Chris Milk is the founder and CEO of the virtual reality technology company Within, and founder and Creative Director of virtual reality production company Here Be Dragons. An accomplished visual artist, Milk began his career creating music videos for Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Beck, Jack White, U2, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, and many more. Known for weaving artistic and technological innovations in pursuit of the new aesthetic, Milk’s acclaimed interactive projects include Wilderness Downtown (with Arcade Fire), The Johnny Cash Project, and The Treachery of Sanctuary. His interactive installation artworks have been showcased at the MoMA, the Tate Modern, and museums the world over. Milk presented at TED 2015 on the power of virtual reality to advance humanity, and at TED 2016 on virtual reality as the last medium of storytelling. Milk has released projects on the Within platform that have been created in partnership with The New York Times, The United Nations, Apple, among others.
