BRIDGING
WORLDS
Creative Direction| Immersive Experiences| Spatial Events
An international entrepreneur, creative director, and digital media strategist with over 20 years of experience. Directed more than 250 digital, immersive projects, events, pitches, and campaigns. My creative spark is fuelled when incubating novel, cultural, diverse, human-centred experiences at scale, that transport audiences on voyages between realities.
Growing up on the island of Cyprus within Mediterranean and Colombian heritage I am inspired to find ways to bridge cultures together. Driven to create impactful media experiences that celebrate cultural intersectionality and evoke a sense of collective awe, that connects us all.
Currently working on
VR Theater - 2024
My teams and I are celebrating the finest in XR storytelling through the SIGGRAPH 2024 VR Theater, presenting a unique 40-seat, mixed reality experience that reimagines the connection between virtual and physical realities.
Love On a Plate
Love on a plate is an Apple Vision Pro prototype of an immersive, interactive storytelling series that blends cultural storytelling and emerging technologies to craft experiences that are not just seen and heard but felt and lived.
Past Work
Virtual Reality Worlds
Alexandria - Port of Worlds
The official VR world for Cannes XR|NewImages
Creatively led the creation of Alexandria XR, a port for voyages to other realities. The nascent space, named after the vital transit point and cultural centre of the ancient world, was entirely reimagined for the metaverse of tomorrow.
- The world isn’t flat, why should our content be!
Alexandria
Embark on a Journey to Other Realities
Espace-V
A Virtual world for Francophone+ cultures
In close collaboration with the Alliance Française to Vancouver, I creatively led the creation a virtual extension of the institution to enable them in their mission to distribute cultural content, reimagined for the next generation of content.
Recipient of Creative BC Interactive fund 2022
- An ever-changing virtual space dedicated to immersive artworks.
Hybrid Events
SIGGRAPH VR THEATER
A collective space for immersive content
Since 2018, my teams and I have established the SIGGRAPH VR Theater as a landmark program. Over the past five years, we've delivered more than 10,000 VR experiences to an audience exceeding 1,000 attendees annually, as well as introduced the "Best of Immersive" award.
V-Unframed
A hybrid event at the intersection of Art + VR
An established, annual celebration of art and VR hosted by the Alliance Française Vancouver, to showcase curated Immersive works in Virtual Reality. In partnership with Digi BC, VIFF and the Centre for Digital media the experience was anchored digitally in a designed space, to transport the public to different realities.
Arts & Culture
Shakespeare’s FIRST FOLIO
Bringing Shakespeare at the Vancouver Art Gallery
My team, alongside Dr. Patrick Pennefather, collaborated with UBC Libraries and the Vancouver Art Gallery to develop a touch-table version of the First Folio, which was featured at the highly regarded multi-month exhibition.
Recipient of Canadian Media Fund
Interactive tabletop experience. - Upgraded by Emerging Media Labs students
Sustainability & Activations
My City My Environment
One of the largest tech-powered sustainability campaigns
One of the largest tech-driven sustainability campaigns in Dubai, our efforts spanned across various media, from social media initiatives to animations and an interactive iPad wall platform. This comprehensive approach resulted in over 50,000 activations and led to a 70% reduction in recycling pollution in a critical local region!
- Small actions can make a large impact
Dubai Lamp Project
Installed 1 Million energy-efficient lamps
Great projects require many hands and hearts — thank you to everyone who made this possible.