Sara Tirelli is an artist and filmmaker with a focus on technology, the politics of media and immersivity. Her works explore how the “cinematic experience” shapes and redefines the concept of Reality. Sara Tirelli is currently the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of CSC Immersive Arts – a Centre for The Expanded Moving Image, a new department of the National Film School of Italy of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) dedicated to XR media and soon to be opened in Venice. As an artist and filmmaker, Tirelli’s videos and artworks have been featured in several exhibitions such as Q16. Quadriennale d’Arte of Rome, Sonje Art Centre of Seoul and Gothenburg Film Festival amongst others. In 2017 she won 3rd Prize of Deutsche Bank Video Award and in the same year she was selected as Artist in Production in Residency in Sweden where she developed her first VR artwork Medusa. She has held various panels about her research within immersive storytelling such as Bodies, Movement and AI in VR at Goldsmiths University of London, Future Narrative with Laurie Anderson at Film Festival Gothenburg, In 2019 she co-founded the VR Pavilion, an independent curatorial project launched in conjunction with the 58th Venice Art Biennale’s preview days. She is currently artist in residence at ERC Research Group An-ICON, University Statale of Milan.