Charles Trapolin: Artist
Charles H. Trapolin is a visual and performing artist residing in San Francisco. His visual artwork has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Waitakaruru Sculpture Garden and Arboretum in New Zealand and the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. In addition, his work has been shown at the Oakland Museum, McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco and Burning Man in 2000 and 2001. In 2023, he opened Bounty a studio/gallery in which he could develop new work.
His commissions include: set design/construction for “The Monkey and the Devil” by Joanna Haigood/Zaccho Dance Theater in San Francisco; artwork for the Maze of Reflection at Burning Man in 2001; and choreography/performance at the Mendocino Music Festival.
Over a period of ten years, he performed throughout the United States with various dance companies, taught dance and choreographed and performed his own work. He was also an artist-in-residence at the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Arts and Consciousness Studies from John F. Kennedy University and was the Outstanding Student from the Graduate School for Holistic Studies in 2000.
Beyond studies in art, he has studied with shamans, Tibetan Buddhist monks, Christian Mystics and is certified in various healing modalities.
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Dillon Joseph: Technical Director
Dillon is a founder, XR developer, feature filmmaker, and sound designer, whose curiosity as a musician and darkroom photographer evolved into a career of scientific and artistic exploration.
Over the past decade Dillon Joseph has directed teams and worked with C-Level executives to deliver engineering projects for iHeart Radio, NASA , military training, and large scale immersive VR companies.
In 2012 Dillon designed and constructed iHeart Radio’s Total Traffic & Weather Network (San Francisco), as well as the VIP
Performance Lounge, where he personally engineered 50+ live radio events with A-list performing artists such as Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Arianna Grande, John Legend, Kanye West, E- 40, and many more.
Upon departure from the radio world, Dillon became manager at the NASA Ames extremophile laboratory, and directed bio-engineering experiments, refined protocols, and performed lab procedures to collect, analyze, and present data at conferences.
In 2018 Dillon served as the director of engineering at Nomadic VR where he developed a highly immersive tactile VR platform, and successfully deployed locations domestically and internationally, working directly with content partners such as Vertigo Games & Disney’s ILM to design and build bespoke experiences.
In 2020 the Covid shutdown halted all physical work, and Dillon seized the opportunity to create during quarantine, thus producing, directing, editing, and sound designing the feature length movie, Rex Bixby based on his own experience as a virtual reality developer.
Dillon is the founder of the Terrafuse Collective, an XR technology & media production company, specializing in creating highly immersive experiences.
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