Scott Snibbe is a new media artist, author, and meditation instructor. He serves as the executive director of A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, and hosts its popular meditation podcast. In 2024, Snibbe released his first book, How to Train a Happy Mind, featuring a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

As a pioneer of interactive art, Snibbe’s installations have been incorporated into concert tours, museums, and public spaces. He has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, Philip Glass, Beck, and James Cameron. His work can be found in the collections of New York MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other institutions. 

Snibbe has produced several bestselling art apps, including the world’s first “app album” Björk: Biophilia. He was the founder of social music video startup Eyegroove that was later acquired to incorporate its augmented reality video effects into Instagram. Snibbe began his career as one of the early developers of Adobe After Effects, and spent several years at Paul Allen’s Interval Research Corporation researching interactive music, video, computer vision, and haptics.

Snibbe holds over thirty patents, and has received the Webby and Ars Electronica awards, and grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has served as an advisor to The Institute for the Future and The Sundance Institute and held teaching and research positions at UC Berkeley, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematics, San Francisco Art Institute, and California Institute for the Arts. He is a longtime student of Tibetan Buddhism.