J-Walt is a director, performer, interactive designer, filmmaker, graphic artist, music composer, and VR pioneer. For over three decades, he has been at the forefront of interactive art and computer performance, expanding the uses of computer animation into uncharted territories. His Lucid Dreamscapes performances combine aspects of animation, video games, music, theater, dance, and architecture into a seamless new art form. He has performed for thrilled audiences around the US and worldwide. He creates art and performances in large immersive spaces, a form of group VR.

In March of 2006, J-Walt won an Academy Award for his development of a real-time pre-visualization system. In 2003, he received a Themed Entertainment Award for his digital puppetry attraction, spawning a new generation of digital puppet for theme parks. He produced location-based video games for Sony. He was a founding member of Disney's VR studio, which created one of the longest continuously-operated VR attractions in history.

J-Walt grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and attended the Experimental Animation department of CalArts, graduating in 1988. J-Walt's movies and images have been exhibited at Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, MOCA, Sinking Creek Film Festival, New York Animation Festival, DomeFest, and others. In his spare time, he founded and ran the Los Angeles Abstract Movie Workshop. He lives in Altadena, California.