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  • NewImages Festival 2025: A Retrospective on the Paris Immersive Industry’s State of the Art

    NewImages Festival 2025: A Retrospective on the Paris Immersive Industry’s State of the Art

    April 9, 2026
    Conference Retrospectives

    NewImages Festival is the most important annual gathering for immersive creation in continental Europe. An international festival and market of digital creation and virtual worlds,…

  • London Experience Week 2025: A Retrospective

    London Experience Week 2025: A Retrospective

    March 11, 2026
    Conference Retrospectives

    London Experience Week is the most useful annual gathering for senior buyers and builders in the experience economy. Run by the World Experience Organisation, it…

  • SXSW 2025: A Retrospective on What the Festival Said About Where Experience Is Going

    SXSW 2025: A Retrospective on What the Festival Said About Where Experience Is Going

    February 11, 2026
    Conference Retrospectives

    SXSW 2025 wrapped in Austin in March of last year. With ten months of perspective, what stood out then is mostly still standing now —…

  • Experiential vs. Immersive vs. Interactive: A Vocabulary Buyers Should Actually Know

    Experiential vs. Immersive vs. Interactive: A Vocabulary Buyers Should Actually Know

    January 14, 2026
    Industry Strategy

    The three most-confused words in this industry are experiential, immersive, and interactive. Buyers use them as synonyms. Studios use them inconsistently from one proposal to…

  • Designing for Transformation: A Framework for Producers of Consciousness Events

    Designing for Transformation: A Framework for Producers of Consciousness Events

    December 10, 2025
    Design Practice

    I work with a specific category of event producer: the ones whose business model is built on attendees leaving changed. Not entertained. Not impressed. Changed.…

  • What “Creative Direction” Actually Means at the Flagship Tier

    What “Creative Direction” Actually Means at the Flagship Tier

    November 12, 2025
    Design Practice

    “Creative direction” is the phrase that does the most work in our industry, and the least defining. Every studio claims to provide it. Most are…

  • The Curator’s Job: How Alt Ethos Picks Collaborators

    The Curator’s Job: How Alt Ethos Picks Collaborators

    October 15, 2025
    Design Practice

    Most projection-mapping projects fail before the first projector is ordered. They fail at the artist-selection meeting. The same is true for most large-scale interactive installations…

  • Burning Man 2025: A Designer’s Retrospective

    Burning Man 2025: A Designer’s Retrospective

    September 17, 2025
    Conference Retrospectives

    Most of my industry treats Burning Man as a cultural curiosity that happens to involve large-scale art. That framing misses the point. Black Rock City…

  • The Three Mistakes Senior Producers Make Briefing an Immersive Studio

    The Three Mistakes Senior Producers Make Briefing an Immersive Studio

    August 13, 2025
    Buyer’s Guide

    I’ve taken a lot of first calls over the years. The senior producers who eventually become great clients have one thing in common: they’ve usually…

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