Meet the 2023 Mentors

Vassiliki Khonsari

Producer, Director, and Creative technologist across screens. With a background as a Visual Anthropologist, Khonsari co-founded iNK Stories in New York City––a BAFTA nominated studio known for its bold, social impact and award-winning titles across video games, VR/AR/XR, films, and virtual spaces in Web2 and Web3. Khonsari consults and advises at top institutions like Sundance, CPH:Dox, AIDC and Brooklyn Museum. Most recent award includes the Imagination Award in 2023 granted by Sundance and Stars Collective. Founding Member of Rolling Stone Culture Council and Ambassador for Women in Games.

Lundahl & Seitl

Lundahl & Seitl live and work in Stockholm. Their immersive solo projects reinterpret the medium of the exhibition as interpersonal processes via choreography, matter and time. Presented around the world, notably at Royal Academy of Art in 2014, Gropius-Bau in 2016, and Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2017. Group Exhibitions include the 8th Momentum Biennale of Nordic Contemporary Art 2015 (NO), 'An Imagined Museum' Centre Pompidou Metz 2016-2017 (FR), the 3rd Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016-2017 (IN), and a recent commission: Echoes of Alternative Histories at Staatsteater Kassel, which coincided with Documenta Fifteen. In the fall of 2022, the duo was visiting artists at the ACT Programme at MIT.

David Oppenheim

David Oppenheim is a Creative Producer and Executive Producer of interactive experiences. At the National Film Board of Canada (2014-2022) his most recent credits included Draw Me Close, Agence, The Book of Distance, Otherly, The Space We Hold and To Kill a Tiger. His productions have won multiple Webby awards, Canadian Screen Awards and a Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award, and premiered at major festivals including Venice, Tribeca, Sundance and TIFF.

David is a past resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab. He is currently consulting and completing his Masters of Design at OCAD University in Toronto

Halsey Burgund

Halsey Burgund is a new media artist and Emmy-winning interactive director whose work focuses on the combination of modern technologies - from mobile phones to artificial intelligence - with fundamentally human “technologies”, primarily language, music and the spoken voice. He is the creator of Roundware, the open source contributory audio AR platform, which has been used to create art and educational installations for cultural organizations internationally. Halsey was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab and is currently Creative Technologist in Residence at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and an affiliate in Harvard's metaLAB.