Gabo Arora
Gabo Arora is an artist, filmmaker, and institution builder whose work explores how emerging technologies transform memory, identity, and human connection. Over the past decade, he has created pioneering works in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and immersive storytelling, exhibited at museums, festivals, and public spaces around the world. His projects include Clouds Over Sidra, one of the earliest virtual reality documentaries used at global scale for humanitarian advocacy, and The Last Goodbye, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He is the Founding Director of MoMI LAB at the Museum of the Moving Image, where he leads the museum’s work at the intersection of emerging technology, art, and public culture. He is also founder of LIGHTSHED.IO, founding director of Johns Hopkins University’s Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies program, and the first Creative Director of the United Nations. His latest work, The Great Dictator, premiered at SXSW 2026.