Gretchen Burger
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About

Gretchen Burger is an artist, filmmaker, curator, educator, and cultural worker deeply engaged in convenings, conversations, art projects and advocacy for creating a human(e) future.

Gretchen has produced, directed and edited award-winning public television and feature documentaries and has taught traditional, experimental and immersive media and storytelling to students of all ages (Seattle Public Schools, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle University, Art Institute).

In 2016, Gretchen and Sandy Cioffi co-founded  FEARLESS, a creative agency working at the intersections of public art, public benefit R+D, old and new technologies, education, and community experience and engagement design. As director of programming, Gretchen has curated groundbreaking immersive media festivals and exhibitions, and created educational programming, public art projects and curriculum to introduce general audiences to the new language of emerging technologies and the opportunities for economic and social transformation when these tools are designed by communities for community benefit.

Gretchen’s creative work explores themes of embodied human experience, as mediated through and by culture, politics and technology, in physical, virtual and holographic spaces. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at Northwest Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, Bellevue Art Museum, IMAGINE festival, Society of Illustrators, Pacific Science Center, Star & Shadow Cinema - Newcastle, UK, Artists' Television Access, Academic Film Center - Belgrade, The Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery. Gretchen has expanded her investigations into 360º video, immersive mixed reality, and the Embodied Narrative methodology, a first-person virtual reality experience developed by the BeAnotherLab to enhance empathetic human connection. She is passionate about designing experiences that create public access to and public space in the digital ether and are informed by practices of care and regenerative economics.