Joshua McVeigh-Schultz

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz is a filmmaker and researcher for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. He earned a PhD in Media Arts and Practice at USC (2016). At USC he has worked as a designer and project director in Scott Fisher’s Mobile and Environmental Research Lab, designing speculative interfaces for creative collaboration in VR (among other topics). For his dissertation, he researched the relationship between technology and ritual and conducted research at Intel Labs and Microsoft Research. At MSR New England he researched the role of affordances in a microsocial relationship app, Couple. At Intel Labs’ Interaction Experience Research group (IXR), he spearheaded the rapid prototyping efforts for the “data monster” toolkit. In 2013, he won an Intel PhD Fellowship for his research on data-driven objects and speculative ritual design. He earned an MFA at UC Santa Cruz’s Digital Arts and New Media program and an MA in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, where he studied linguistic anthropology, primatology, and cinema & media studies. Between his undergraduate and graduate careers, he lived, studied, and taught in Japan and China.