Keram Malicki-Sánchez is an actor, musician, writer, filmmaker, interactive media and virtual reality developer, multimedia artist, and event producer.

Acting career

Malicki-Sánchez is an actor with over 65 professional credits in theater, film, television and voiceover whose career debuted in musical theatre at the age of seven in the title role of ''Oliver!'' at the Limelight Dinner Theatre in Toronto. He later starred in the original musical version of Mordecai Richler's ''Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang'' (1984) which won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Revue or Musical, directed by Peter Moss. In 2013, in the role of Kenny, he was chainsawed in half by Leatherface in '' Texas Chainsaw 3D'', a film that MTV wrote "shocked the box office with #1 debut, topping both ''Django Unchained'' and ''The Hobbit''." In 2020 Malicki-Sanchez starred in the role of eccentric artist Zeke in a comedic web series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called 'Decoys' whose ensemble cast was nominated at the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Web Series.

Musical career

In 1987, at age 13, Malicki-Sanchez released a solo 45" on vinyl, in Spanish, through Ecuador's Fe Discos. In 1990, he founded the record label Constant Change Productions out of Toronto, and formed his band, Blue Dog Pict. The band released three albums: ''The Picture Album'' (1990), ''Anxiety of Influence: a nodding into...?'' (1992), and ''Spindly Light Und Wax Rocketines'' (1995), all distributed by Montreal's Distribution FUSION III. The band's song "One Hour's Sleep" was featured in the Degrassi High TV movie "School's Out." The band and its cult-like following is discussed in a section of the book "Any Night of the Week" about the history of Canadian rock music by Jonny Dovercourt. In 1995, Constant Change released ''Irrevocable Upgrade'', a compilation of exotic musical works which Malicki-Sanchez curated and produced. In 1998, Malicki-Sanchez launched the band Ribcage, with Eric Ryder Costello and Paul Gallinato, and toured Cleveland and New York, releasing one album, ''For Machines to Dream About''. In 2003 he wrote and performed the song ''The Truth Be Told'' for the film

Uptown Girls ''Uptown Girls'' is a 2003 American comedy-drama film directed by Boaz Yakin, from a screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs. It stars Brittany Murphy as a 22-year-old living a charmed lif ...

. In January 2008, Malicki-Sanchez began releasing albums under the solo name Keram, launching a music video for the song ''Antiskeptic'', before releasing his solo debut acoustic album ''Box''. In 2014, he released the album ''Come to Life'', which includes contributions from over 30 musicians, including Alex Lifeson on guitar. He later crowdfunded to produce three songs: ''(Don't Get Caught) By the Dazzling Charades'' (2018), ''Artificial Intelligence'' (2019) and ''That Light'' (2020). He has also composed for several movies shown on

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and PixL: ''Mr. Write'' (2016), ''Twist of Fate'' (2016), ''Bad Date Chronicles'' (2017),''Same Time Next Week'' (2017) and ''Sleeping With Danger'' (2020). and his music has been licensed to over 25 films and television shows.

Filmmaking

Malicki-Sanchez received certificates in cinematography, digital media, and film producing at

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. His first short film ''A Killer App'' won the Best Monster Creation award winner at the 2010 Shockfest Film Festival. His short film ''Tulip Pink'' was screened at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival and other film festivals. His third short ''How (Not) To Become a Vampire'' made the festival rounds in 2011, screening at the

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and winning a People's Choice Award at the Zero Film Festival in Toronto.

New media

In 1994, Malicki-Sánchez founded Robot Pride Day, an ironic annual festival that is still celebrated. In September 2008, Malicki-Sanchez launched Keramcast, a podcast that was a digest for the topics discussed on his various blogs, and at IndieGameReviewer.com, also referred to as 'IGR', an

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review blog. He maintains the position of editor-in-chief. In 2020 Malicki-Sanchez was the project lead for a company called Spatialized Events, which was dedicated to immersive media showcases in

WebXR WebXR Device API is a Web application programming interface (API) that describes support for accessing augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Google Cardboard, HoloLens, Magic Leap or O ...

. Working with lead developer James Baicoianu, he designed a variety 3D worlds for his

VRTO Started in 2015 by Keram Malicki-Sanchez as a virtual reality Meetup Group in Toronto, VRTO launched the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo in June 2016 – an international exhibition and professional conference explorin ...

and Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories virtual events using threejs and Blender, the latter could also play stereoscopic 5.7k spherical video with ambisonic audio, VOIP, and video chat (all programmed using the elation engine and powered by JanusWeb and

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. Malicki-Sanchez developed interfaces and tools to create a solution that could be licensed to 3rd party festivals and conferences. Eighty per cent of the codebase used JavaScript and the JanusXR codebase, with the remainder being

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, PHP, and HTML.

