Dean (Deniz) de Barros is a queer, multilingual storyteller, mixed media artist and director with a penchant for immersive, collaborative narrativisation. They are particularly interested in the ways that synergetic storying can produce empathetic, human connections as a tool for positive social change.

Working in traditional narrative media (animations and short films) with an interest in interactive transmedia potentials, they seek to lead their storytelling with scholarship and research in order to produce compelling stories that centre queer and minority voices.

Their recent MA in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art has led them to explore new modes of enquiry in installation and multi-sensory storytelling, engaging audiences in transmedia landscapes that beckon further exploration and curiosity.

Dean frequently collaborates with musicians and other artists to produce these collage possibilities and conducts primary research in the processes of conceptualisation and writing. They graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in History of Art and are now seeking to continue to push the boundaries of immersive storytelling.