Heidi Boisvert

(Bio as of October 2025)

Heidi Boisvert, PhD (Technology Director) is an interdisciplinary artist, experience designer, creative technologist and researcher investigating the neurobiological and socio-cultural impacts of media and technology. Her work focuses on how the body, senses and emotions influence perception and social change. She is currently mapping the world’s first media genome with careful attention to its ethical implications. Boisvert designs expanded reality and transmedia storytelling experiences and creates large-scale, networked performances using biocreative technology. She founded futurePerfect lab, a creative agency and think tank that works with social justice organizations to design playful emerging media campaigns to transform the public imagination. She also co-founded XTH, a company developing novel forms of expression through biotechnology and the human body, and co-curated EdgeCut, a live performance series exploring human-digital relationships. Boisvert is Associate Professor of AI & the Arts at the University of Florida, a Senior Research Fellow at the Norman Lear Center, a research affiliate at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and part of NEW INC’s Creative Science track. Her work has been showcased at venues including EMPAC, New York Live Arts, Banff, the New Museum, Los Angeles Music Center and Waag, and featured in TIME, Wired, Fast Company, The Atlantic, NPR and The New York Times.