Tiny Dancers, Singing Fish, Burning Man: Virtual Worlds, Real Stories
Galen Brandt DigitalSpace Corporation

Galen is a writer, speaker, musician, and performer. She specializes in the social and cultural implications of new media technologies, especially in the healing potential of virtual reality and avatar applications.She is virtual director at Digitalspace Corporation helping to create avatar communities for Adobe, NASA, and others. She is a frequent speaker at new media conferences including SIGGRAPH, COMDEX, Intermedia, Earth to Avatars,Virtual Reality Universe, VirComm, MultiMedia Expo, and Digital Hollywood. She has explored the social implications of new media in publications ranging from Playgirl to Mondo 2000 to the New Age Journal, and is a former editor of Common Ground Vancouver.Galen is a new product marketing expert with 25 years experience in research, positioning, and new product development for clients including United Media, Revlon, Corning and Dun & Bradstreet. She is also an award-winning composer and music producer specializing in children's music, whose clients include Disney, Lorimar, Western Publishing, and Hasbro. She co-founded and performs on her own Ancient Records label.As virtual reality artist, she has performed with Myron Krueger's VIDEOPLACE as his Tiny Dancer, with Toronto's Vivid Group Mandala System, with the BioMuse and BodySynth virtual biocontrollers and other systems.