Our team would be grateful for donations in various forms.
We feel blessed to co-create this project over many years, and explore and offer the ’embodied education’ grassroots-style.

Donations can be for instance:
– spaces and events to offer the SEAing Breath experience
– help to promote the project and its content (ocean health, breathing techniques, embodied education and more)
– financial donations
– software development (we are happy to expand our team)
– hardware for mobile VR sets: Google Pixel phone & DayDream VR (used, too)
– connecting us with schools, universities, organizations anywhere
– volunteering to set up VR experiences at museums, outreach and more
– kind emails (we love feedback and communication) and connections to peers

Donations will help to inform about sea level rise to many more people.

The project needs more devices. We will also constantly update the VR experience e.g. with added interviews with scientists and peers to offer the latest research in an accessible and fun format.

(any non-financial donation will be matched in value for amounts below:)
Donations up to $100 will receive a personal creative Thank you note by one of our team members.
$250-500 donations will receive a unique photo from the “up…up…up…up…” series by team member hannes bend (see an example here).
Donations $500-1,999 will receive a unique drawing by a team member.
Donations $2,000-4,999 will receive a full set of VR experience (hardware and software).
Donations $5,000-10,999 will receive a unique VR experience with their name, logo or (if feasible) image in the VR environment. Also a constant sponsorship opportunity (for instance adding your support in the beach shack).
Donations $11,000+ can discuss how ‘personalized’ the program can become, for instance with added sea creatures, logo, voiceover etc etc. Let’s cocreate!

Thank you!

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PLEASE CONTACT OUR TEAM AT SEAINGBREATH@GMAIL.COM FOR ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND INFORMATION. WE ARE HAPPY TO OFFER THE EXPERIENCE.

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New article in the Miami Herald from January 28, 2018 featuring SEAing Breath!

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article197105134.html

“The SEAing Breath immersive virtual reality experience by HANNES BEND and colleagues incorporates bio-feedback breath monitoring, scientific presentations and cartoon animation to deliver an intimate experience of life underwater and of our imperiled geography. Several institutions have showcased it already; a schedule of 2018 showings has yet to be announced.

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January 13, 2017, SEAing Breath will be presented at Pérez Art Museum Miami:
Where: 1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

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Thursday, December 14 from 7pm-1am, @seaingbreath will present at we re/IMAGINE in NY. All ticket profits will be donated to @nokidhungry , a national nonprofit that is working to end child hunger in America. Find more info at www.nokidhungry.org Event page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagine-holiday-benefit-for-no-kid-hungry-tickets-40045906384

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This Sunday Dec 10 from 10-5pm At Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. Sea you then! 1101 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132 Footage from the event: A brief interview with visitors:
https://youtu.be/4jWlAq-Gnv8 and
https://youtu.be/pKrsmEHzh_o Images:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bck6OTlAaia/?taken-by=seaingbreath

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New Article on Sea Level Rise program in The Art Newspaper on SEAing Breath: “…SEAing Breath, meanwhile, is a virtual reality work. With children and families in mind, … created a video game-like, underwater environment. “When you start to breath in or breath out more quickly, it impacts your environment, so the sea levels change based on your biomorphics,” Sanfilippo explains. Despite climate change being literally at the doorsteps of those living in Miami Beach, Sanfilippo feels that much remains to be done in reaching out to local communities. Her priority, she says, is putting work in high-profile places “and trying to get it out of the echo chambers as much as possible”. http://theartnewspaper.com/feature/as-waters-rise-artists-answer-a-call-to-action

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Busy week in NY: 9/21 Thursday at WITMALIVE at NeueHouse 110 East 25th Street New York, NY 10010 Info here 9/21 Thursday night also for World Peace Day / International Day of Peace event from Peace Accelerators at Brooklyn Mirage until 3:30 am Info here 9/23 and 9/24 at World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th St, Corona, NY 11368 Info here https://makerfaire.com/new-york/ Win a free ticket by messaging us @seaingbreath@gmail.com or @SEAing Breath at Insta/Facebook: Why do we all win when nature wins?

