Pascal Maeder

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Pascal Maeder is a Swiss-Canadian film producer and cyberneticist. [1]

In 2020, he launched x-ode, an XR messaging app enabling its users to connect with one another based on shared experiences in the real world. The app was developed by Urbanoid, a technology company founded by Maeder with hubs in Switzerland and Canada. [1] [2]

Maeder had previously founded Atopia, a film production company through which he produced and released several feature films including S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic (2001), A Silent Love (2004) and Je me souviens (2009). [3] [4]

Maeder studied film production at Concordia University in the late 1980s before co-founding Dummies Theatre, an experimental and interdisciplinary theatre company known for creating free site-specific works in vacant stores in Montreal during the 1990s. [5]

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