Sandra Rodriguez
Sandra Rodriguez PhD, is a creative director and producer of immersive, interactive and AI-driven experiences, as well as and sociologist of new media technology. Her work spanned from film to web-based and new forms of immersive non-fiction, garnering multiple awards (including a Peabody, and the first Golden Nica award offered to a VR experience at Ars Electronica). Her current projects explore the sparks that fly at the crossroads of AI, immersive tools, and human creativity. Rodriguez is a Sundance StoryLab Fellow, a Sundance Institute and MacArthur Grantee and was Lecturer of HackingXR, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's first official course on XR creation.