Anna Desponds

[ Total Immersion Foundation, StoryCode Warsaw ]

Panel:

Interactive stories: Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?

Culture manager, film curator and educator. In 2008-2014 she helped develop the Planete+ Doc festival (Docs Against Gravity). She was the coordinator of the international project Martin Scorsese Presents - Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, and curated the Opowiadanie na Nowo (Story-Re-Telling) section of the NInA Beta Version 2015 festival – Poland’s first presentation of new formats on such a broad scale. She runs the Odbiornik podcast for the dwutygodnik.com magazine, dedicated to hybrid digital culture. Anna is the organiser of the StoryCode Warsaw network, and works for the company New Amsterdam, designing multimedia content for museums. She is a sociologist and anthropologist, a graduate of Warsaw’s College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities. Anna’s interests include the future of the audiovisual, documentaries and experience design.