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!Postponed due to hurricane Irma. Please check in for updates about PAMM and Miami CAD presentations below soon. Wishing everybody in Florida to be safe!
New presentations soon at PAMM and again at Miami CAD:
Pérez Art Museum Miami:
Thursday, September 7: 11am-2pm during MADE at PAMM
Thursday, September 7: 5-9pm during PAMM Community Night
Saturday, September 9: 10am-1pm during Art + Hack + Data Symposium
Saturday, September 9 1-4pm during Second Saturday
Where: 1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

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Miami Center for Architecture & Design in Downtown Miami. http://miamicad.org/
Sept 8-10
Where: 100 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33132

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Event on August 16, 2017 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
We are thrilled and looking flow-ward to present SEAing Breath during Blue Mind Life: The Seven Ages of Water by “Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, author of New York Times bestseller “Blue Mind,” who reveals this neuropsychological connection between water and people.”
At Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
1101 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
http://www.frostscience.org/event/blue-mind-life-seven-ages-water/

Sea you there!

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July 21:
Our Facebook page is up! Embodied learning in the virtual…
https://www.facebook.com/SEAingBreathNow/

July 21:
Miami-Dade County website with a new event for SEAing Breath at Frost Science Museum on August 16. Stay tuned!
http://www.miamidadepublicart.org/#news/4664

July 18:
New dates confirmed!
Pérez Art Museum Miami:
Thursday, September 7: 11am-2pm during MADE at PAMM
Thursday, September 7: 5-9pm during PAMM Community Night
Saturday, September 9: 10am-1pm during Art + Hack + Data Symposium
Saturday, September 9 1-4pm during Second Saturday

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens:
Tuesday, July 19 for the event A century of sea level rise

June 26 New trailer out! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7BjdzJkduQ?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0&w=560&h=315]

June 19 Until June 30 at Miami Center for Architecture & Design for free. Mon – Fri 10am-5pm at 100 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33132

June 7 Fun and free first experience of your breath in VR at HistoryMiami Museum this Sat, June 10, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Free Family Fun Day: Stormy Seasons Saturday http://www.historymiami.org/event/free-family-fun-day-stormy-seasons/ Where: 101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130

And the next week at Zoo Miami: June 11 to 18 near the Whale sculpture Where: 12400 SW 152nd St, Miami, FL 33177

June 7 Following on Instagram @seaingbreath ! https://www.instagram.com/seaingbreath/

June 7 New Interviews with locals, marine experts and scientists on SEAing Breath YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uZcpIFgqiHbkLohIGdMxg

Watch University of Miami scientist Galen Treuer explain Sea Level Rise and recent highschool graduate Delaney Reynolds inspiring talk about addressing the General Assembly and influencing local and global politics!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRztrgbhgcE&w=1280&h=720] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B-Ipm5pUnY&w=1280&h=720]

June 6 New updates for underwater scene

June 2 New underwater scenes

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-_3N_6C72w&w=1280&h=720][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvLRMjmd68&w=1280&h=720]

May 16 Simple set up for VR installation will include mobile VR headset (grey), swim belt with breath sensing (orange/yellow), and seashell (with speaker).

May 12 Demo of swim belt breath sensor. The sensor is connected to the swim belt and detecting depth of breaths. The visualization program shows breathing patterns as colors and graphs. The breathing sensor will be integrated in the VR experience soon.

May 5 New progress on non-invasive sensing of breathing patterns. Working now on combining with easy set up (swim belt) and VR program: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxPnlQatrE&w=1280&h=720]

May 3 Tests of breath biofeedback. The interaction with a ‘crab’ is programmed using the Unity game development platform:  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHNSJfaKzJY&w=1280&h=720]

April 26 Tests for breath sensor interaction in ‘Miami Beach.’ Soap bubbles are expanding with deeper breaths. For final program water levels will be in-sync with breath, too:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7YIz3vcI6Q&w=1280&h=720]

April 26 Screenshots of virtual reality ‘Miami Beach’ and underwater environment, created using Unity:

April 26 First experiments with an air flow sensor and the My Signals e-health platform. The first draft for a mobile Virtual Reality headset included the air flow as breath sensor here. It is intended to be integrated in a wearable mask to see and breath:

April 25 Sketches of ‘Miami Beach’ in virtual reality:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLg2HEOrIvo&w=1280&h=720][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_fnicIXIoI&w=1280&h=720]

