Chloé Lee - Director/Producer
Chloé has over a decade of experience producing artistic, film and digital work. Using audiovisual, haptic and extended reality technologies, she explores where digital and analog worlds meet, reflecting on themes of migration through discovery and documentation. As a 2022 Germany Fulbright Scholar,Chloé created the VR project, Temporal World (SXSW 2023). She has been a researcher at Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and in 2023, she co-founded the media production studio, Present Futures.
Daniel Duckworth - AI Expert Advisor
Daniel Duckworth is a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind and a polyglot in all forms of artificial intelligence research. He works at the intersection of research and application, turning emerging technologies into experiences for everyday users. Dan’s work focuses on the deep technical details of 3D reconstruction with neural fields, turning photo collections into explorable 3D spaces. Dan holds bachelor and master degrees from University of California, Berkeley where he studied Electrical Engineering & Computer Science with a focus on artificial intelligence.
Kara Lynch - Project Advisor
kara lynch, a time-based artist, lives en exilio in Indian Territory. Conjuring autonomy for Black and Indigenous people across Diaspora, kara’s art practice is re-memory, vision, and movement. kara completed the MFA in Visual Arts at the UCSD and has been a research fellow at the African Diaspora Studies Department, University of Texas Austin and the Academy of African Studies at Bayreuth University in Germany. kara is an emerit@s Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College, a 2020-22 Tulsa Artist Fellow, host of Blues U, a radiocoyote.org radio show, and a co-shaper of Black August In Motion.
Kiru Mehari - Exhibition Coordinator
Kiru has worked at the intersection of art, music, and technology for the last five years, focusing on design, research, and community building. With a background in photography and design, his interest lies in using media documentation and archival works as tools for community memory and preservation. His previous roles include positions at MUTEK and Water & Music."
Louis Knight-Webb - AI Expert Advisor
Louis is a computer scientist, specialising in AI, specifically NLP. Most recently he cofounded bloop, a Y-Combinator backed startup helping engineers leverage AI to write code. Specific challenges involved training natural language to code search models, prompting GPT-3.5/4, fine-tuning open source models like llama as well as proprietary models like GPT-3.5 and rapid iteration of prototypes of the AI pipeline. As part of his responsibilities at bloop, Louis also led a team of 6 engineers and took a leading role in mentorship, architecture and systems design as well as mentorship.
Lucas Martinic - Lead VR Developer
Lucas is a programmer, musician and creator. From developing games for his sisters at the age of 9, to touring the world with his music project, Trementina, to becoming a VR software engineer, his passion revolves around creating shared experiences for himself and others. While touring with his band Trementina, Lucas tried VR for the first time. He was inspired to move to Berlin where he studied and became a trainer and mentor at XR Bootcamp. Since then, he has worked with Berlin and international start-ups, exploring the intersection of VR and education, and recently, art.
Megan Hattie Stahl - Community Impact Producer
Megan is a documentary artist and educator based between Portland and NYC. She uses audio and new media tools to produce participatory installations and place-based experiences, often investigating musical histories, realities and possibilities. She is an MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College CUNY and has taught in Hunter’s Film department. Megan was a 2022-23 Social Practice CUNY Actionist Fellow. In 2023, Megan developed and led Bronx Audio Tour, an internship for youth that focused on place, audio production and community engagement.
Naz Akgül - Cooperative AI Advisor
With a background in art and designer, she is passionate about creating interactive and immersive experiences that promote inclusivity, accessibility, and a more democratic culture. She values a deep understanding of diverse perspectives. As an AI Prompt Engineer at IU International University of Applied Sciences, she is dedicated to enhancing educational experiences through gamified learning. With a focus on user-centered design, Naz crafts scalable AI bots for the TechEd sector, fostering immersive educational content. Naz aims to leverage AI's power to inspire individuals to think differently and connect meaningfully.
Vladimir Storm - Technical Artist
Vladimir Storm is a visual artist, a volumetric filmmaker and a creative director focused on AR/VR storytelling, immersive spaces and interactive computer graphics. He worked with clients like Microsoft, Netflix, Nike, Valve, HTC, Snapchat, Pussy Riot, etc. Vladimir collaborates with film and game studios, universities and science labs, museums and creative agencies to design unique interactive storytelling, immersive installations, crypto artworks and spatial visual effects. In his art practice Vladimir researches worldwide spiritual diversity and has worked on various immersive art projects in 20+ countries in Asia, Africa, Australia, Northern Europe, Americas, etc. In 2018 Vladimir founded a web3 gaming studio Sirpin in Berlin. http://vladstorm.com