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Jesse Damiani is a writer, curator, producer, entrepreneur, and public figure in emerging technology. He is a Senior Writer at Freethink covering emerging technologies, Curator & Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum, and Editor-at-Large of VRScout. He is Founder and Series Editor of Best American Experimental Writing, and Founder and CEO of Galatea, a screenwriting and project management tool for VR and AR stories.
He covers technology, art and media, with work in Adweek, Billboard, Entrepreneur, IndieWire, HuffPost, Quartz, The Verge, and WIRED; and syndication in CBS News, CJR, The New Digital Storytelling textbook, and REDEF.
He formerly served as Director of Emerging Technology & Insight at Southern New Hampshire University, where he led the Future of Work initiative. He was listed as a top global VR influencer in 2017 by Onalytica and in 2021 by HTC Vive, was interviewed as an expert source in the AP guide for immersive journalism, and runs “Immersive Writers & Storytellers” and “Blockchain XR.” He has served as a mentor in the YouTube VR Creator Lab and worked with Google in their initiative to develop educational content for the VR/AR industry as Curriculum Writer and Editor and on-camera instructor on their “VR and 360 Video Production” and “Introduction to Augmented Reality and ARCore” courses.
A regular speaker and host, he has appeared at conferences, shows, and events such as SXSW, Cheddar, and the School of The New York Times. He hosts Tech Tock, a talk show in Microsoft’s SocialVR platform, AltspaceVR. He was the Curator and Producer for the XR art exhibition, Spatial Reality, at sp[a]ce gallery; Co-Curator of Virtual Futures with LACMA for LA Art Show; and Co-Curator of SIM-CINEMA with FLOAT and Wevr. He also curates The Tech Zone at DesignerCon and XR For Change, the XR summit at Games For Change.