April 25 Sketches for ‘virtual ‘corals’ using a 3D drawing program: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OFL4rBsIcQ&w=1280&h=720]

April 25 Sketches for ‘virtual ‘corals’ using a 3D drawing program:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_l-fDeLpX0&w=1280&h=720]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_rjadKBgzQ&w=1280&h=720]

Breathing sensor integration into the Unity visualization program:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxqCoNjQRI&w=1280&h=720]

April 25 Sketches of the Miami skyline using a virtual reality drawing program:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPOfyZvyKM&w=1280&h=720]

April 25, 2017 A few drawings and storyboards for the virtual reality experience. A beach environment, an underwater experience, seashell and an interaction with a crab to lower sea levels:

SEAing Breath offers an art/science virtual reality experience with breath biofeedback, also part of the SEA LEVEL RISE Program by Miami-Dade County and the University of Miami.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7BjdzJkduQ?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0&w=560&h=315]

SEAing Breath offers a game-like embodied educational experience about sea level rise, climate change and breathing techniques.

The users can sense how virtual environments become adaptive to breathing.

The breath is in-sync with ‘sea creatures’ to learn about sea level rise and more.

SEAing Breath also includes interviews with scientists from the University of Miami, local organizations and activists who just addressed the UN. Interviewees share their successful engagements, resources and provide tips how to become engaged for change.

SEAing Breath has been presented at museums, such as Frost Science Museum, Vizcaya Museum and HistoryMiami Museum, and other public venues at public events with thousands of attendees all ages and backgrounds for free. It will further provide the opportunity to access the latest technology, scientific research and health-improving breathing techniques in public venues at no cost.

Upcoming venues include Miami Light Project, Pérez Art Museum Miami, schools and universities to truly enact social justice, environmental engagements and change: by making technology and science embodied accessible for all for free!

The SEAing Breath project merges modern technology and the user’s experience to learn about the beautiful Atlantic Ocean in a somatic (embodied) way.
Recent research suggests that embodiment of information (via movement and gestures) can improve our cognitive abilities.*

We believe the embodied and immersive VR with biofeedback experience can result in more environmental and personal internal awareness, and actions to support wellbeing of ocean, people and planet. – Our team

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*Skulmowski (2017): Measuring cognitive load in embodied learning;
Lindgren (2013): Emboldened by Embodiment; Varela et al. (1991). The embodied mind

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Articles and research on rising sea levels, Miami and more:

“The fight against climate change: four cities leading the way”

New York City, Houston, Miami and San Francisco have all taken steps to mitigate the risks associated with rising sea levels and global temperatures. Are their successes a blueprint for action at the state and local level? by Richard Luscombe in Miami https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jun/12/climate-change-trump-new-york-city-san-francisco-houston-miami

Miami Beach likes to bill itself as a poster child for the effects of climate change. Flooding from each successive year’s King Tides reaches farther inland and affects more homes, businesses and livelihoods, and the waters lap ever higher toward environmentalists’ dire predictions of a 5ft rise in sea levels in south Florida by 2100. So to Philip Levine, the outspoken mayor of the low-lying coastal city, Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Paris agreement was nothing short of “a colossal mistake”.

“It’s a punch in the gut for all of us who on the ground are experiencing this threat first-hand,” said Levine, who has overseen his city’s investment of hundreds of millions of dollars to raise roads and sea defences and install modern and powerful pumping equipment.

“It’s like being on a boat and the next thing you know the entire current has gone against you, but you know you still need to go in the right direction. For all of us who are experiencing climate change and sea level rise, we have no choice but to continue forward.”

Levine was a signatory to the defiant open letter to Trump signed by more than 1,200 mayors, governors and education and business leaders pledging to abide by the terms of the Paris accord, and has promised to press ahead with Miami Beach’s ambitious works programme.

With partners including four south Florida counties who in 2012 formalised their own regional action plan to combat the effects of climate change on their collective population of 6 million, the city’s own efforts pre-date the Trump administration by several years – and will long outlast it, Levine insists. “Our priorities are the low-lying areas of our city, the western part of the island,” he said. “We’re building up those areas, putting in the pumps, and we have seen significant, incredible success. Now we’re going to other parts of our city, other places that are also low lying and we need to raise.”

