Born and raised in one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas to a Polish and Romanian family, Prof Jorge Lopes Ramos is an award winning London-based artist, curator and researcher working at the intersection between art, technology, games and social impact.
Jorge is co-founder and Executive Director of East London venue G.A.S. Station (Games and Arts Stratford) and theatre/digital arts company ZU-UK.
Jorge is also a long term research collaborator at T.A.G. Montréal (Technoculture, Arts and Games, Concordia University), and Professor at the University of Greenwich, where he leads the Centre for Creative Futures and the Practice Hub. His artistic work has won awards and nominations in the fields of immersive theatre, hybrid art, technology and social impact.