Matt Miesnieks, Chloé Desaulles, Mark Wendell, Andrés Cuervo, Emmy Schwab

We're looking forward to returning to Zero Space!

We have 3 speakers lined up and will have announcements from NYC-based artists and organizers. Hope to see you!

!! I'll be sending an event Zoom link to people who've RSVPed on August 3rd. !!

**Matt Miesnieks, Founder and CEO, LivingCities.xyz**
Matt is renowned as one of the AR industry's thought leaders through his influential blog posts. He is the founder & CEO of LivingCities.xyz a new metaverse startup. He was co-founder & CEO of 6D.ai, the leading AR Cloud platform, which was his 3rd AR startup and was acquired by Niantic (Pokemon Go). He also helped found SuperVentures (investing in AR), built AR system prototypes at Samsung, and had a long executive and technical career in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR way back in 2009.
livingcities.xyz

Mark Wendell, Director, Experience Design Studio, Meow Wolf
With a long career in visual effects and animation on franchises such as Shrek, Star Trek, and Harry Potter, Mark made the jump to emerging technologies and now spends time exploring the boundaries between art, science, and technology. He’s worked as a CG Supervisor, digital artist and photographer, creative technologist, volumetric video film maker, XR specialist, and explorer of the multiverse. After building a world-class innovation lab for WarnerMedia in Manhattan, Mark now works as the director for the Experience Design Studio at Meow Wolf, building future-forward prototypes for artful mixed-reality installations.
meowwolf.com

Chloé Desaulles, Computational Artist/Creative Technologist, NY Times R & D
Chloé Desaulles is a NYC-based, Alsatian-raised computational filmmaker and researcher. Her practice is often drawn towards how emerging technologies can be used, with all their advantages and inevitable faults, to tell intentional stories about people. She holds an Interdisciplinary degree in Neuroscience and Electronic Media Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, and has since then specialized in digital creative direction for fashion, editorial and tech. She is currently a creative technologist working on concepting and art direction at the New York Times R&D.
chloedesaulles.com

Andrés Cuervo, Lead Maintainer, Hex House
Hex House is a collective art studio & event space for artists of all kinds in East Williamsburg. To learn more check out their Instagram: @hexh0use
https://www.instagram.com/hexh0use

Emmy Schwab, Founding Member, The XR Guild, NYC Chapter
Emmy Schwab (they/them) is a founding member of the local NYC chapter of the XR Guild. The XR Guild is a collection of conscientious artists, designers, developers, researchers, product managers, lawyers and business people dedicated to the ethical development of XR, Spatial Computing, web3, the Metaverse (and any other popular names that may arise) for the collective benefit of Humanity.
Emmy will share information about the NYC chapter of the Guild.
https://www.xrguild.org