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Sandra Rodriguez (she/her)

Creative Director/Producer XR+AI, Freelance artist + former lecturer at MIT HackingXR

Best VR Leipzig, Best VR Numix, UNVR, and a prestigious Golden Nica at Ars Electronica). Her recent work spans to machine-learning, image generation and language modelling, diverting AI tools from intended uses and adapting it to live performance, multi-user games, museal installations and large scale exhibits. Rodriguez is a Sundance StoryLab Fellow, a Sundance and MacActhur Foundation Non-Fiction Grantee, and was juror at Tribeca. Between 2017-2022, she was lead of the “HackingXR” program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT's first course on immersive media production. She creates unique experiences that include the public of today, in reshaping the futures that will affect them tomorrow.