“The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners”

 

“Miami’s Fight Against Sea Level Rise”

By Amanda Ruggeri

BBC: 4 April 2017 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-miamis-fight-against-sea-level-rise

“One reason is that water levels here are rising especially quickly. The most frequently-used range of estimates puts the likely range between 15-25cm (6-10in) above 1992 levels by 2030, and 79-155cm (31-61in) by 2100. With tides higher than they have been in decades – and far higher than when this swampy, tropical corner of the US began to be drained and built on a century ago – many of south Florida’s drainage systems and seawalls are no longer enough. That means not only more flooding, but challenges for the infrastructure that residents depend on every day, from septic tanks to wells. “The consequences of sea level rise are going to occur way before the high tide reaches your doorstep,” says William Sweet, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The flooding would be a challenge for any community, but it poses particular risks here. One recent report estimated that Miami has the most to lose in terms of financial assets of any coastal city in the world, just above Guangzhou, China and New York City. This 120-mile (193km) corridor running up the coast from Homestead to Jupiter – taking in major cities like Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach – is the eighth most populous metropolitan area in the US. It’s also booming. In 2015, the US Census Bureau found that the population of all three counties here was growing – along with the rest of Florida – at around 8%, roughly twice the pace of the US average.

Recent studies have shown that Florida has more residents at risk from climate change than any other US state.It has more property at risk, too. In Miami-Dade County, developers had 1.6 million sq ft (149,000 sq m) of office space and 1.8 million of retail space under construction in the second quarter of 2016 alone. Sunny Isles Beach, home to 20,300 people, has eight high-rise buildings under construction; swing a seagull in the air, and you’ll hit a crane. As you might imagine, the value of development in this sun-soaked part of the country is high, too. Property in Sunny Isles alone is now worth more than $10 billion. Many of the wealthiest people in the US reside in Florida, including 40 billionaires on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans; on a recent week, the most expensive real estate listing in the US was a $54 million mansion in Palm Beach.”

“High Ground Is Becoming Hot Property as Sea Level Rises

Climate change may now be a part of the gentrification story in Miami real estate”

By Erika Bolstad

Scientific American: May 1, 2017 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-ground-is-becoming-hot-property-as-sea-level-rises/?

“Harewood had a realization, one that he illustrates with his hands. One hand represents the city of Miami Beach. The opposite hand, moving like the incoming tide, demonstrates how the seas will eventually rise, potentially bringing the coastline of South Florida closer to Miami’s historically black neighborhoods — properties like his investments in Liberty City that sit on comparatively higher ground.

“Oh, Miami Beach is going under, the sea level is coming up,” Harewood said. “So now the rich people have to find a place to live. My property is 15 feet above sea level, theirs is what? Three under?

“So OK,” he said, taking on the voice of a rich developer, “let’s knock down the projects, and we move in and push them out.”

“Miami Beach to begin new $100 million flood prevention project in face of sea level rise”

“As sea levels rise, nearly 1.9 million U.S. homes could be underwater by 2100”

By Brady Dennis

Washington Post: August 24, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/24/as-sea-levels-rise-23-states-could-see-nearly-1-9-million-homes-underwater/

“The real estate data firm Zillow recently published a research analysis that estimated rising sea levels could leave nearly 2 million U.S. homes inundated by 2100, a fate that would displace millions of people and result in property losses in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

More than 100,000 of those homes would be in Maryland and Virginia, according to the analysis. Another 140,000 would be submerged in the Carolinas. And Florida would face the gravest scenario of any state, with one in eight properties in danger of being underwater.”

What two meters (around 6.5 feet) of sea level rise would look like in Miami. Areas covered in blue are considered below water level. (Climate Central)

“Scientists say Antarctic melting could double sea level rise. Here’s what that looks like.”

By Angela Fritz

Washington Post: March 30, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/03/30/what-6-feet-of-sea-level-rise-looks-like-for-our-vulnerable-coastal-cities/?utm_term=.c5ba2d16e393

“In a groundbreaking climate change study, scientists have found that by neglecting to include the melting of Antarctica, we have vastly underestimated the potential for sea level rise over the next 80 years — and beyond.

