Entrepreneur, artist, director, music video director
Employer
Within (formerly Vrse[3])
Known for
Virtual reality, immersive art, music videos
Website
Milk.co
Chris Milk is an American entrepreneur, innovator, director, photographer, and immersive artist. He is co-founder and CEO of Within (Virtual Reality) (formerly Vrse),[4] a virtual reality technology company, and co-founder of Here Be Dragons (formerly Vrse.works), a virtual reality production company. Milk began his career directing music videos and commercials for leading artists and brands, and in subsequent years became best known for bridging the gap between emerging technologies and new mediums for storytelling.
Milk's work has been exhibited in museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Barbican Centre in London, Cent Quatre in Paris, and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Milk has been honored twice with the Grand Prix Cannes Lions, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW's 'Best of Show' alongside multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK MVA Innovation Award.
Milk was named one of WIRED's 100 Most Influential People[5] in 2016, one of The Hollywood Reporter's L.A.'s 25 Most Powerful Digital Players[6] in 2016, Adweek's Creative 100 list in 2015,[7] as one of the 50 Most Creative People by Advertising Age in 2011 and 2015,[8][9] and one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company in 2012.[10] Milk presented at TED in 2015 on the power of virtual reality as a medium to advance humanity, and again in 2016 on the birth of virtual reality as a new art form.[11]
^Parkin, Simon (30 June 2014). "Chris Milk: the digital artist making music videos fly into the future". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
^"Bio - Chris Milk". Milk.co (official website. Milk was born and raised in Glen Cove NY, and lives in Los Angeles)
^"The VR company Vrse is changing its name to Within, and about to spend $12.56 million of VC money". Wired.
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