Jon Weinbren

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• University of Surrey and The Centre for Creative Arts and Technologies (C-CATS), Film and Animation and Digital Arts, Programme Director and Founding Director

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2022

  Jon Weinbren is Programme Director for Film, Animation and Digital Arts at the University of Surrey, and Founding Director of the Centre for Creative Arts and Technologies. Jon previously setup and ran the Games Department at the UK’s National Film and Television School, and brings many years of experience as a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and director with credits in film, television, animation, VFX, games, commercials, promos and digital arts projects. Jon’s current practice research includes emotion portrayal in autonomous virtual actors, virtual production, machine-learning assisted film production, digital performance, and various other areas where different live, recorded and synthetised media forms collide and coalesce.