Karen Palmer

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future, an award winning XR creator and futurist who explores the societal implications of A.I and technology. She does this by enabling participants to experience the future today through her immersive experiences, which watch you back using artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies.

In 2023 Karen won the XR Experience Competition at SXSW 2023 with Consensus Gentium, designed to drive discussion about data privacy, unconscious biases and the power of technology. The narrative branches in real time depending upon the participants eye gaze and emotions. Enabling participants to experience AI bias, surveillance technologies and their potential integration into the everyday world. Consensus Gentium has traveled to CHPDox in Copenhagen, London Film Festival , the Kaohsiung Film Festival Taiwan, Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Munich Film Festival, and Ars Electronica Austria etc.

Press includes Channel 4 News, BBC News, CBS News, Wired, Forbes, PC Mag, CBS TV , Fast Company , Engadget, The Guardian. Karen is a TED Speaker and Thought Leader in A.I, Immersive Storytelling for Impact, Futurism and Tech. Keynote speaker at AT&T Shape Conference, L.A, Wired for Wonder Festival Australia, MIT and TEDx Australia Speaker at the Sydney Opera House, Microsoft Seattle, Vertex Berlin, ThoughtWorks Toronto and Google Cultural Institute in Paris. Exhibited at The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum NYC, the V&A London, PHI Centre Montreal, Museum of Modern Art Peru. SXSW, the Netherlands Film Festival to the Future of Storytelling NYC.

She received Honorary Mention STARTS Prize ARS Electronica for her A.I. experience "Perception iO". Her installation "RIOT" received a Digital Dozen Award. She has been research based artist working with A.I. since 2015, interdisciplinary "Hack the Future Labs" Think & ActionTanks to explore solutions for urgent issues impacting this rapidly changing society.