Dr. Devon Baur is a Lecturer and AI Fellow at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, where she teaches courses on performance and technology, curates public events, and investigates how the live arts might reshape artificial intelligence, and vice versa.
Her research is dedicated to the interplay of art and technology, with a special focus on the senses. She is currently working on her first monograph, Scent Trails, which explores how technology expands and limits the human sensorium. Her work has been published in Theatre Journal, TDR, and other venues and she is currently co-editing the anthology Sensory Dramaturgy: Aesthetics for Nervous Systems, with Elizabeth McQueen and Sean Metzger.
Beyond her scholarship, she maintains a public-facing practice through collaborations with technology labs and the XR industry. She held a five-year residency in Stanford’s Electrical Engineering Department, where she developed Smell.Print., a multisensory installation that was presented in a solo exhibition by the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles and in a pop-up screening by The Getty and NASA JPL. She has also held fellowships in the Multi-Sensory Devices Group at University College London, and in both the Center for Engineering Media and Performance (REMAP) and the Center for Scholars and Storytellers at UCLA. As an XR producer and curator, her work includes the award-winning Tree VR, which toured to over 100 festivals including Cannes, Tribeca, and twice to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
She holds three degrees in Theater and Performance Studies: a PhD from UCLA (USA), an MPhil from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and a BA from Aberystwyth University (UK).