DDM Speakers: Reconnecting With Reality Through Immersive Art
Dr. Desnoyers-Stewart will cover creative approaches to design, rethinking the role of immersive art and technology, and how artists can contribute to a better future by reshaping our relationship with technology.
Dr. John Desnoyers-Stewart will talk about his immersive art practice and how we can use technology designed to create artificial realities to deepen our connection to our physical surroundings. He will discuss how artistic practice is vital to innovation and how intuitive exploration can take us to unexpected places by breaking free of our assumptions. Drawing on his practice-based research—From dancing in the streets of Barcelona to creating educational installations about the cosmos—Dr. Desnoyers-Stewart will cover creative approaches to design, rethinking the role of immersive art and technology, and how artists can contribute to a better future by reshaping our relationship with technology.
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.