Ingrid Kopp

Ingrid Kopp is a co-founder of Electric South, a non-profit initiative to develop virtual reality and other new forms of storytelling across Africa. Electric South works with interdisciplinary artists across the continent to develop, produce and distribute immersive work. In this role, she produces and facilitates an annual residential lab, and is an executive producer on award winning VR projects, including The Other Dakar, Le Lac and Azibuye – The Occupation.

Ingrid also curates the Tribeca Storyscapes programme for interactive and immersive work at the Tribeca Film Festival. Along with MIT’s Open DocLab and Dot Connector Studio, she produces Immerse, a monthly publication for Medium on emerging storytelling.

Until the end of 2017, Ingrid was a senior consultant in the Interactive Department at the Tribeca Film Institute. She was director of the department from 2011 to 2015. Through the TFI New Media Fund she supported groundbreaking projects like The Enemy, Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, and Traveling While Black. Ingrid created the Institute’s other digital and interactive programs, including the TFI Interactive conference and Tribeca Hacks, bringing storytellers, technologists and designers together to explore new collaborations.

Ingrid has been based in Cape Town, South Africa since 2015.