Josephine Dorado is a New York-based media artist, performer and social entrepreneur. In her work, she
explores the extension of the performance environment by merging virtual with real space, in which innovative ways of using emerging technologies are envisioned to promote cultural exchange and international community development. She founded ZoomLab and initiated the Kidz Connect program, which connects students internationally via creative collaboration in virtual worlds such as Second Life. Josephine teaches at the New School, where she received her M.A. in Media Studies in 2006. She was a Fulbright scholarship recipient and an artist-in-residence at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and continues her involvement with Fulbright as a member of the Board of Directors. Performances include interdisciplinary productions for the ISEA and Romaeuropa Festivals as well as speaking engagements at SIGGRAPH, Queen’s University in Belfast, and London Knowledge Lab. She is currently launching Fractor, for which a MacArthur Foundation award was received. Josephine’s experience ranging from theater for at-risk children to technology and design, brings perspectives on theater-inspired collaborative methodologies as well as the issues of working within a virtual context.
