JB Ghuman, Jr.

Born of a father from India & mother from America, JB Ghuman, Jr. is an award winning filmmaker & visual artist who's mediums span from animation, feature, music video, experimental, VR & most recently novelist. Ghuman has just released a 242 hard cover page art book of cerebral poetry titled "SPiNNiNG ON THE TiP OF iNFiNiTY" released world wide on Amazon Prime. He's best known for his feature film "SPORK" (Tribeca Audience Award Winner, HBO Award, #1 on Netflix), experimental film "The (ART) of BE(i)NG" (Sundance Film Festival centerpiece premiere, MOCA screened) "The Crown With A Shadow & The Search For Self" (animated short / final work of Pee Wee Herman & Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls) "paSSive poWer 4D VR" (Awareness Film Festival Grand Jury Best VR winner, Barcelona Film Festival Best In VR winner). He's been called a "visionary" by Martin Scorsese while on stage at the BFI London Film Festival while nominated for the prestigious Sutherland Trophy, tapped directly by Beyonce & Miley Cyrus regarding his art amongst numerous other things. Ghuman's passion for storytelling & expression have always been on the forefront of the zeitgeist, as he continues to carve his creative path forwards.

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Here is an artist talk with  JB Ghuman Jr., followed by a panel discussion with Alex Lee and Frédérick Maheux, where he shares his insights on the metaverse and his perspectives on virtual worlds.

"I would definitely consider myself a bit of a newbie with VR; more conventional film is kind of where I've come up the ranks. (...) And it was always sort of pivoted on the expansion of consciousness, including my own—not to project myself as someone who has already achieved that, but just as someone on a journey. (…) Consciousness would be someone's personal perspective of reality. It would be the perception of reality, limited to the scope that each of us has."

"When I think of the Metaverse, my first thought is—I don’t know—Facebook? (...) I would say it's a digital landscape where each of us has the potential to explore a version of ourselves, whether that be digitally, sonically, creatively, sexually, spiritually, or even just as an observer, or none of the above."

"From my perspective, I immediately saw the Metaverse as something shaped by perception—mine, yours, anyone's. Your perception of the Metaverse is, honestly, what it is. Without that injection of perception, it wouldn't really exist."

— J.B. Ghuman Jr.,

Check out more details about paSSive poWer, an 8K 4D 360 VR film experience directed by JB Ghuman Jr.: https://www.jbghumanjr.com/film