bio
Marco Pinter is an artist and technologist, and spearheads an initiative to deliver digital mental wellness through visual art, music & rhythm, movement & dance, and creative writing. He is also the founder of the Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences. As an artist, he creates artwork and performances which fuse physical kinetic form with live visualizations. He has a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. His work integrating graphics with robotic sculpture is supported by grants from the David Bermant Foundation, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts. He has exhibited artwork and performances at cities around the world, including Dubai, New York, Montreal, Tehran, Hong Kong, Anaheim, San Diego and Santa Barbara. Pinter is a contributing author to The McGraw Hill Multimedia Handbook and The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook. He is an inventor on over 100 patents in the areas of live video technology, robotics, interactivity and telepresence.