Joel Cares is a director, creative developer, man of his word, certified Real Person™. His work spans film, animation, websites, bots with personality, internet culture, and awkward ways of collaborating online. He has directed plays, hosted rap battle competitions, programmed games, produced festivals, and built online communities around collaborative creative experiments.

He is interested in digital folklore, strange rabbit holes, transient memory, and earnest attempts to make sense of being alive. His work is Very Serious™, absurd, and sits somewhere between deadpan and grotesque. He now works with artists, developers, animators, filmmakers, and internet weirdos, building teams around deeply unnecessary ideas.