Ingrid Kopp

Ingrid Kopp is Co-founder and Director of Labs and Partnerships at Electric South, a non-profit organization based in Cape Town that develops new forms of storytelling across Africa. Electric South works with interdisciplinary artists across the continent to incubate and fund immersive work and has recently started working on research and policy work to build and strengthen the creative ecosystem. Ingrid produces and facilitates the New Dimensions Lab and is an executive producer on award winning VR projects, including The Other Dakar, Le Lac, Azibuye – The Occupation, and Container. She was co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Metaverse at the World Economic Forum until the end of 2024. Along with MIT’s Open DocLab and Dot Connector Studio, she produced Immerse, a monthly publication on emerging nonfiction storytelling until 2023. 

Ingrid also curated the Tribeca Storyscapes programme for interactive and immersive work at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Ingrid was director of the Interactive Department at the Tribeca Film Institute until 2015 when she moved back to South Africa. Through the TFI New Media Fund she supported groundbreaking projects like The Enemy, Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, and Traveling While Black. Ingrid created the Institute’s other digital and interactive programs, including the TFI Interactive conference and Tribeca Hacks, bringing storytellers, technologists, activists and designers together to explore new collaborations. She began her career in the documentaries department at Channel 4 Television in the UK.