Resume
XR/AI Developer · Media Designer · Storyteller
Languages: Spanish (Native) · English (C2) · German (A2)
Specialties: XR (AR,VR,MR) Development · 3D · Prototyping · Storytelling · Gen AI and Media Design
Skills: Unity/C# · 3D Modelling · Animation · Illustration · Gen AI · Video Editing · Blender · Photoshop · Premiere · Illustrator · ComfyUI · LLMs
Experience
Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt — Assistant Researcher
August 2025 – Present
Prototype development for the AR/VR department.
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences — Working Student
October 2022 – May 2025 · Dieburg
- Student contracts at University
- Adobe Premiere workshops for incoming students
- Tech-arts support classes
- Exchange workshops for Jordanian students
- Media campus equipment rental staff
Creative Studio Ditached, Offenbach am Main — Working Student
June 2023 – April 2024
Integrated into Ditached’s ongoing projects:
- AI image/video generation (Stable Diffusion, A1111, ComfyUI)
- Character design, storyboarding, concept art (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- 3D modeling, animation, texturing (Blender)
- Game prototyping, animation (Unity)
- Version control (Git/GitHub)
DieKunstBauStelle e.V., Landsberg am Lech and Unser Theater, Schwabhausen — Freelancer
October 2020 – Present
- Media design and video editing for cultural associations
- Graphic design and print materials
- Video documentation of exhibitions, festivals, cultural events
- Digital exhibition archives
- 2020: “2020 – 1945” — Rapid digitalisation of a cancelled cultural salon exhibition during the pandemic
Lidera Turismo, Argentina — Media Designer
March 2015 – March 2018
Designed graphics and video editing for a tourism agency.
Education
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences — Master of Arts
Expanded Media · 2025 – Present · Dieburg
Experience Design for Immersive Spaces and Narrative Engagement. Focus on XR.
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences — Bachelor of Arts
Expanded Realities · 2022–2025 · Dieburg
Project-based program in XR/AR/VR design, development, production, and marketing.
Universidad Nacional de Tucúman, Argentina — Media Production
Major in Project Direction · 2010–2013
Instituto Juvenil Moderno, Argentina — Bachelor of Arts
Graphic Design · 2007–2009
Other
Germany
- XR Creators Con (2024, 2026), Berlin
- SenAi Hack 2025, Cologne
- Places — VR Festival + AR Hackathon (Theme: Retail), Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf (2023)
- 2023: The Flute — Remote Tandem Backpacking. International Youth Exchange Workshops (Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria), held by MMCC (Netherlands) and DieKunstBauStelle e.V. (Germany)
- Photogrammetry and NeRFs workshop, Hochschule Darmstadt
- Generative AI workshop, Hochschule Darmstadt
Oman · Oman University of Technology
Jordan · German Jordanian University
Cyprus · American University of Beirut / Technical University of Cyprus
- Digitalization of Cultural Heritage workshop
- AI-driven skills for Digital Worlds — Erasmus BIP program
Argentina
- 2016–2017: Escena Pública — Residency for emerging Argentinian artists, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina
- 2016: Bicentenario Fantástico — Comic book anthology celebrating Argentina’s bicentenary of independence
Acknowledgments
Research Center for Creative Arts and Public Value — Hong Kong (2026)
Artist in Residence for a virtual exhibition and physical catalogue.
UnitedXR, Belgium (2025)
Pitched a concept and prototype to investors in the Builder’s Program.
XRHack, Cologne (2025)
Won 1st place with my team in the venue Horizon Worlds.
HAB — Hessen Abschlussförderung (2024/25)
Funded my Bachelor thesis “Storytelling with AI driven characters in Mixed Reality.”
XRBootcamp — Beyond Inclusion Scholarship
Grantee and, due to my previous experience, Community Mentor of XRbootcamp’s 9th cohort.
Gonzalo Orce Portfolio 