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Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist, creative director, and organizer who develops cultural communities at the intersection of art, technology, and advocacy. She is currently the director of  IDEA New Rochelle, Interactive Digital Environments Alliance (IDEA), dedicated to promoting, developing, and maintaining a vibrant new Arts and Technology District in the City of New Rochelle’s Downtown Business Improvement District (BID). She directs VR and immersive experiences which have been exhibited at festivals and museums since 2006. Amelia was a professor of time-based media art and performance art at Vanderbilt University for five years before returning to her roots in NYC creative technology, graduating from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2015. In 2016 she went on to found and direct the DBRS Innovation Labs, an applied ai research lab that specialized in developing creative uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.  Amelia is the founder of the Stupid Hackathon, which now holds events around the world.  She is a fellow of the  Sundance New Frontiers Lab 2017 , a 2017 Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow, a 2016 Oculus Launch Pad Fellow, an Artist in Residence at Pioneer Works 2016 and has her video artworks as part of the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum and the McCord Museum.