Plenary Session and Discussion with Bay Backner
"Designing Immersive Digital Experiences and Collaborative Narratives"
Speaker
Bay Backner, Founder, MESHfair, Spain
Moderator
Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks, Illinois, United States
Description
Bay is an artist and producer of collective digital experience. She is founder of MESH, the art fair for 3D, metaverse and VR creators, and co-founder of Vueltta, an international art collective producing immersive installations in the Decentraland metaverse. Bay was the curator of Metaverse Art Week 2023, and is Assistant Professor of Emerging Technologies at Berklee Valencia. Her work has been seen in Vanity Fair, Dazed, Vogue and Architectural Digest, and was recently featured by CNN in their series The Next Frontier.