Performances and Exhibitions

5/2025 - Lincoln Center Collider Fellowship Open Studio - Brandon Powers Choreography Companion Showcase

3/2025 - Lincoln Center Collider Fellowship Open Studio - Brandon Powers Choreography Mocap Plugin Demo

10/2024 - Underground Art and Design Festival Jukebox of Dissonance - XR A/V Performance

7/2024 - Transced Lab - Visuals, Motion Capture

5/2024 - Illumination NYC 2024 - Main Stage Design, Projection Mapping, XR A/V Performance, Visuals

3/2024 - XREnsemble Songs From The Source @ Culture Lab LIC- XR A/V Performance

7/2023 - Burning Man Camp Fundraiser Event @ Bogart House - Projection Mapping, Visuals

4/2023 - Burning Man Camp Fundraiser Event @ The Deep End - Stage Design, Projection Mapping, XR A/V Performance, Visuals

10/2022 - Burning Man NYC Decompression @ Knockdown Center - XR A/V Performance, Visuals

7/2022 - Transformus 2022 - XR A/V Performance, Projection Installation, Visuals

5/2022 - MFA Design & Technology Thesis Show @ Kellen Auditorium - XR A/V Performance, Projection Installation

2/2022 - Love Burn 2022 - Projection Installation, Visuals

Lectures and Artist Talks

6/2025 - Unreal Fest Orlando 2025 - Mind The Gap: Transitioning From Unity to Unreal Engine Learning Lab - Instructor

1/2025 - Parsons School of Design and Technology - GGJ Unreal Engine Kickstart Workshop - Instructor

10/2024 - Underground Art and Design Festival Jukebox of Dissonance - Embers & Pixels Artist Talk, Panel Speaker

10/2024 - Unreal Fest Seattle 2024 - Mind The Gap: Transitioning From Unity to Unreal Engine Learning Lab - Instructor

3/2024 - Alex Coulombe Presents - Intro to Unreal Live Session - Co-Instructor and TA

4/2023 - NYU Tandon School of Engineering - Problem Solving in XR taught by Tee Topor - XR Live Performance Artist Talk

10/2022 - Parsons School of Design & Technology - Immersive Storytelling taugh by Maya Georgieva - World Building for Burning Man VR Artist Talk

Bio

Whitt Sellers is an XR Creative Technologist and Visual Artist based in North Carolina exploring novel forms of creative expression and play at the intersection of immersive technology and live performance. He earned his MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design in May 2022, where he later returned as part-time faculty to teach Creative Coding with Unreal Engine in the Fall of 2024, and earned his Authorized Unreal Instructor certification from Epic Games in April 2025.

Whitt specializes in performance capture for interactive experiences, and his work includes audio/visual live performances, hybrid theatrical shows, interactive festival stages, museum installations, XR concert experiences, educational workshops, and more. Whitt's audio/visual live performances blend his passion for fire spinning with his technology practice, taking the audience on a mesmerizing, cinematic journey through a virtual worlds filled with interactive visual effects driven by his prop and body movement.