Critically acclaimed performer, author and social engagement artist, RobertFaridKarimi, designs interactive immersive game-performance experiences to spark players to imagine worlds of mutual community nourishment.

Sujin Kim explores poetic cinematic expressions and alternative storytelling in animation, drawing inspiration from historical memories and collective traumas reverberating in the contemporary world.

Nonny de la Peña is the program director of ASU’s Los Angeles-based Center for Emerging Media and Narrative.

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Kristy H.A. Kang is a practice-based researcher whose work navigates the triangulation of place, geographies, and memory. Her projects visualize the cultural histories of cities and communities.

Joseph Orta: XR Creative Developer at Next Labs. 3D artist (Blender), 6 years in Unity game dev. A music lover and avid gamer.

Andrea Benge / ANDiLAND is a multi-media artist who interrogates the gender grotesque through film, animation, performance art and AR/VR technologies.

Zhang's interdisciplinary art and design research investigates A Speculative Assemblage at the intersection of immersive media design, experimental data visualization and interactive AI art.

Charles Eppley (they/he) is an interdisciplinary art historian specializing in sonic art, disability studies, and digital culture.