Winslow Turner Porter III
Winslow Porter is an award-winning director, producer and creative technologist specializing in virtual/augmented reality as well as large-scale immersive installations. His work focuses on embodying the unique timescales of non-human organisms, through various emerging technologies. He is currently a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum, a seven-time mentor at the New Museum Incubator, an adjunct NYU Tisch professor and a founding member of ONX Studio.
Along with fellow ONX member, Elie Zananiri he is an artist-in-residence at the Smallhold Mushroom farm in Brooklyn, creating an immersive experience featuring the first volumetric mushroom time-lapse called Forager, featured at SIGGRAPH 2022, Unreal Fest 2022 and premiering at SXSW 2023. Forager started from a fellowship and grant from the Goethe Institut's New Nature program. The project has since expanded to work with over 30 taleted artists and engineers, one being ONX's own Georgios Cherouvim. Previously, Winslow formed the pioneering, new media studio the New Reality Company in 2016 with Milica Zec, creating the critically-acclaimed cinematic VR experiences Giant and Tree. These experiences have been shown across the globe at events like Sundance, Tribeca Immersive, TED, The World Economic Forum in Davos/Tianjin, UN General Assembly and ONX Studio.
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