Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel

(art)iculating worlds , in p[artnership with Machine Agencies, welcomes Galit Ariel. She is a TechnoFuturist, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures, behaviours and interactions. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality’which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture, body, space and agency.

Her academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology, culture and body politics and imaginaries.She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning), and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog–150 principles for a new direction in tech).

Galit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences, agencies and institutions, such as TED, Bell Labs, SXSW, The European Union, The Next Web, Slush, Fifteen Seconds, FITC, PauseFest, VRARA Global summit, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more.

In this talk, Galit Ariel will discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-realities and surrealities.

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