Michael Naimark
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Michael Naimark is a media artist and researcher who often explores “place representation.”
(1987), Lucasfilm Interactive
(1989), and Interval Research Corporation
(1992). At MIT, Naimark helped put together the Aspen Movie Map
, a seminal hypermedia project, and continued making moviemaps around the world. At Interval, he founded a live web video spinoff venture, Kundi.com.
Naimark's artwork is included in the permanent collections of the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the ZKM | Center for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. His large-scale installations include projected living rooms spray painted white and stereo-panoramic rooms with rotating floors.
Naimark is currently a Research Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Division
at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he coined the terms Google Jockey and Google Feeling Lucky List. He lives in New York City
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Biography
Naimark helped found a number of prominent research labs including the MIT Media Laboratory (1980), the Atari Research Lab (1982), the Apple Multimedia LabApple Multimedia Lab
The Apple Multimedia Lab was a pioneering electronic media research group operated by Apple Computer. It was founded in 1987 by cognitive psychologist Kristina Hooper Woolsey....
(1987), Lucasfilm Interactive
LucasArts
LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...
(1989), and Interval Research Corporation
Interval Research Corporation
- External links :* Wired Magazine, December 1999...
(1992). At MIT, Naimark helped put together the Aspen Movie Map
Aspen Movie Map
The Aspen Movie Map was a revolutionary hypermedia system developed at MIT by a team working with Andrew Lippman in 1978 with funding from ARPA.-Features:...
, a seminal hypermedia project, and continued making moviemaps around the world. At Interval, he founded a live web video spinoff venture, Kundi.com.
Naimark's artwork is included in the permanent collections of the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the ZKM | Center for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. His large-scale installations include projected living rooms spray painted white and stereo-panoramic rooms with rotating floors.
Naimark is currently a Research Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Division
USC Interactive Media Division
The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in 2002. In addition to coursework in film production, screenwriting, and animation, students in the division study across three disciplines within interactive media: immersive...
at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he coined the terms Google Jockey and Google Feeling Lucky List. He lives in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
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