Devon is a scholar and curator whose career has been dedicated to the interplay of art and technology. Her research focuses on performance, new media, and the senses (with a particular focus on smell). She is currently finishing a Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. Her dissertation explores how technology expands (and limits) the human sensorium – and it looks at new artists and cutting-edge tools that might push us beyond the audio-visual hierarchy. 

Beyond her scholarship, she also has public-facing praxis and collaborates with technology labs. She has held a five-year residency in Stanford’s Electrical Engineering department (as a researcher and artist-in-residence). During this time, she embarked on interdisciplinary projects that explored multisensory storytelling in virtual spaces. A highlight was her art installation Smell.Print. , which had a solo exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles and was curated in a special screening hosted by The Getty and NASA JPL. She also held residencies/fellowships in the Multi-Sensory Devices Group at the University College of London, and in both the Center for Engineering Media and Performance (REMAP) and the Center for Scholars and Storytellers at UCLA. 

Prior to this, she worked in the VR/AR industry for over half a decade as both a curator and producer. Most notably, she produced the award-winning Tree VR, which toured to over 90 festivals, including Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and twice to the World Economic Forum in Davos. As a curator, she was lauded by the LA Times for her programming as the Director of the Topanga Film Institute. 

She holds a MPhil from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and a BA from Aberystwyth University (UK).