Rus Gant

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Profile

Rus Gant is a well-regarded international multi-technology artist, researcher and visual futurist. He is currently an XR+AI Researcher in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the Research staff at Harvard University for 12 years in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, where he ran the Visualization Research Laboratory and the Virtual Harvard Project, he was recently a Research Fellow at MIT at the Center for Media Studies and for 10 years was adjunct faculty at Tokyo’s Showa Women’s University’s Institute for Language and Culture. He is a past fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, was director of the Visualization Group of MIT’s Project Athena and a Fellow at the Center for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University

In the past few years he has  been researching the future of real-time immersive 3D computer graphics and video imaging for virtual production, next generation virtual reality, including Generative AI for visualization and immersive telepresence. He is a noted historian and lecturer on the history of XR technology. He has served as the Lead Technical Artist for the Giza 3D project at Harvard and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts reconstructing the pyramids, temples and tombs on the Egyptian Giza Plateau in virtual reality. He was the architect of the first digital visualization lab at Polaroid. He was the founder of the first Multi-media Group at International Computers Ltd. in the UK.

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