Josephine Dorado is a social entrepreneur, educator, artist, producer and skydiver whose work focuses on architecting innovative learning and mixed reality experiences. She was a Fulbright scholarship recipient and initiated the Kidz Connect program, which is a virtual cultural exchange program that connects youth internationally through creative collaboration and theatrical performance in virtual worlds. Josephine also received a MacArthur Foundation award to co-found Fractor, which matches news with opportunities for activism. She currently teaches at the New School and is the live events producer for This Spartan Life, a talk show inside the video game Halo. Commissioned works include interdisciplinary productions for the ISEA and Romaeuropa Festivals as well as speaking engagements at SXSW, IgniteNYC, SIGGRAPH, PICNIC (Amsterdam), IPZ (Istanbul) and London Knowledge Lab. Upcoming ventures include StageStream, which leverages emergent technology to enrich online experiences of classical music and live performance, and CuriousCity, a curated mobile guide for alternative lifestyles. Josephine’s experience focuses on innovation in hybrid online spaces, as well as virtual world experience design and game-based/theater-inspired collaborative methodologies.  http://about.me/funksoup Twitter: @funksoup

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Sep

This Spartan Life at IPZ

By • 18 September 2011 • speaking, This Spartan Life • Comments Off

I’m headed to the IPZ Conference in Istanbul, Turkey to give a keynote talk on Extending Outreach through Games and Virtual Worlds. For my presentation, I’ll be joined by my esteemed colleague and friend, Chris Burke, the creator of This Spartan Life, coming in through the video game Halo, live from New York. Using Halo as a meeting point, [...]