Patrick Parra Pennefather
About Patrick Parra Pennefather
Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (UBC), Centre for Digital Media, Design for Humans, Composer and Designer
Location
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
Dr. Patrick Parra Pennefather is an Associate professor at UBC and a faculty in residence at UBC’s Emerging Media Lab. He teaches sound design, collaborative methods, and emerging technology development. He’s mentored multi-disciplinary teams co-constructing scalable digital prototypes with more than 50 client partners including EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft. He’s facilitated dynamic workshops internationally including SXSW and SIGGRAPH. His course draws from: 1)experience working with organizations, institutions and companies for the past 3 years, 3)25 years of teaching, and 2)his latest book Regenerating Learning aimed at working professionals. In this course he will facilitate his Onboarding Generative AI Canvas targeting individuals and small teams to integrate AI systems identifying needs, challenges, opportunities and value.
Patrick is an award-winning sound designer and composer for live and mediated productions having worked on over 250 productions in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia including SIGGRAPH. He meddles in mixed reality as curator, creator, teacher and investigator. He is co-appointed at UBC’s Theatre & Film program in Design & Production and at the Master of Digital Media Program where he has collaborated with companies, researchers and non-profits engaging audiences in new ways with emerging technologies. Keywords: mixed reality, audience experience, spatial audio, project-based learning.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Birds of a Feather
Learning
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Art Papers and Presentations
Business
Courses
Special Sessions
Courses Organized
- “Workshop: Onboarding Generative AI: A Hands-On Workshop” by Pennefather
Other Information
Roles
- Art Papers Author
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Business Symposium Presenter
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Special Session Presenter
- VR Theater Jury Member
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