Jesse Damiani

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Jesse Damiani
Born1989 (age 34–35)
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationFlorida State University (BA)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (MFA)
Occupations
  • Writer
  • producer
  • entrepreneur

Jesse Damiani (born 1989) is an American writer, producer, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his association with virtual reality, augmented reality, and new media art.[1][2][3] He is a Forbes Contributor covering emerging technologies.[4][5][6]

Early life and education[edit]

Damiani was born in Gainesville, Florida. He received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Media Production and Creative Writing at Florida State University (2011).[7] He received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Wisconsin–Madison (2013). He was the 2013-2014 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.[8]

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

In 2012, Damiani founded Best American Experimental Writing with Seth Abramson.[9] From 2013 to 2017, he wrote about topics in film, television, culture, and digital media as an IndieWire columnist and HuffPost contributor.[10][11][12]

Emerging technologies[edit]

Damiani's coverage of emerging technologies has appeared in outlets including Adweek, Billboard, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Quartz, and The Verge.[4][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Through his writing on immersive storytelling, Damiani introduced the concept of the “Builder-Participator Paradigm” to describe the storytelling paradigm created through the “narrative potential” of immersive environments.[19][20][15][21][22][23][24] His Forbes article, “VR And AR Mark The Greatest Revolution In The History Of UX/UI Design,” inspired the creation of the Kendall College of Art and Design/Th3rd Coast Emerging Tech Innovation Lab.[25]

Damiani's insights have been included in industry reports from the Anti-Defamation League, Associated Press, Columbia Journalism Review, Hyper Island, Institute for the Future, and the Knight Foundation/Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.[26][27][28][29][30][31][32] On June 16, 2017, at the VRTO conference, he became one of the 18 ratifiers of the Code of Ethics on Human Augmentation, which was originally introduced by Steve Mann in 2004 and further refined with Ray Kurzweil and Marvin Minsky in 2013.[33][34][35]

In March 2019, AltspaceVR, the SocialVR platform owned by Microsoft, announced TECH TOCK, a live VR talk show, which Damiani would host.[36][37][38] In June 2019, Damiani hosted a limited-run, three-episode series with Syfy.[39][40]

Curation and producing[edit]

Damiani curates and produces immersive and new media art exhibitions.[41][42]

In September 2018, sp[a]ce gallery announced the XR exhibition, Spatial Reality, which Damiani curated and produced.[43] Spatial Reality was the largest XR art exhibition in history, featuring over 30 different pieces of immersive art from artists including Bill Barminski, Nancy Baker Cahill, Jorge R. Gutiérrez, Drue Kataoka, Zachary Lieberman, Kevin Mack, Taryn Southern, and Nicola Verlato.[44][45][46][47][48]

Damiani and Britt Salvesen co-curated Virtual Futures, which was presented by LACMA at LA Art Show.[49][50][51]

With Nancy Baker Cahill, Damiani co-produced BATTLEGROUNDS, a citywide AR public art exhibition in New Orleans.[52] According to the Los Angeles Times, in BATTLEGROUNDS, 24 New Orleans-based artists, including Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, were asked to “choose a location that they felt was contested, a battleground of sorts…then asked...to pair one of their artworks — drawing, painting, sculpture, video art and photography — with their chosen site to ‘activate, illuminate or further augment its meaning or history.’"[53]

Damiani worked as Producer on the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse AR Tunnel, which was created by Sutu and sponsored by Sony Pictures Animation, in collaboration with DesignerCon.[54][55]

Damiani is currently the curator of the XR For Change Summit at Games For Change.[56][57][58][59][60]

Bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Annunziata, Marco. "The Future Of Digital Is Analog: Art And Augmented Reality At Adobe's Festival Of The Impossible". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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  9. ^ "Best American Experimental Writing Anthology Announced by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  10. ^ "The Americans Recap: Marriage Is Not for Sissies". Vulture. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  11. ^ "Kelly's Curated Internet: "Mood Indigo," the History of TMZ, and the Kim Kardashian Game". Tribeca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  12. ^ Atkins, Ashley (2019-01-02). "Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter? Color-blindness and Epistemic Injustice*". Social Epistemology. 33 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1080/02691728.2018.1483879. ISSN 0269-1728. S2CID 149718854.
  13. ^ Damiani, Jesse (March 27, 2018). "4 Things Agencies Should Know About Creating Successful AR Integrations". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  14. ^ "How Augmented Reality Audio Will Let You Soundtrack Your Life". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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  19. ^ Damiani, Jesse; Galatea (2016-07-19). "Sure, VR Is A Storytelling Revolution... But How?". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  20. ^ Damiani, Jesse (2017-03-23). "The Beginner's Guide to VR Scriptwriting & Storytelling". VRScout. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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  39. ^ "Lives ! Les rendez-vous d'Eleven Eleven | SYFY France". www.syfy.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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  51. ^ "L.A. Art Show, the most important fair of the west coast of the USA, chooses the Latin American art in 2018". 15 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  52. ^ Fink, Charlie. "This Week In XR: Verizon Buys Jaunt, The Awesomeness of Google AR Maps, Tilt Five Kickstarter passes 1M, XR Maker Space In SF". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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