Bay Backner is a web3 artist and the Head Producer at the Decentraland Foundation. She works with metaverse installation, immersive technologies and, often, oil paint, to produce shared virtual experiences. Bay is founder and director of MESH, the art fair for 3D, metaverse and VR creators, and co-founder of Vueltta, an international art collective producing immersive installations in the Decentraland metaverse. Bay’s work explores how shared virtual experience will shape society and identity. Her installations have been seen in CNN, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Vogue, WWD and Grazia magazines, and featured by Metaverse Art Week, NFT Show Europe, NFT Liverpool, ETH Barcelona and The Financial Times Digital Asset Summit. Notable works include DEAR VIVIENNE, the Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 tribute to Vivienne Westwood; REFUGE, the metaverse exhibition which raised over $28000 for Ukraine; and MUSES 2, which was likely to have been the first performance art piece in the metaverse, produced for Miami Art Week and The Royal House of Medici. Bay is Assistant Professor in Emerging Technologies for Berklee Valencia’s MA program in Global Entertainment. She regularly speaks on virtual experience, metaverse and spatial internet. She holds a degree in Physics from Oxford University and accreditations from Canterbury Christ Church University, The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
