Keram Malicki-Sánchez is an actor, musician, writer, filmmaker, interactive media and virtual reality developer, multimedia artist, and event producer.
Malicki-Sánchez is an actor with over 65 professional credits in theater, film, television and voiceover whose career debuted in musical theatre at the age of seven in the title role of Oliver!
In 1998, Malicki-Sanchez launched the band Ribcage, with Eric Ryder Costello and Paul Gallinato, and toured Cleveland and New York, releasing one album, For Machines to Dream About.
FIVARS debuted at Toronto's Camp Wavelength music festival, and showed the first full viewing of MansLaughter by Cinemersia, which claims to be the world's first virtual reality feature film.
[34][35] Malicki-Sanchez then created the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo[36][37] which was staged at Toronto's Mattamy Athletic Centre (formerly Maple Leaf Gardens).
[38] Malicki-Sanchez has lectured or presented on Virtual Reality and its effects on society at Techweek Toronto,[39] the Canadian National Exhibition,[40] and Cinegear Expo, ideacity,[41] SIGGRAPH, PXR, and in articles for the New Yorker, CBC Radio and other mainstream media.
In 2020, Keram's essays were published in two books: Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media, edited by Jacquelyn Ford Morie and Kate McCallum,[42] and Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology.
[45] They discussed how, for FIVARS 2021, he created various 3D environments with Blender modelling software and brought them to life using the JanusWeb engine, JavaScript and WebXR and co-developed an immersive 3-screen theater for the web-based event.
[49] He produced and brought VRTO back as an in-person event 2022 through 2024 at OCAD University in Toronto, curating a conference about the current surge in text-to-image GAN art and virtual production for television,[50][51] live XR performance, and representation of diverse voices in the spatial computing industry.
[57] He taught a 3-hour course about digital immortalization and posthumous rights and ethics, involving volumetric capture, 3D scanning, AI, voice cloning with Dr.Jaquelin Ford Morie and Greg Panos at SIGGRAPH 2024.