Over the past four years, IAA has presented projects by more than 70 artists and has partnered with 50+ Bay Area arts organizations, presenting partners, and social justice organizations.

The Creators Council @ Immersive Art Alliance

The Creators Council informs the overall direction of the organization and participates in IAA programming, including the Oakland Festival of Immersive Arts and IAA Artist Salons.

A rotation of new artists and curators into the Creators Council takes place every two years.

  • Jonathan Crawford is a musician, composer, sound-designer, record-producer, and DJ based in San Francisco, CA. Learn more.

  • Elena Gross is a curator and author living in San Francisco. Learn more about Elena.

  • Michael Bobino is an audio operator for NBC Sports and the founder of F&M Publishing LLC, a tech company that focuses onaugmented reality (AR) based book publishing.

  • Zachary James Watkins is a composer and performer living in San Francisco. He is on the Steering Committee at the Center for New Music.

  • Clark Suprynowicz is the Artistic and Executive Director of Immersive Arts Alliance

  • Issabella Grantham is the Vice President of Immersive Arts Alliance and also directs Digital Marketing for the Oakland Museum of California.

IAA Creators Council (clockwise from top left)

IAA Artist Community

IAA is proud to work with a diverse range of artists and creative communities from the Bay Area and beyond. Meet our artists!

Click on each photo to learn more about the project. Click on a name in the accordion to learn more about the artist involved.

  • Zeina Barakeh (b. Beirut) is a Palestinian-Lebanese artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area —> website

  • Elaine Buckholtz is a Light Installation Artist operating in the space between installation, architecture and landscape with interests in public revelation, physical and metaphorical transformation, biotechnology, and the technologically sublime —> website

  • Visual artist & director Can Büyükberber (b. 1987) creates immersive audiovisual experiences that’s embodied in physical and digital spaces —> website

  • Heesoo Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist from South Korea based in the Bay Area —> website

  • Davey Whitcraft collaborates with AI to investigate notions of the natural —> website

  • is an award-winning media and performance artist who often collaborates with acclaimed composers, directors, and choreographers —> website

Heesoo Kwon, artist self-portrait

Contributors to programming

Damien McDuffie & collaborators

Sally Weber, photographed by Donna Granada

FLUX & Convergence of Unruly Outcomes

  • Sally Weber is an independent light artist based in Oakland, California —> website

  • Resonance Studio is a collaborative founded by artist Sally Weber and optics designer and inventor Craig Newswanger to create innovative light works and worlds —> website

Shimon Attie

  • Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist, whose work spans photography, video, site-specific installation, public projects, and new media

    —> website

Night Watch SF Premiere Artist and Partner Activations 

  • BAMPFA showcased Night Watch on its Outdoor Screen as part of the ongoing video series On the Hour —> website

  • Berkeley Art and Design —> website

  • Established in 1991, Catharine Clark Gallery presents the work of contemporary artists —> website

  • #chambermusicforthepeople —> website

  • Art Museum kvelling over art & Jewish culture —> website

  • This was an IAA event —> Learn more

  • A love letter to your feet from the dance floor, Mission Delirium is an invitation to revel in pounding drums and facemelting brass —> website

  • Located in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district, the Minnesota Street Project offers economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists and related nonprofits —> website

  • MoAD celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, & inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora —> website

  • The mission of Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation is to promote the relevancy of art and artists in our daily lives while giving back to the creative community and nurturing a spirit of kindness — to our neighbors, to our planet and to ourselves —> website

  • Founded in 2010, Dance Film SF is a nonprofit organization that brings dance to new audiences through the presentation and development of dance-based media —> website

  • This was an IAA event —> Learn more

  • Yesica Prado is a journalist and artist based in Berkeley, California. A first-generation Mexican immigrant from Nezahualcoyótl, Mexico, Prado focuses her reporting on issues that limit people’s access to land such as immigration, homelessness, and Indigenous status.

    Yesica Prado lectured at SFAI, kicking off the west coast debut of Shimon Attie’s Night Watch —> event info —> Yesica Prado’s website

  • Standard of Capital, 2021; 7:04 minutes —> project website

Immersive art is for everyone. At IAA, we are dedicated to…

  • Facilitating collaboration across all lines of color, gender, race and class

  • Commissioning artists of color to create new work, and showcase work by artists of color

  • Making diversity a core value in who we work with, and who is part of our organization

  • Bringing technology-based artist tools to those who don’t have them.

 

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