Introducing... Heidi Boisvert

Artist-in-residence

For the next couple of months, Heidi Boisvert is artist-in-residence at Creative Learning Lab

Heidi Boisvert is a new media artist, experimental filmmaker, game designer, writer and educator. She is currently the Multi-Media Director at Breakthrough, where she oversees the production of a wide range of new media projects that help raise awareness of pressing social issues. She designed the first 3D social change game ICED: I Can End Deportation, about unfair U.S. immigration policies.

Prior to joining Breakthrough, Heidi taught Digital Media & Media Studies at Hunter College and launched a free digital media program for low income youth through Time Warner & NOAA funding. Most recently, Heidi founded and serves as the Creative Director of the futurePerfect lab, a boutique creative agency that works in partnership with non-profits to engineer their social messages for mass appeal through imaginative and playful applications of integrated media and emerging technology. Her latest initiative, America 2049, an alternative reality game on Facebook about pluralism, is garnering headline attention. Her art work has been exhibited in the U.S., Canada, Korea & Europe.  

During her residency at Creative Learning Lab she will be designing a couple of prototypes and working on a booklet on extended cognition with a cartoonist.

Website

Check out her website for more information: http://www.heidiboisvert.com/