Marientina Gotsis, M.F.A.

Media Lab Manager

213.740.3159
mgotsis@cinema.usc.edu
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As the Media Lab Manager for the Interactive Media Division (IMD), Gotsis manages technology infrastructure, oversees research development and directs several IMD research projects. Gotsis was recently interviewed by Fast Company magazine on future of sensor technologies and health games. Gotsis leads IMD’s Games for Health Initiative, connecting health professionals with innovation in various forms of interactive media.

Gotsis is project director and co-principal investigator on Wellness Partners, an intergenerational pilot project for health games research funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through a collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine, the School of Social Work and the USC Center for Work & Family Life. Students from her experimental games courses are developing three health games on nutrition, fitness and immunity for Humana’s Innovation Center in collaboration with the School of Social Work and the Viterbi School of Engineering. Gotsis is also collaborating with UCLA’s Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) and University of Washington’s Autism Center to evaluate a novel game controller and game for social skills training in children.

Previously, Gotsis taught art and technology courses at USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Harold Washington College (Chicago), Columbia College Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University and at the University of Southern California. Gotsis has fourteen years of experience as a designer and technologist. She has worked for companies such as Quicksilver Associates and Simmonet Marketing to design and develop materials for private companies such as Accenture, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Young Presidents Organization, government organizations such as the City of Santa Monica and not-for-profits such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Past clients include Tulane University, Great Northern Way Campus, the National Museum of Mexican Art and numerous small businesses.

She holds a B.F.A. in Photo/Film/Interactive Media and an M.F.A. in Electronic Visualization from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she was a research assistant on large-scale computing efforts for networked virtual reality (VR).