Over Coffee® is on holiday hiatus. Please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2024.

"Women have a lot of power," says pioneering immersive artist Trish Gianakis.

Her work, in VR, AR and XR, explores this power, even as it empowers.

Trish, who created one of New York's first virtual-reality art experience, has a Master’s degree in Fine Arts Computer Art and Art Installation from New York City’s School of Visual Arts. Among the accolades her work has received are an Emmy Award for “Best On-Air Graphics”, a Golden Addy Award for “Best Interactive Web Design” and the “Best in Show” award at Tempe, Arizona’s “Mill Avenue Artist Festival”, two years in a row.

A poet and sculptor, among her other professional classifications, Trish teaches in the Fine Arts Department of Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City. She is also Adjunct

professor for FIT’s Unity XR: AR, MR, VR Development Certificate Program, and teaches private art lessons and workshops at her studio.

Trish talked about her creative journey, offered a closer look at several of the works in her immersive gallery and previewed what’s next!