Chris Milk

Artist, Brainstormer, Entrepreneur, Filmmaker, Foodie, Inventor, Startup, Technologist

Chris Milk is an American entrepreneur, director, inventor, and immersive artist. He is co-founder and CEO of Within, a company using immersive technologies to build products for transformative experiences. Within is behind Supernatural, the leading virtual reality fitness, health and wellness app; as well as Wonderscope, the revolutionary augmented reality app for children, which uses educational immersive experiences to hone reading and language skills. Milk’s early work in music videos and photography has expanded to include experimental genres and mediums. He places creative expression and human connection at the heart of immersive experiences while using new technologies as a canvas. As a music video director, Milk has collaborated artists including Arcade Fire, Beck, Jack White, U2, Johnny Cash, Kanye West, Green Day, Norah Jones, Pharrell, Gnarls Barkley, Audioslave, OK Go, Common, John Legend, The Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. Milk's interactive installation artworks have been exhibited around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Barbican Centre in London, Cent Quatre in Paris, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Davos. Milk has been honored with awards including 2 Cannes Lions Grand Prixs, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, SXSW's 'Best of Show,' an MTV Moon Man, the UK MVA Innovation Award, Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards recognition, multiple Grammy Award nominations, and 14 Webby Awards. Milk was named to the "100 Most Creative People in Business" list by Fast Company twice; "100 Most Innovative People" by Wired magazine; "25 Most Powerful Digital Players in Los Angeles" by The Hollywood Reporter; "50 Most Creative People" by Advertising Age; and was given the “Media & Entertainment Leadership Award” by Variety Magazine. Milk has used cross-media innovations to expose the beauty in our everyday experiences, whether they be physical or digital. He has partnered with Arcade Fire several times in order to create groundbreaking interactive experiences including the online project “The Wilderness Downtown” and “Summer Into Dust” during their seminal performance at Coachella 2011; he designed the first omni-directional facing binaural 3D sound recording instrument; and he created the first live-action virtual reality film in collaboration with Beck. Milk has presented at two TED conferences; once in 2015 on the power of virtual reality to advance humanity, and in 2016 on virtual reality as the last medium of storytelling. Wonderscope was acquired by children’s education and technology company Amira Learning in 2022 and Supernatural was acquired by Meta in 2023. Milk was born and raised on Long Island NY, spent most of his career based in Los Angeles, and recently moved to Redding Connecticut.

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