Carol Silverman is a storyteller working at the intersection of material culture and technology. Her work centers on the narrative power of objects, exploring how the worn, used, tactile things around us can reveal profound truths about ourselves if we take a moment to listen. She created the room scale VR experience BELONGINGS, which was an official selection at the 2021 Raindance Immersive, FIVARS, and Animation Nights NY Best of Fest festivals.
Carol’s career as a set decorator for film and television informs her artistic practice through immersive engagement with material culture. She has worked on diverse productions ranging from Saturday Night Live parody commercials to the feature film The Hoax, directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Richard Gere. Her work on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire was recognized by the Television Academy with four Emmy Awards.
Carol has been part of New York’s XR community since 2017, engaging with the transformative potential of virtual and augmented reality for storytelling. She received her MFA in Visual Narrative from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2020.
