IXRDC Advisors

An international, interdisciplinary group of cultural leaders and innovators advise and participate in the coalition.

Amy Ashton La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, Producer – Colt Coeur (Board Member) Producer, Curator
Amy Dotson Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow, Director; Tomorrow Theater, Director & Founder; Portland Art Museum, Curator Film & New Media Curator, Exhibitor, Executive, Educator, Writer, Community Organizer
Blake Kammerdiener SXSW – Sr. Manager, Film & TV, XR Programming Curator
Caspar Sonnen Head of New Media at IDFA & Founder/Curator IDFA DocLab Curator
Catherine Allen CEO and lead consultant, Limina Immersive and advisor at Meta’s Reality Labs Researcher, Writer, Executive
Danielle Giroux INREV, Unframed Collection, Eastern CT University Researcher, Educator, Writer, Distributor, Impact Producer, Artist, Other
Ingrid Kopp Electric South, Director of Labs and Partnerships Executive, Producer
Jenna Seiden Chief Business Officer for Arvore Immersive and Feliz & Paul Studios Producer, Executive
Julie Walsh Advisor to MEET DIGITAL CULTURE CENTER (Milan), Digital Art Curator at O Cinema: ART/Film/Experiences, member of AAMC and ICI, co-curator of IDAF (Istanbul) 2023/2024, Co-curator NFT Biennial (Istanbul) 2023, Curator for Feral File (2023), Advisor to Art Consortium (Paris), Art Mentor for WAC, SxSW. Jury member for Lumen Prize, Recto VRso (France), FilmGate Immersive ( Miami). Curator
Liz Rosenthal Curator Venice Immersive, Venice Film Festival, Biennale di Venezia AND Founder & Executive Producer, Power to the Pixel Curator, Producer
Maruša Levstek Research Fellow in Technology & Culture at StoryFutures, Royal Holloway, University of London; User Experience Researcher at CoStar National Lab; Story Associate at AKO Storytelling Institute Researcher, Educator, Writer
Mary Matheson Head of Production, Agog: The Immersive Media Institute Artist, Educator, Funder, Journalist, Producer
Mia Fiorella La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Program (includes festival and stand-alone projects). Director of Experience and Activations Curator, Producer
Michaela Ternasky-Holland Founder – MTH Studio | Guest Curator – Museum of the Moving Image | Member – Onassis ONX | Director – Represented by Gersh Artist, Writer, Other, Exhibitor, Curator
Akmyrat Tuyliyev MIT Open Documentary Lab, Onassis ONX Member, Visiting Professor at ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media Producer, Artist, Educator
Mikael Jakobsson Research Coordinator, MIT Game Lab, MIT Researcher, Educator, Designer
Nina van Doren IDFA DocLab Other, Researcher, Writer
Nonny de la Peña Founding Director, Narrative and Emerging Media at ASU, Founder of Emblematic Group Artist, Executive, Educator
Raul Zbengheci NEW INC, New Museum Curator, Producer, Community Organizer
Rory Mitchell MERCANTILE – Founder Producer, Writer, Artist, Other
Sadah Espii Proctor South Florida PBS Executive, Producer, Designer, Distributor, Curator, Exhibitor
Sandra Gaudenzi University College London (UCL) – Senior Lecturer // + purpose and creativity coach Educator, Researcher
Srushti Kamat Algae Researcher, Funder, Writer, Producer, Distributor, Investor, Philanthropist, Community Organizer, Executive
Verity McIntosh Director and Principal Investigator – Immersive Arts, Associate Professor of Virtual and Extended Realities – University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) Researcher, Educator, Funder, Producer
Wendy Levy Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, Executive Director; Skylight, President Funder, Producer, Curator, Impact Producer, Executive