The most widely cited estimate of around three feet by 2100 includes sea level rise from thermal expansion (water expands when it warms) and the melting of smaller glaciers. It includes minimal contributions from Greenland and Antarctica.

Instead, this study published in the journal Nature suggests that we should actually double that forecast when we include melting in Antarctica: approximately six feet of sea level rise by 2100. Just as alarming is the projection that Antarctica by itself could add 50 feet of sea level rise by 2500.”

In the Miami area, the daily high-water mark has been rising almost an inch a year.Illustration by Jacob Escobedo

“THE SIEGE OF MIAMI

As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels.”

“The city of Miami Beach floods on such a predictable basis that if, out of curiosity or sheer perversity, a person wants to she can plan a visit to coincide with an inundation. Knowing the tides would be high around the time of the “super blood moon,” in late September, I arranged to meet up with Hal Wanless, the chairman of the University of Miami’s geological-sciences department. Wanless, who is seventy-three, has spent nearly half a century studying how South Florida came into being. From this, he’s concluded that much of the region may have less than half a century more to go.”

“Goodbye, Miami”

By century’s end, rising sea levels will turn the nation’s urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.

“Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas.”

Rolling Stone: June 20, 2013 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620#ixzz2X0NGzxLY

January 13, 2017, SEAing Breath will be presented at Pérez Art Museum Miami:
Where: 1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

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Thursday, December 14 from 7pm-1am, @seaingbreath will present at we re/IMAGINE in NY. All ticket profits will be donated to @nokidhungry , a national nonprofit that is working to end child hunger in America. Find more info at www.nokidhungry.org Event page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagine-holiday-benefit-for-no-kid-hungry-tickets-40045906384

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This Sunday Dec 10 from 10-5pm At Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. Sea you then! 1101 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

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Busy week in NY:
9/21 Thursday at WITMALIVE at NeueHouse 110 East 25th Street New York, NY 10010 Info here
9/21 Thursday night also for World Peace Day / International Day of Peace event from Peace Accelerators at Brooklyn Mirage until 3:30 am Info here
9/23 and 9/24 at World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th St, Corona, NY 11368
Info here https://makerfaire.com/new-york/
Win a free ticket by messaging us @seaingbreath@gmail.com or @SEAing Breath at Insta/Facebook: Why do we all win when nature wins?

Times and openings to experience SEAing Breath

Pérez Art Museum Miami:
Thursday, September 7: 11am-2pm during MADE at PAMM
Thursday, September 7: 5-9pm during PAMM Community Night
Saturday, September 9: 10am-1pm during Art + Hack + Data Symposium
Saturday, September 9 1-4pm during Second Saturday
Where: 1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

Miami Center for Architecture & Design in Downtown Miami. http://miamicad.org/
Sept 8-10
Where: 100 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33132

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
August 16, 2017 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
1101 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
http://www.frostscience.org/event/blue-mind-life-seven-ages-water/

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens:
July 19 from 7 – 9 PM
Where: 3251 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33129
For the event A century of sea level rise

Please contact us (hannesbend at googlemail[dot]com) or the person listed to reserve the VR experience at your preferred time. 

We are also happy to lend you a VR device for your home, community or work place. 

Soon also at The LAB Miami https://www.thelabmiami.com/

Until June 30 Mon-Fri 10 AM – 5 PM at Miami Center for Architecture & Design in Downtown Miami. http://miamicad.org/ Where: 100 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33132

June 10, 2017 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM at HistoryMiami Museum for the  Free Family Fun Day: Stormy Seasons Saturday http://www.historymiami.org/event/free-family-fun-day-stormy-seasons/ Where: 101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130

June 11 to 18 at Zoo Miami http://www.zoomiami.org/ Where: 12400 SW 152nd St, Miami, FL 33177

Also soon at The LAB Miami Where: 400 NW 26th St, Miami, FL 33127

Maria Mishurenko
Maria Mishurenko is a game developer and experience designer from Brooklyn, NY. In her work she explores new approaches to education in the fields of philosophy and psychology using augmented, virtual and mixed reality. Maria holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and has a background in media production and documentary filmmaking and currently is a graduate student and researcher at NYU Tisch School of Arts, Game Design MFA program. She is also recipient of Next Generation Leaders program, sponsored by International Game Developers Association. www.mishurenko.me

