Josephine Anstey’s main creative and research focus is the production of interactive fiction & drama and intermedia performance. Since 1996 she has created virtual reality dramas populated by intelligent agents and networked human actors. These dramas are experienced on large projection-based VR systems such as the CAVE.

She is a founding member of the Intermedia Performance Studio at the University at Buffalo, an experimental center for collaboration among media creators, dramatic performers, and computer technologists. She is also part of a group of artists who have been exhibiting networked VR projects worldwide since 2001 and a related area of interest is research into low-cost VR systems.

Experiments with narrative and dramatic forms have been a constant theme in her practice which includes a long collaboration with Julie Zando on a series of video-art pieces. Her other projects include interactive installations, documentary, web and prose fiction.

Her VR and video works have shown widely in the US, in Europe and Japan, and she has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Her videos have won awards including Best Narrative Video Award at the Atlanta Film and Video Festival 1990. In 1996 she won the Chelsea Award for short fiction and in 1997 she won Multimedia Grand Prix 97 Award from the Multi-Media Content Association of Japan.

She is an Associate Professor in the Media Study Department of the University at Buffalo (UB), where she teaches production and analysis courses focusing on game studies, interactive fiction, virtual reality and responsive environments.