Ethan Bach is an internationally known media artist who works primarily in immersive and interactive media. He received an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2008. As the Institute of American Indian Arts' Digital Dome Director, Bach served as a research associate for a National Science Foundation grant developing tools and content for fulldome environments. He has also developed curriculum and teaches a number of undergraduate courses at IAIA including, "Creating Content for the Dome," "Digital Dome Production," and "Future Trends in New Media." Bach's artistic expertise in experimental film won him awards from the Santa Fe Arts Commission and New Mexico Film Visions. Solo Exhibitions include the interactive, real-time international storytelling installation, "Retrieving Humanity" (2010) at the Santa Fe Complex, as well as the interactive video installations "Into the Unknown" (2010) at the MOV-iN Fine Arts Gallery in Santa Fe, and "Translations" (2010) at the NW Film Forum Lobby in Seattle. He has been invited to show at international experimental media and film exhibitions from Bangalore to Madrid. Bach is currently working in collaboration project, "The Royal Road", an immersive journey along one of the most significant trails in early North American history, the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. The trail's physical and cultural transformation from pre-colonization to the modern age will displayed through an interactive installation based on geolocative data, mapping, HDR gigapixel photography, video, 3D audio, and physical and 3D modeling