Gordey Chernyy
Gordey Chernyy is an independent visual artist, game developer, live performer and creative technologist, originally from Kazakhstan. Currently he resides in Brooklyn, NY. In his artistic practice he explores intersections of software and art, human-computer interaction and biofeedback. His interests include Eastern philosophy, psychology and generative art. As a creative technologist he creates highly efficient customized tools for animators, visual artists and live performers. Gordey’s client list includes Lauryn Hill, Keurig, Kia, CU Boulder, IBM, Grey advertising, etc. He has a background in visual arts, motion graphics and filmmaking. www.gordich.com

Kyle Wilson
Kyle Wilson is a composer, songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn NY. An alumnus of music programs at Interlochen Arts Academy and New York University, Kyle found his first musical niches in the worlds of orchestral pop and indie-rock as the songwriting front person of the critically acclaimed band Milagres. Client list includes Netflix, The Guardian, The Atlantic. https://kylescottwilson.com/

hannes bend has been merging science, technology with creative and contemplative practices and activism.
hannes bend recently developed one of the first virtual reality (VR) programs with heart rate biofeedback, with researchers while artist-in-residence at the Institute of Neuroscience and Quantum Physics Alemán Lab, at the University of Oregon from 2014-2016. For this project hannes’ team won “Best Presentation Award” at the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Spring Symposia 2016 in the panel “Wellbeing Computing: AI meets Health and Happiness Science” at Stanford University for the paper “Mindful Technologies”
hannes conducted research on meditation and visual stimuli using EEG and fMRI. His practice centers around merging the insights from creative and contemplative practices, technology and science. hannes has presented, published, researched and exhibited projects internationally at museum, conferences and institutions. hannes has been guiding breathing sessions globally, and been working with breathing pioneer Wim Hof for years. www.hannesbend.com

Maria Mishurenko
Maria Mishurenko is a game developer and experience designer from Brooklyn, NY. In her work she explores new approaches to education in the fields of philosophy and psychology using augmented, virtual and mixed reality. Maria holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and has a background in media production and documentary filmmaking and currently is a graduate student and researcher at NYU Tisch School of Arts, Game Design MFA program. She is also recipient of Next Generation Leaders program, sponsored by International Game Developers Association. www.mishurenko.me

Gordey Chernyy
Gordey Chernyy is an independent visual artist, game developer, live performer and creative technologist, originally from Kazakhstan. Currently he resides in Brooklyn, NY. In his artistic practice he explores intersections of software and art, human-computer interaction and biofeedback. His interests include Eastern philosophy, psychology and generative art. As a creative technologist he creates highly efficient customized tools for animators, visual artists and live performers. Gordey’s client list includes Lauryn Hill, Keurig, Kia, CU Boulder, IBM, Grey advertising, etc. He has a background in visual arts, motion graphics and filmmaking. www.gordich.com

Kyle Wilson
Kyle Wilson is a composer, songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn NY. An alumnus of music programs at Interlochen Arts Academy and New York University, Kyle found his first musical niches in the worlds of orchestral pop and indie-rock as the songwriting front person of the critically acclaimed band Milagres. Client list includes Netflix, The Guardian, The Atlantic. https://kylescottwilson.com/

hannes bend has been merging science, technology with creative and contemplative practices and activism.
hannes bend recently developed one of the first virtual reality (VR) programs with heart rate biofeedback, with researchers while artist-in-residence at the Institute of Neuroscience and Quantum Physics Alemán Lab, at the University of Oregon from 2014-2016. For this project hannes’ team won “Best Presentation Award” at the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Spring Symposia 2016 in the panel “Wellbeing Computing: AI meets Health and Happiness Science” at Stanford University for the paper “Mindful Technologies”
hannes conducted research on meditation and visual stimuli using EEG and fMRI. His practice centers around merging the insights from creative and contemplative practices, technology and science. hannes has presented, published, researched and exhibited projects internationally at museum, conferences and institutions. hannes has been guiding breathing sessions globally, and been working with breathing pioneer Wim Hof for years. www.hannesbend.com