michael naimark
Selected Projects
NYU Shanghai
Visiting Associate Arts Professor - teaching, researching, producing, and publishing in the areas of VR / AR, and emerging media.
2017 -
VR Cinematography Studies for Google
Exploring how people are represented in VR, as Google's first-ever VR resident artist.
2015 - 2016
IMU VR Camera
Wearable stereo video camera with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for First-Person VR.

2015 -
Cycloramas Re-Imagined
"Reality rooms done right"
(TBD)
2013 -
liiive.tv
Spontaneous One-to-Many Webcasting
University of Southern Californa
and New York University
2011 -
Movie Tagger
"How to Parse and Richley Tag Every Movie Ever Made"
University of Southern Californa
2010 - 2012
80+1: A Journey Around the World
81 day event, Linz Main Square, Austria
Linz09 EU Capital of Culture and Ars Electronica
2009
Viewfinder
"How to Seamlessly 'Flickrize' 'Google Earth'"
University of Southern Californa
2006-2008
Be Now Here Triptych
Stereo-panoramic HD video installation
University of Southern Californa and Ars Electronica
, Linz, AUSTRIA
2008
Displacements 2005
video projected on living room painted white
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
2005
Fast Cheap GigaPixel Images
student workshop project
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
2005
Ars Electronica "t+25" Timeline
predictions website
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AUSTRIA
2004
Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Money
feasibility study for a sustainable arts laboratory
Leonardo/ISAST and the Rockefeller Foundation, New York
2002-03

VR Webcam Study
immersion on the Internet
Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, JAPAN
2001-02

Camera Zapper
counter-surveillance research
Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, JAPAN
2001-2002

Kundi.com
webcam venture
Interval Research
1999-2001
Dimensionalization Studies
dimensionalized movies
Interval Research
1994-98
Alan Lomax's Global Jukebox Project
video
Interval Research and Association for Cultural Equity, New York
1997
Be Now Here
3D panorama installation
Interval Research and UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris FRANCE
1995-97
See Banff Kinetoscope
3D moviemap installation
Interval Research and Banff Centre for the Arts, CANADA
1993-94
Field Recording Studies
dimensionalized movies
Banff Centre for the Arts, CANADA
1992-93
Small Projection Studies
abstracted small projections
Banff Centre for the Arts, CANADA
1991
Karlsruhe Moviemap
moviemap from the tram
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, GERMANY
1991
Virtuality Inc.
video
San Francisco Art Institute
1990
Globe Theatre Simulation
video
Apple Multimedia Lab
1989
EAT
virtual dining
San Francisco Art Institute
1989
El Camino
then and now moviemap
Apple Multimedia Lab
1988
Golden Gate Flyover
moviemap from the air
Exploratorium, San Francisco
1987
Paris VideoPlan
moviemap from the sidewalks
RATP (Paris Metro), FRANCE
1986
Spacecode Camera
proposal
Panavision Inc.
1986
Siggraph '84 Timelapse
video
ACM Siggraph
1984

Illustration Library Workstation
video
Atari Research
1984

Displacements
film projected on living room painted white
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1980-84
Ifugao Question Journal
ethnographic research
Atari Research
1983
Eyepiece
film installation
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
1979-83
Talking Head Projection
telepresence demo
Architecture Machine Group, MIT
1979
Aspen Moviemap
interactive videodisc system
Architecture Machine Group, MIT
1978-79

Environmental Media Studies
film projections
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
1977-79