Will Scarlett holds a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. His current project, Being There and Not There, explores interactions between the senses and their surroundings that generate experiences of presence in environments such as virtual reality, the forest, the city, and the ocean. His writings include Utopias of the Surface (Public Seminar), Innervating the Image Sphere (New Writing), Movement Lab (Future Studies), and Swimming (Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age). He has taught courses at the New School titled Presence, Cine-Eye, Technics of the Body, and Sensory Worlds, and has presented at the New School, the Experimental Virtual Environments for Neuroscience and Technology (Event) Lab in Barcelona, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.