Join Sight and Emerging Tech Expert Samantha Wolfe as she interviews Brandon Powers. In this interview, they discuss Brandon's background in performance and how he has been able to connect this with his love of innovation.
Brandon Powers is a creative director + choreographer who creates experiences across physical and virtual space. Blending his background in contemporary dance, theatre, and immersive technology, his work focuses on capturing liveness in the digital, building interdisciplinary communities, and shifting culture towards a more embodied future. His projects span technologies and forms incorporating AI, extended reality, and live performance including Queerskins: ARK (Venice International Film Festival, Cannes XR), Frankenstein AI (Sundance Film Festival), Duet (New York Live Arts), and Kinetic Diffusion (FilmGate Interactive, New Images). This past year, he created Echoes in Motion, a mixed reality dance experience celebrating the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City. Brandon is the founder of constellation, an immersive strategy and production studio building digital communities and multi-platform experiences for theatrical brands. Brandon is on staff at Musical Theatre Factory, where he leads MTFxR, the USA’s leading program supporting the development of XR musical experiences. He is a Lincoln Center Collider Fellow, Onassis ONX Studio member, NEW INC alum, and has spoken on the intersection of arts and technology across the world at TCG National Conference, Verizon’s 5G Lab, DanceXR Singapore and more.
Brandon Powers website: www.brandon-powers.com
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