Andrés Burbano
crafts immersive stories,
impact-driven XR experiences
and digital platforms
in community.
About
Director, producer and creative technologist weaving digital art, XR technologies and social justice. Founder of CANVAR and co-founder of MAIX and XRCol, I lead immersive projects that spotlight underrepresented narratives. As a Sundance Institute: Art of Practice fellow and member of Unity for Humanity and XR LATAM, I guide artists and communities in creating interactive, memory-driven and socially engaged experiences.
CollaborateRecent Works
Selection of XR and Transmedia projects delivered in Europe and Latin America.
Sexilio
Immersive VR experience portraying the journey of trans migrant women from Latin America to Paris. Technical direction, production and CNC funding for a sensitive story on migration, identity and systemic violence. Unity for Humanity and IDFA DocLab Forum winner.
link- Social VR
- Production
HAWAF – Palais de Tokyo
Interactive VR installation with six degrees of freedom for Meta Quest 3 and Wwise spatial audio. Presented at Palais de Tokyo and the ArtExplorer museum boat with real-time artwork selection.
- Immersive colective and interactive installation
- Spatial audio
Paramoverso
Multi-user eXperience for conserving Colombian páramos. Cross-platform development (desktop, mobile, VR) with team mentorship and co-production on technical and narrative arcs.
link- Environmental XR
- Multiplatform
Atelier de Nuages
Augmented reality experience commissioned by the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Digital complement to a collaborative Gazan painting, offering interactive curation and situated storytelling.
link- AR
- Interactive curation
Off-Site - برا
Through a virtual reality experience, the public is invited to follow the tigress through this desolate place, to manually collect each lost painting and send them back to the Sahab Museum, a place of memory where they belong.It was commissioned by ArtExplora
- VR
- Social impact
- Spatial audio
Colombia Resiste 360
Immersive 360° video to document Colombia's 2021 protests. 360° experience amplifying local and diaspora voices.
link- 360°
- Documentary
Expertise
Art direction & XR production, Creative technology & immersive prototyping, Web & multimodal platform development, Mentorship, juries and Transmedia support, Applied research and digital art curation, International community leadership.
Experience
Sexilio
Technical director, creative technologist & producer
2025
Design and production of a VR experience on the migration journey of trans women from Latin America to Paris. Technical leadership, immersive storytelling and CNC funding.
HAWAF Immersive Experience
VR Producer
2024 – 2025
Production of interactive VR installations (Meta Quest 3) for Palais de Tokyo and the traveling ArtExplorer museum. Wwise spatial audio integration and 200 m² interactive scenography.
MCLedger
CTO – sustainable web platforms
2020 – 2025
Led digital products (My Modal Lite, GESCOIN, BEL AMI, BACIDF) for low-carbon multimodal transport. Backend Node.js architecture, cloud CI/CD and SCRUM teams.
XR LATAM & MAIX
Mentor, jury & community support
2021 – 2025
Mentored award-winning Transmedia XR projects, managed the Artizen Community Fund and served on XR LATAM and ICANH juries. Distribution strategy, sponsorship and international visibility.
Shopline Electronic
Head of IT studies
2013 – 2020
Managed teams for an IoT counting ecosystem (2D/3D, LoRAWAN), BI web portals and fleets of smart devices. Cloud deployments, security and technical training.
Education
PhD in 3D Imaging and Embedded Systems
Université Paris-Saclay (Paris Sud)
2018
Research on human tracking using distributed 3D cameras and embedded systems. CIFRE (ANRT) and Colfuturo fellowships.
Master in Information Systems Engineering and Networks
ECE Paris École d'Ingénieurs
2013
Specialization in information systems, networks and global fabrication (UCI Irvine, 2012).
Information systems engineer
ECI Colombian School of Engineering J. Garavito
2008
Engineering training focused on software and technological project management.
Get In Touch
Have an immersive project, residency or idea to prototype? Let's talk XR, interactive storytelling and sustainable platforms.