Keram Malicki-Sánchez
Keram is the founder and executive director of the VRTO International Symposium on Immersive Media and the FIVARS Festival of Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories. Both ran in WebXR in 2020.
He most recently contributed essays to two books published in 2020: Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology, Edited by Marilene Oliver and Daniel Laforest, Published by Dept of Art and Design, University of Alberta and Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media (editors: Jacquelyn Ford Morie (All These Worlds, LLC, USA) and Kate McCallum (Bridge Arts Media, USA and Vortex Immersion Media, USA).
Keram founded both VRTO & FIVARS in 2015. He’s a business and creative development consultant to a wide variety of tech companies, and founder of Constant Change Media Group Inc., with strong ties to both the Toronto & Los Angeles markets. He is also the editor in-chief of IndieGameReviewer.com, an instructor in WebXR design at UCLA Extension and author of essays around spatial media for several books. He won Creator of the Year at the 2022 Poly Awards, was named one of the Top 100 Original Voices in XR in 2021, and contributed to the 2022 PEW Research report on the Metaverse in 2040.