Kevin Peter He is a New York-born, Shanghai-raised artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His practice bridges film, live performance, and game engines to craft expressive live cinematic experiences. Blurring the boundaries between spectatorship and interaction, his narratives take shape as audiovisual performances, interactive films, and extended reality (XR) installations, centered around the filmic gaze. Drawing inspiration from cinema and technology, Kevin’s work creates magical realist worlds that explore the interplay between technological progress and the human psyche. As the former creative director of the mixed reality studio ZeroSpace, Kevin has collaborated with global brands including Nike, Cartier, Disney ...

Will Freudenheim is a game designer and researcher based in New York. His work focuses on creating experimental games and virtual environments that bring together human, artificial, and biological participants. His projects cultivate shared digital worlds as experimental spaces for play, collaboration, and knowledge production. In 2021, he co-founded Laser Days, a worldbuilding studio where he currently works as a director and animation systems designer. At Laser Days, he has directed films, live performances, and installations that have premiered globally. Will is the co-editor of Interplay (2024), a book of essays which investigates the practice of using game engines to ...

Kent Larson is an architect, MIT Professor of the Practice, director of City Science at the MIT Media Lab, and co-director of the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities based in Madrid. His research is focused on urban and architectural design, urban modeling and simulation, transformable micro-housing, living laboratories, ultralight autonomous mobility, and algorithmic dynamic zoning. Larson received 10-Year Impact Awards from Ubicomp in 2017 and 2019 for recognition of work that, with the test of time, has had the greatest impact.