Nick Pilarski

ecognized as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Cinema, is an award-winning filmmaker and pre-GPT AI artist whose co-created works address historic poverty, environmental concerns, and trauma. He creates art that emerges from the communities it depicts, contesting conventional boundaries of subject/author, teacher/student, and spectator/producer. Interim Director of ASU's MiX Center and Co-director of the RV-CoLab at ASU, Pilarski's work, celebrated by the MIT Co-Creation Studio, is archived in The Smithsonian's permanent collection, featured in The New York Time and Engadget and highlighted at games for charge. He has advised NYC's Office of Technology and Innovation, advocating for community storytelling and XR to promote upward mobility and equity.