Creative Technologist and Educator

Building live worlds across performance, XR, AI, and real-time media.

Victor E. Morales is a Venezuelan-born multimedia artist, animator, and professor whose practice bridges immersive design, generative systems, and theatrical thinking.

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Overview

Professional practice shaped by performance and technology.

Currently a full-time faculty member at Montclair State University’s College of Communication and Media, Morales creates immersive worlds that merge theatrical philosophy with real-time 3D and AI systems.

His projects, including Rapid Transit, Desastres de la Guerra VR, and Esperpento (Sundance New Frontier 2019), combine experimental storytelling, political critique, and technological innovation across hybrid physical and digital spaces.

Selected Work

Projects in performance, immersive media, and speculative image-making.

2024

Desastres de la Guerra

A VR experience based on Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra, translating historical violence into an immersive, spatial form that invites reflection on war, memory, and mediated witnessing.

Recognition: 24 Frame Future Film Fest 2025, New Frontiers Competition, Second Best Work.

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2018-2019

Esperpento

A hybrid project spanning the live performance Two Black Lights & One Red and the video installation Caprichos, exploring technology as a new panacea entangled with social dysfunction, estrangement, and theatrical excess.

Recognition: Sundance New Frontier 2019.

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2025

Model Histories

An evolving multimedia installation and interactive archive by Victor Morales and Ben Williams that merges local history with generative AI, inviting audiences to question truth, memory, and machine-made images through a poetic, game-like interface.

First presented at the Red Hook Public Library in Dutchess County, New York, in October 2025.

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Teaching

Educating across creative technology, research, and emerging media practice.

Academic roles

Assistant Teaching Professor at Montclair State University CCOM
Adjunct Professor at NYU Tisch ITP

Approach

Morales connects technical experimentation with critical and performative thinking, helping students build original visual languages and new production pipelines.

Research Focus

Three current lines of inquiry.

Real-time media and performance

Exploring how live systems, simulation, and AI alter performance design and audience experience.

XR and the real/virtual threshold

Investigating immersive spaces where embodied presence and synthetic environments intersect.

Code vibing and creative pipelines

Developing playful, flexible workflows for image-making, prototyping, and hybrid production with emerging tools.

Contact

Available for academic, creative, and collaborative opportunities.

moralvictor@gmail.com vimeo.com/moralvictor

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