Maria Lantin

Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:

• Emily Carr University of Art and Design, _Director

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2020

  Maria Lantin is the Director of the Basically Good Media Lab at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. She has a deep interest in space and movement both physical and metaphorical, and this is woven through her work in immersive media and interaction. She takes pleasure in scanning the technological horizon for trends in human fascination – what is grabbing our attention and why. Formative experiences include a BSc and PhD in Computing Science (Dalhousie University and Simon Fraser University), a wonderful stint at Mainframe Entertainment working on the first ever stereoscopic animation for the IMAX screen (it never made it to the screen but it was amazing), three fantastic years at the ground-breaking Banff New Media Institute’s Advanced Art and Technology (A.R.T) labs, and now heading into thirteen years at Emily Carr University.

  ISEA2019

  Maria Lantin is a media artist and the Director of the Basically Good Media Lab at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada. Her work is informed by a desire to rethink digital beauty and the path to the aesthetic experience of being in the forest, of performing together, of being, witnessing, and remembering together. Formative experiences include a BSc and PhD in Computing Science (Dalhousie University and Simon Fraser University), a wonderful stint at Mainframe Entertainment working on the first ever stereoscopic animation for the IMAX screen, three fantastic years at the ground-breaking Banff New Media Institutes Advanced Art and Technology (A.R.T) labs, and now heading into thirteen years at Emily Carr.

  ISEA2015

  Dr Maria Lantin is Director of Research and the Stereoscopic 3D Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Canada) . She is interested in the embodied experience of media through the design of installations and technologies that focus on the interplay of immersion and awareness. She is currently with virtual reality and motion capture technologies to study the role of physicality and movement in immersion.

Website:

• https://marialantin.com/

Last Known Location:

• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada