Speaker
Sandra Rodriguez
Voulez-Vous / MIT
Creative Director / Scholar
Speaker Biography
Sandra Rodriguez PhD, is a creative director/producer of VR,XR,AI experiences, and a sociologist of new media technology. She has worked on interactive, web-based and immersive non-fiction experiences garnering multiple awards (including Peabody, IDFA DocLab; Best VR Leipzig, Best VR Numix, best storytelling UNVR, and a prestigious Golden Nica at Arts Electronica), and now spans her work to live performance, multi-user projection and large scale installations. Rodriguez is a Sundance StoryLab Fellow, a Sundance Institute and MacArthur Grantee and a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where explores AI, VR, and human creativity.