Presenter

Dr. John Desnoyers-Stewart is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Critical Future Studio/Lab. He integrates artistic practice with engineering knowledge to create innovative artworks to connect people and evoke new perspectives on our shared physical reality. He has exhibited his multi-user mixed reality installations, Star-Stuff, Eve 3.0, and more in over 80 exhibitions at art galleries and festivals around the world. Through his art and research, he explores positive social applications of mixed reality, investigating its potential to connect us more deeply to ourselves, each other, and our surrounding physical reality.