Matt Gorbet is a co-host for TEDxWaterloo, and attended TED@Aspen 2008.

Matt uses technology in creative ways to create delightful experiences for exceptional spaces. He and his partners are currently implementing a comprehensive physical, technological and human systems infrastructure for technology-based public art at the new San Jose International Airport in Silicon Valley.

Before founding Gorbet Design, Inc., Matt was a researcher at PARC, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where his team designed and studied new document genres enabled by emerging technologies. Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from MIT and a Master of Science from the MIT Media Lab. He has several patents on novel interaction technologies.

Among Matt’s permanent installations are interactive artworks at the Royal Ontario Museum, York University’s Schulich School of Business and the Region of Waterloo’s Regional Operations Center.  He has exhibited technology artwork at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria, the NTT Inter-Communication Center in Tokyo and the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

Matt is on the faculty of the Canadian Film Centre’s Interactive Art and Entertainment Program, where he developed the Physical and Spatial Media curriculum. He also teaches a course on progress and sustainability at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

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