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George Michael Brower (b. 1988) is a Brooklyn based artist making interactive experiences for the web and virtual reality. He is the founder of Always & Forever Computer Entertainment, where he practices a broad range of disciplines from design and motion graphics to music composition, 3D modelling and programming. Sitting somewhere between game studio and art practice, Always & Forever makes highly stylized, immersive experiences based around music and play. Most jiggle.

George graduated from UCLA's Design Media Arts department in 2010 and began his career at Google Creative Lab working as a designer and developer. There, he contributed to some of the web's most celebrated interactive content, beginning with Arcade Fire's seminal web-based music video, The Wilderness Downtown. In addition to his work promoting Google Chrome, George released open source libraries for making art with code, and directed interactive advertisements that ran in Times Square on some of the world's largest digital billboards.

After 5 years with Google, George formed Always & Forever, in search of a place where no one would dare put their money, to explore his art in the absence of a brief. The studio's first VR project, called Playthings, has been exhibited at TriBeCa Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and New York Fashion week. He currently serves on AIGA NY's Board of Directors and was named one of Print Magazine's New Visual Artists under 30.