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Multimedia Producer, Musician, Actor

Keram Malicki Sánchez is an actor, musician, writer, filmmaker, interactive media and virtual reality developer, multimedia artist, and event producer. Malicki Sanchez founded VRTO, an international conference based in Toronto focused on virtual reality, augmented reality and spatial computing.

Malicki Sánchez began acting at the age of seven in musical theatre 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. He is known for playing the lead role and guitarist Jonny Camden in Franklin Waterman Entertainment's TV series about the fictional band Catwalk in the 1990s opposite Neve Campbell. In 2013, in the role of Kenny, he was chainsawed in half by Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw 3D. 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.

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." In 1995, Constant Change released Irrevocable Upgrade, a compilation of exotic musical works that 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. 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 Lifetime Movie Network 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.

Malicki Sanchez received certificates in cinematography, digital media, and film producing at UCLA Extension. 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 Austin Film Festival and winning a People's Choice Award at the Zero Film Festival in Toronto.

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 indie game 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. Working with lead developer James Baicoianu, he designed a variety 3D worlds for his VRTO 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 AWS. 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 CSS, PHP, and HTML.

In 2015, Malicki Sanchez founded VRTO, a Toronto based meetup group focused on virtual reality and augmented reality. In the same year, he founded Transportive Technology, a virtual reality content production company where he teamed up with Lee Towndrow to create one of the world's first 360 ASMR Immersive videos. 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 VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo which was staged at Toronto's Mattamy Athletic Centre (formerly Maple Leaf Gardens). 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 WebXR 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 WebXR 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 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 July 20 21st at OCAD University in Toronto, curating a conference about the current surge in text to image GAN art and virtual production for television. Malicki Sanchez 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. In 2024, he was recognized as an Ethical Value Awards Finalist by the XR Guild. He was creative lead and producer of the Canadian Hispanic Latin American Virtual Museum, a project that used photogrammetry. 360 video, webXR and was funded by the Federal Government of Canada. It was launched via a reception at Humber College April 20th 2024.