Violeta López (Violet Forest)

XR Developer // Technical Artist

Working at the intersection of real-time graphics, interactivity, and design.

I completed my Masters in Fine Arts (2016) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Art & Technology program. My art practice in school involved working creatively with technology with a range of tools like Processing, Unity, app development, virtual reality, openFrameworks, and arduino/DIY electronics.

After grad school, I kicked off my career as a technologist in front-end and Unity development and worked as a freelancer with design studios in Chicago for 3 years (2015-2018). I evolved from front-end developer to creative technologist by blending my learnings from school into my profession.

From 2018-2020 I lived in Berlin on a work visa to be closer to VR and game art community there. I was working as a full-time employee at Volkswagen Future Center Europe as a UX Design Technologist, conceptualizing and prototyping UX solutions for Level 3-5 self-driving vehicles. I was working with a range of tools, including VR/AR, computer vision, DIY electronics, machine learning, 3D and app development.

After leaving Volkswagen, I came back to the US to work again as a freelancer, where I worked as a contractor for Meta as technical artist on multiplayer VR games.

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