shirin anlen is an artist and creative technologist based in New York. Her artistic practice involves creative coding, interaction design, drawings, and data research that form the basis for real-life storytelling in emerging technologies. Shirin’s work has been featured internationally including at the Queens Museum, SIGGRAPH, House of Electronic (HEK), Cannes Film Festival and Google Web Experiments. Shirin was an artist in residence at the National Film Board of Canada and a member at the NEW INC incubator together with Raycaster, an experience design studio she co-founded. She received the Best Digital Story Award from the Biennial of Medial Arts of Chile, a research grant from the Knight Foundation, and an art commission from IDFA DocLab. She co-founded the first VR festival and lab in Israel, Steamer Salon, and is a member of Women+ Art AI collective.
While at OpenDocLab, shirin is working on to be changed, an interactive webAR novella about living with many realities.