Dr Julia Scott-Stevenson is lead researcher on MIT Open Documentary Lab’s R&D partnership with IDFA DocLab, and a steward of the ODL-led Independent XR Distribution Coalition. She authored the 2024 R&D report on ‘Embodiment, AI and the perception of the real,’ and continues as lead researcher in the current MITxIDFA investigation into XR distribution.
Julia is a researcher and maker of interactive and immersive media. As a University of Technology Sydney Chancellor’s Research Fellow, she uses practice-led research to explore how immersive media can address the climate crisis. For this research, Julia directed the collaborative, generative-AI-based screen experience Collective Visions, and her current XR project Future Echoes explores how mixed reality can embed audiences in their environments and encourage embodied interaction.
Julia was creative producer of ‘Privy To’, an XR project exploring privacy rights, which was one of 14 projects globally showcased at CPH:DOX’s 2021 Inter:Active Exhibition. She holds a PhD in interactive documentary and social impact, and has taught, mentored and given talks on XR, nonfiction media and AI internationally.