Immersive Media + Arts for All Showcase: Reception, Presentation & Keynote Address
Immersive Media + Arts for All Showcase: Reception, Presentation & Keynote Address
The Immersive Media + Arts for All Showcase, a weeklong event produced and presented by the University of Maryland’s Immersive Media Design (IMD) program; College of Arts and Humanities; College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences and Arts for All initiative, will host a reception, presentation of work and keynote address by Gabo Arora on April 7, 2022. The reception will be held at 4 p.m. in the Iribe Building Lab 0110 and the keynote will begin at 5:15 p.m. in Iribe Antonov Auditorium.
About the Speaker
Gabo Arora is a world-renowned multi-award winning immersive artist, professor, entrepreneur and former UN diplomat who works with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, including virtual and augmented reality, to tell some of the most important stories of our time. Widely recognized as a pioneer of new documentary formats, his work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been described by the BBC and LA Times, amongst many others, as “game changing”, “powerful, moving and without precedent” and “transcending all the typical barriers of rectangular cinema.” He has designed and led campaigns of significant measurable impact, raising many millions of dollars, for the United Nations, UNICEF, USC Shoah foundation and the Nobel Peace Prize committee. He has had the honor of being the UN’s first-ever Creative Director, a Davos World Economic Forum Arts and Culture Leader, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the Founding Director of a new lab and academic department—the first of its kind—dedicated to Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) at Johns Hopkins University. His creative tech and production studio LIGHTSHED.IO is based in Brooklyn.
The Immersive Media + Arts for All Showcase, a weeklong event produced and presented by the University of Maryland’s Immersive Media Design (IMD) program; College of Arts and Humanities; College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences and Arts for All initiative, will host a reception, presentation of work and keynote address by Gabo Arora on April 7, 2022. The reception will be held at 4 p.m. in the Iribe Building Lab 0110 and the keynote will begin at 5:15 p.m. in Iribe Antonov Auditorium.
About the Speaker
Gabo Arora is a world-renowned multi-award winning immersive artist, professor, entrepreneur and former UN diplomat who works with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, including virtual and augmented reality, to tell some of the most important stories of our time. Widely recognized as a pioneer of new documentary formats, his work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been described by the BBC and LA Times, amongst many others, as “game changing”, “powerful, moving and without precedent” and “transcending all the typical barriers of rectangular cinema.” He has designed and led campaigns of significant measurable impact, raising many millions of dollars, for the United Nations, UNICEF, USC Shoah foundation and the Nobel Peace Prize committee. He has had the honor of being the UN’s first-ever Creative Director, a Davos World Economic Forum Arts and Culture Leader, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the Founding Director of a new lab and academic department—the first of its kind—dedicated to Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) at Johns Hopkins University. His creative tech and production studio LIGHTSHED.IO is based in Brooklyn.
Brendan Iribe Center