Virtual reality and immersive technology

In 2015, Malicki-Sanchez founded

– a Toronto-based virtual and augmented reality meetup whose inaugural event was held at Ryerson University's Student Learning Center, and Transportive Technology – a virtual-reality content production company which saw Malicki-Sanchez teaming up with Lee Towndrow to create one of the world's first 360

ASMR Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia a ...

Immersive video 360-degree videos, also known as surround video, or immersive videos or spherical videos, are video recordings where a view in every direction is recorded at the same time, shot using an omnidirectional camera or a collection of cameras. During p ...

s. This led to the creation of FIVARS, the "Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories" which he co-organized with technical director Joseph Ellsworth. FIVARS debuted at Toronto's Camp Wavelength music festival, and showed the first full viewing of ''MansLaughter'' by Cinemersia, which claims to be the world's first virtual reality feature film. FIVARS had its inaugural show in Toronto on 19 and 20 September 2015. The second FIVARS, which was September 16–18, 2016, was at MSMU Studios – a 5,000 square-foot Toronto warehouse redesigned for the festival. Malicki-Sanchez then created the

Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo which was staged at Toronto's Mattamy Athletic Centre (formerly Maple Leaf Gardens). Malicki-Sanchez has lectured or presented on Virtual Reality and its effects on society at Techweek Toronto, the Canadian National Exhibition, and Cinegear Expo, ideacity., SIGGRAPH, PXR, and in articles for the New Yorker, CBC Radio and other mainstream media. In 2020, Keram's essays were published in two books: ''Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media'', edited by

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and Kate McCallum, and ''Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology''. Also in 2020, Malicki-Sanchez moved the VRTO conference online, creating a multi-platform experience he coined 'The Flotilla'. It used a video-streaming conference app, the Mozilla Hubs web VR platform running custom code on the Amazon Web Services cloud and hosted a micro summit on accessibility. In October 2020, Malicki-Sanchez was interviewed by podcaster Kent Bye on Voices of VR about the creation of a 5.7k 360-degree screening space in

for the FIVARS festival. They discussed how, for FIVARS 2021, he created various 3D environments with Blender modelling software and brought them to life using the JanusWeb engine, JavaScript and

and co-developed an immersive 3-screen theater for the web-based event. He was interviewed a second time by Bye to discuss how to curate an international festival for WebXR in 2021 when FIVARS opened its first event in West Hollywood. In September 2021 Malicki-Sanchez was included in the 100 Original Voices in XR list created by former Apple and Google developer Avi Bar-Zeev. He was awarded "Creator of the Year" at 2022 Poly Awards for WebXR development of his WebXR festivals, world design, 360 video productions, and online conference. He produced and brought VRTO back as an in-person event 2022 through 2024 at OCAD University in Toronto, curating a conference about the current surge in text-to-image

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art and

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for television, live XR performance, and representation of diverse voices in the

spatial computing Spatial computing was defined in 2003 by Simon Greenwold, as "human interaction with a machine in which the machine retains and manipulates referents to real objects and spaces". With the advent of consumer virtual reality, augmented reality, and ...

industry. Be began teaching Blender for Web3D at UCLA Extension in the fall of 2022., which became Blender Foundations for Spatial Media in 2024, and a class on Generative artificial intelligence at UCLA Extension in the spring of 2023. He was the lead playtest designer on narrative cosmic horror VR experience Broken Spectre from Games by Stitch Studios which won the VR Awards Experience of the Year in 2023. He was recognized as an Ethical Value Awards Finalists by the national XRGuild in 2024. He taught a 3-hour course about digital immortalization and posthumous rights and ethics, involving volumetric capture,

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, AI, voice cloning with Dr.Jaquelin Ford Morie and Greg Panos at SIGGRAPH 2024.

Television appearances

* ''

Faerie Tale Theatre Faerie Tale Theatre (also known as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre) is an American live-action fairytale fantasy drama anthology television series of 27 episodes, that originally aired on Showtime from September 11, 1982 until November 14, 19 ...

'' (1985), Lame Boy, Willie * '' Amerika'' (1987), Young Caleb * '' I'll Take Manhattan'' (1987), Justin Amberville (child) * ''

Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness ''Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness'' was a Canadian educational television show from the 1980s intended to teach public health messages to children. The show's 13 episode arc featured Zardip Pacific, played by Keram Malicki-Sánchez, a robot ...

'' (1988), Zardip * '' The Ray Bradbury Theater'' (1988), Martin * ''Summer Storm'' (1988), Joey * '' Street Legal'' (1988), Tom Prouse * '' Friday the 13th: The Series'', Ricky (1988) and Peter Marshak (1989) * '' War of the Worlds'' (1989–1990), Ceeto * ''

Katts and Dog ''Katts and Dog'' is a French and Canadian-produced television series that ran from 1988 to 1993. It was known as ''Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop'' in the United States where it originally aired on CBN Cable/The Family Channel and ''Rintintin Junior'' in ...

