Brett Phares is an artist and curator working in immersive art and the built environment. With 20+ years in interactive media, he has created innovative projects for both startups and international brands, all inescapably informing the visual syntax of his personal work. He earned his MFA from Hunter College and MA in Art History, Theory and Criticism from SUNY Stony Brook. He has shown his artwork internationally; has written and taught on our habituated blindness of the everyday; is cofounder and curator of Alys Beach’s annual light art exhibition Digital Graffiti (going into its 15th year) and artist residency; and founder of lightStruct, an immersive art/tech startup.