LaJuné McMillian

LaJuné McMillian is a New Media Artist and Creative Technologist creating art that integrates performance, virtual reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication.

LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at Pioneer Works, National Sawdust, Leaders in Software and Art, Creative Tech Week, and Art && Code's Weird Reality. They were the Character Animator for NeuroSpeculativeAfrofeminism which premiered at Sundance in 2017, and toured at various festivals and conferences.

LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and Figure Skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They continued their research on Blackness, Movement, and Technology during Eyebeam's Access Residency, which started in November 2018. At Barnard, LaJuné taught an introduction to Motion Capture, a class in which students learned about rigging and Modeling tools, studied how to import characters with animation to enhance Virtual environments, and discussed and brainstormed ways to integrate motion capture and extended reality into performance.