has worked in the field of immersive media for 10+ years. He has worked on a multitude of (award-winning) projects and a wide range of clients, from technological research, 360°... Read More
a background in psychology, my work is dedicated to exploring the cognitive and social dimensions of extended realities (XR). I thrive on constructing evidence-based approaches for XR interventions, particularly in education and psychology contexts.... Read More
Julie is a visionary consultant with over a decade of experience in merging marketing with cutting-edge media technologies, driving innovation in XR and Web3 experiences. As a pioneer in the field, she co-founded one of the first VR arcades in the... Read More
Choreographer, performer and teacher for 25 years, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage has created a repertoire of more than ten works, including installations, in situ performances, architectural projections and a virtual reality film. Her work has been... Read More
Lucas is an independent inventor creating bleeding-edge tech projects that show us what the future can look like. With hundreds of millions of views as well as several global innovation awards, Lucas’s groundbreaking mix of engineering, comedy &... Read More