Anna Henson
Visiting Assistant Professor at www.annahenson.com
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Henson is a multidisciplinary creative technologist and educator with nine years of focused experience designing immersive media, projection, and XR-driven experiences for theatre, museums, and academic programs. As founding faculty of a BFA in Emerging Media Arts and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt, she blends curriculum design and research (MS from Carnegie Mellon, MFA from Glasgow School of Art) with hands-on production leadership. Her portfolio spans Broadway to international ballet, where she codes and engineers projection systems, interactive installations, and volumetric XR prototypes that unite physical performance and digital narrative. She has led large-scale VR and XR projects as a technical producer and mentor at institutions like Carnegie Mellon and New Museum’s NEW INC, guiding both creative strategy and technical execution. Known for combining rigorous user-centered research with theatrical sensibilities, she prioritizes inclusive, embodied, and accessible experiences that amplify marginalized voices. A practiced collaborator who moves between studio, stage, and lab, she often serves as the bridge between artists, technologists, and institutions to bring experimental work into public presentation.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSS Fine Art Psychology, BSS Fine Art Psychology at Cornell CollegeMaster's of Fine Art New Media, Master's of Fine Art New Media at The Glasgow School of ArtMasters of Science in Computational Design [XR Interaction & Experience Design Volumetric Capture], Masters of Science in Computational Design [XR Interaction & Experience Design Volumetric Capture] at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French
Github Skills (4)
webgl1
threejs1
virtual-reality1
animation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Anna-Henson/Wake_CMU_Thesis
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Anna-Henson/EMAR391
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 41 commits, 6 pushes in 18 days
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