Laura Levin is York Research Chair in Art, Technology, and Global Activism; Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance; and Director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology at York University (Toronto). Levin is Director of the Hemispheric Encounters Network, a SSHRC Partnership that explores how live and digital performance can connect artists, activists, and scholars across the Americas addressing shared human rights and environmental justice challenges. She is also Partnerships Lead at Connected Minds, a CFREF grant that researches and promotes the development of socially responsible AI, XR, and other emerging technologies. She is author/editor of 5 books, including the award-winning Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In and Performance Studies in Canada (with Marlis Schweitzer), and has co-created several research-creation projects exploring intersections of political performance, space, and immersive media. Mostly recently she has served as dramaturg on SpiderWebShow’s VR production, You Should Have Stayed Home, and Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective. A book on the Wetrospective, exploring Dobkin’s queer feminist performance art practice and larger questions around the politics of performance archives, was published by Intellect in Fall 2024.