'' (1992) * '' Catwalk'' (1992–1993), Johnny Camden * '' Ready or Not'' (1993–1996), The Liz * '' TekWar: TekLab'' (1994), Mustapha * ''

L.A. Doctors ''L.A. Doctors'' is an American medical drama television series set in a Los Angeles primary care practice. It ran on CBS from September 21, 1998 to May 10, 1999. It replaced ''Brooklyn South'' after its cancellation in May 1998. Premise Four L ...

'' (1999), Alex Atcheson * '' Silk Stalkings'' (1999), Lyn Mocrief and Monk * '' Late Last Night'' (1999), Drag Queen * ''

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' is an American supernatural fiction, supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. It is based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film), 1992 film of the same name, also written by W ...

'' (1999), Freddy Iverson - Episode " Earshot" * '' ER'' (1999), Rick and Goth Kid * '' 24'' (2001), Larry Rogow * '' The Guardian'' (2003), Lucas Farr * ''

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', also referred to as ''CSI'' and ''CSI: Las Vegas'', is an American procedural forensics crime drama television series that ran on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons. This wa ...

'' (2004), Jamal * '' The Jane Show'' (2004), Iggy * '' Without a Trace'' (2005), Scott * ''

The L Word ''The L Word'' is a television drama that aired on Showtime from January 18, 2004 to March 8, 2009. The series follows the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual women who live in West Hollywood, California. The premise originated with Ilene Ch ...

'' (2006), Chase * '' Saving Grace'' (2007), Razor * '' Endgame'' (2011), Naveed * ''

Charlie's Angels ''Charlie's Angels'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 115 episodes. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aa ...

'' (2011), Lee Bowen * '' The Mentalist'' (2012), Tookie Burroughs * '' Flashpoint'' (2012), Pete Joris * '' True Blood'' (2012), Elijah Stormer * '' Decoys'' (2020), Zeke

Filmography

* '' Eleni'' (1985), Nick's Son * '' Boulevard'' (1994), Sister * '' No Contest'' (1994), Cal * '' Skin Deep'' (1995), Chris Black * '' American History X'' (1998), Chris * '' Drive Me Crazy'' (1999), Rupert * '' Cherry Falls'' (2000), Timmy * '' Happy Campers'' (2001), Jasper * ''

Crazy/Beautiful ''Crazy/Beautiful'' (stylized as ''crazy/beautiful'') is a 2001 American teen romantic drama film starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. It is largely set at Palisades Charter High School and the surrounding area, including Downtown Los Angel ...

'' (2001), Foster * '' John Q'' (2002), Freddy B * ''

Global Heresy ''Global Heresy'' (alternately titled ''Rock My World'' in the United States and Canada) is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie, and starring Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright, Alicia Silverstone and Martin Clunes. The film cente ...

'' (''Rock My World'' (US)) (2002), Flit * ''Something In Between'' (2002), Jon Talents * '' The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea'' (2004), Virgil de Selincourt * '' Little Black Book'' (2004), Waiter * ''Queen West'' (2005), Ross * ''

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'' (2005), Frank * ''

Sex and Death 101 ''Sex and Death 101'' is a 2007 dark comedy science fiction film written and directed by Daniel Waters, released in the United States on April 4, 2008. The film marks the reunion of writer/director Daniel Waters and Winona Ryder, who previously ...

'' (2007), Master Bitchslap * '' Punisher: War Zone'' (2008), Ink * '' One Kine Day'' (2010), Vegas Mike * ''A Killer App'' (2010), Director/Writer/Producer/Editor * ''Tulip Pink'' (2011), Director/Writer/Producer * ''How (Not) To Become a Vampire'' (2011), Director/Producer/Editor * ''

Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy ''Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy'' is a 2011 Canadian film adaptation of the short story " The Undefeated" from the best-selling book '' Ecstasy'' by Irvine Welsh. Directed by Rob Heydon, the film stars Adam Sinclair as Lloyd Buist, a drug user who s ...

'' (2011), Ally * '' Texas Chainsaw 3D'' (2013), Kenny * ''The Christmas Switch'' (2014), Manny * ''Anyone Home?'' (2018), Dean * ''Being Perfectly Frank'' (2020), Kyle

Voice Acting appearances

* ''

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'' (1986), various * '' Clifford the Big Red Dog (1988) various * '' Garbage Pail Kids (1988) * '' Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood'' (2022), Felipe

References

External links

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ConstantChangeMedia.com

KeramSongs
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