Michael Naimark is an artist, inventor, scholar, and coach in emergent media and immersive experiences. (from Medium.com)


artist - over 300 exhibitions, film festivals, and presentations around the world
- World Technology Award in the Arts recipient (2002), International Symposium on Electronic Art keynote (2013), MIT VR panel on creativity chair (2015) 
VIDEO "Art & Invention" (20 min) Gray Area Foundation artist presentation (2015) 

inventor - 16 patents issued relating to cameras, display, haptics, and live
- noted in histories of Google Street View, Projection Mapping, and Virtual Reality (and, some claim, the Facebook Like Button)
VIDEO "I used to Think Patents were Cool" (40 min) ZERO1 exhibition opening remarks (2013)

scholar - 26 juried publications, book chapters, and published essays
- faculty at NYU ITP, USC Cinema, and the MIT Media Lab since 2009
VIDEO "Thereness" (40 min) Designers + Geeks VR presentation (2015)

coach - taught dozens of classes at 8 universities over 4 decades, plus corporate and nonprofit consulting and advising 
- including for Apple, Disney, Atari, Microsoft, Lucasfilm, Interval, and Google; and for National Geographic, UNESCO, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Exploratorium, the Banff Centre, Ars Electronica, and the Paris Metro
VIDEO "Defusing Glass: Google's Critical Mission" (20 min) Museum of Contemporary Art Australia XMediaLab keynote (2013)