Team Members
Aaron Benevides
Web3 Community Developer
Aaron Benavides is an artist and musician based in Austin, TX. He's a founding member of Touch Collective and a creative technologist with Cymantix Design. His mission is to radically improve the relationships we have with ourselves, our communities and our environments through the creation of sublime artistic experiences.
Andrew Lee
Producer, Founder
Andrew Lee produces short, feature and commercial content. Andrew produced the cult classic, DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2011). He shifted to producing feature sports comedy, Intramural (Tribeca Film Festival) and Rooster Teeth’s sci-fi comedy, Crunch Time. He also co-produced award-winning docs, Dealt (SXSW 2017) & Seadrift (Slamdance 2019), and Jump Shot (SXSW 2019).
Shanta Stevens
Executive Producer
Shanta Stevens facilitates transformative transmedia experiences. He focuses on collaborative scripting of interactive journeys through immersive & reconfigurable MR games with colleagues from Burning Man, Plutopia, Hanson Robotics, and Meow Wolf.
Taylor Christian
Web3 Community Developer
Taylor Christensen is an Austin based artist, experience designer, and activist. Taylor’s experience in event production and strategy dev on large scale art projects, Burning Man temple. Taylor founded Cymantix Spatial Design focused on the intersection of art, technology, and community. board member of RestPit, a non-profit harm reduction group that serves music related events.
Yuan Wang
Executive Producer
Yuan spent decades working in the video games industry as a creator, technologist, and executive at companies including LucasArts, Disney, and Blizzard Entertainment. He is also a psychedelic explorer who has spent time working with traditional shamans in South America and is currently focused on Metaverse creator projects and plant medicine education and advocacy.
Mitch Schultz
Creative Director, Founder
Mitch’s curiosity of the unknown universe forged his path in storytelling, and his creative experience as a transmedia producer, experience designer, and educator. His work explores the inherent connections among consciousness, nature, culture, and the evolving human story. Art-Info-Tech inspires and informs his academic research (UT Austin & NYU) and his ongoing curiosity of future evolution.