Olya Dubatova is a co-founder of BlenderLabs, USC – an innovative research lab that combines Art, Engineering and Social Practice – a university initiative to unite these three disciplines and blur rigid boundaries between them.
In 2016 “Byzantium 2.0 Acoustic Time Travel” – a collaborative project by Olya Dubatova, James Donahue (Berklee School of Music), Sharon Gerstel (UCLA), Chris Kyriakakis (USC) was awarded prestigious USC Arts and Humanities Initiative Visions and Voices Grant.