Michael Naimark, M.S.

Research Associate Professor

213.821.2515
mnaimark@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 310B

Michael Naimark is a longtime media artist and researcher. He is expert in “place representation” and has worked extensively with experimental field cinematography, interactive systems, and immersive projection. His work is an unusual combination of optimism and activism (for example, it currently ranks #1 on Google searches for both VR webcams and camera zapper).
 
Naimark was on the original design team for the MIT Media Lab in 1980 and was a founding member of the Atari Research Lab (1982), the Apple Multimedia Lab (1987), Lucasfilm Interactive (now Lucas Learning, 1989), and Interval Research (1992, where he remained until 2001). His art projects are in the permanent collections of the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and the Centre for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe.
 
He currently serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Media Lab, the Scientific Council of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media Art Research in Linz, the Board of Directors of the Zero One Network in San Jose, and the International Advisory Board Leonardo/ISAST. He has been a member of the Society for Visual Anthropology since 1984.