Presenter: Edrex Fontanilla, Collins College of Professional Studies, Mass Communication

Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Immersive Media as an Instrument for Social Change

Fontanilla's creative practice employs immersive media as an interventional tool, creating low-impact site-specific installations about urban ecology, and educational instruments for social integration of disabilities. In this session, Fontanilla explores the emergent properties of virtual reality that make the expressive form particularly effective in promoting cognitive empathy.

The meeting link will be sent prior to the event, so please look out for an email from CTL@stjohns.edu.