| ISPA 2026 New York Congress – Kevin Cunningham |
 Kevin CunninghamFounding Artistic Director An interdisciplinary artist, curator, cultural entrepreneur and producer, Kevin’s artistic focus has been on the creation of large-scale immersive works that use technology to amplify empathy and human connection. In the last 15 years he has produced and/or created over 170 large-scale works including interactive installations, architectural mapping projects, feature length films, large-scale immersive and holographic theater, opera and dance. These include the first fully holographic theater production in the U.S., an immersive work made up of the audiences hallucinations and a full-evening dance for human and industrial robot. He is known for the development and dissemination of technologies and methods that allow artists to do more with less and work across disciplines. He has overseen development of many creative technology projects including full-scale application development, AR, VR, Mixed Reality and large scale live interactive and media heavy production works. As an entrepreneur he has raised over $54M for various companies and projects he has created. He is the author, director and designer of many interdisciplinary artworks and experiences. His original works have garnered a Hewes Award, Prague Quadrennial and Venice Biennale selections, a Drama Desk Nomination and fellowships from Experiments in Art and Technology and the Future Imagination Collaboratory as well as residencies at The Edward Albee Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio retreat. His productions have won a Pulitzer Prize, four Drama Desk Nominations, four Sundance Selections and selection for American Film Institute, New York, Hamptons, CPH:Dox, Venice Biennale, China Shanghai international Arts and B3/Art+ Biennial festivals. He is urgently working on a new virtuous cycle model for independent and not for profit interdisciplinary funding and management focused on extending the critical experimental arts tradition in the United States and on fostering cooperation between artists and across for profit and non-profit entertainment and tech sectors to create a self-sustaining platform to create and foster adventurous, challenging new work across creative disciplines.
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