Fanni Fazekas

Fanni is currently a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University Wellington – Te Herenga Waka, where she teaches in the Master of Design Technology program. Previously, she taught "VR for good" non-linear storytelling at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and earned her BA degree. Fanni is a graduate of the New York University ITP Program, where she earned her master’s degree in 2019. She is an Unreal Engine Technical Artist, Director, and Researcher who focuses on elevating the stories of underestimated individuals in XR to achieve measurable positive real-world impact. Her recent project, Missing 10 Hours has earned recognition as the Best in Show VR at Siggraph Los Angeles and Best XR Impact at DocEdge Film Festival New Zealand. The five-year-long community-based project led to the development of a series of co-creation strategies and principles, which she actively uses in her teaching and artistic work within her female digital artist collective RUMEXR.