| michael naimark |
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| Selected Publications |
"The One Earth Model" Medium, December 2022. |
"Big Tech's Race to the Ground (View)" Medium, May 2022. |
"Where’s Planet Earth in the Metaverse?" Medium, Dec 2021. |
"A Cheap Simple Hack for Improving Your Online Classtime Experiences," Medium, Jan 2021. |
"How the 62 Year Story of Art at MIT Shaped the Media Lab Ethos," Medium, Sep 2019. |
"Increasing VR Creativity: More Risky Research, Less Master Classes," Medium, Aug 2018. |
"VR / AR Fundamentals," (a six-part weekly series) Medium, Jan - Mar 2018. |
"A Big Slow Global Approach to VR: Silicon Valley's Blind Spot," Canadian Film Centre News, May 2017. |
"Being Early: Challenges and Opportunities as VR Grows Up," Presence, 25th Anniversary Issue, MIT Press, 25.2, November 2016. |
"VR Interactivity: Some Useful Distinctions," Medium, October 2016. |
"VR Cinematography Studies for Google," Medium, June 2016. |
VR Cinematography, slideshow, 2014. |
Why VR Headsets will Stick, musings before a keynote for the first International Symposium on Immersive Creativity, Montréal, 2014. |
| May Day on Wall Street 2012, live webcasting field notes, 2012. |
| A Statement about the Interval Lawsuit, 2011. |
| "Camera Cars", 2010. |
| "'X'ing the World in 80 Days", Project Director's statement, 80+1: A Global Journey, an EU Culture Capital event for Linz09, 2008. |
| "Aspen the Verb: Musings on Heritage and Virtuality," Presence, Special Issue on Virtual Heritage, MIT Press, 15.3, June 2006. |
| Big Projects To Do List personal list published online, 2006. |
| "Two Unusual Projection Spaces," Presence, Special Issue on Projection, MIT Press, 14.5, October 2005. |
| "Addressing Time," Curatorial Statement for the Festival Symposium, Ars Electronica 2004 Catalog, G. Stocker, Editor, Ostfildern-Ruit, GERMANY: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. |
| "Calculated Risk," Forward for A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation, L. Goodman and K. Milton, Eds., London, UK: Arts and Humanities Data Service, 2004. |
| "Sensory Anomalies," in Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, B. Laurel, Editor, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003 |
| "Truth,
Beauty, Freedom, and Money: Technology-Based Art and the Dynamics
of Sustainability," Leonardo/ISAST, May 2003 |
| "Alan Lomax's Multimedia Dream," Alan Lomax Collection Site, December 2002 |
| "How to ZAP a Camera," (self published), October 2002 |
| "VR Webcams: Time Artifacts as Positive Features," ISEA 2002 Proceedings, Nagoya, Japan, October 2002 | "An Arts Lab," open letter to the Presidio Trust, October 2001 |
| "First Word Art/Last Word Art," FineArtForum vol.15, issue 8, August 2001 |
"Leash Length," EMERGEncy 1.5, March 2001 |
"Symmetrical Media," EMERGEncy, 1.4, February 2001 |
"VR Today," Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 9:5, May 2001 |
"Where are the Anthropologists?," Leonardo Electronic Almanac Vol. 9:1, January 2001 |
"Predictions," EMERGEncy 1.1, November 2000 |
Memorial for Bernard Q. Nietschmann, short speech, U C Berkeley Faculty Club, May 2000 |
Art at Interval, short speech, Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, 1999 |
"Art School en Provence," Interval Trip Report #29, Aix, FRANCE, November 1998 |
"Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM) Conference," Interval Trip Report #28, Gifu, JAPAN, November 1998 |
"Field Recording Techniques for Virtual Reality Applications," VSMM '98 Proceedings, Gifu, JAPAN, 1998 |
"World's First Interactive Filmmaker," Interval Trip Report #27, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, May 1998 |
"Prix Ars Electronica Jury," Interval Trip Report #26, Linz, AUSTRIA, May 1998 |
"Place Runs Deep: Virtuality, Place, and Indigenousness," Virtual Museums Symposium, Salzburg, AUSTRIA, 1998 |
"ZKM Opening," Interval Trip Report #25, Karlsruhe, GERMANY, October 1997 |
"Art (and" or ‘versus’) Technology: Some Personal Observations," in Art@Science, Christa Sommerer, editor, Vienna and NY: Springer Press, 1997 |
"A 3D Moviemap and a 3D Panorama," SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3012, San Jose, 1997 |
"What’s Wrong with this Picture: Presence and Abstraction in the Age of Cyberspace," Consciousness Reframed Proceedings, CAiiA, University of Wales, Newport, WALES, 1997 |
"Interactive Art: Maybe it’s a Bad Idea," Cyberarts, International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica, H. Leopoldseder-C. Schopf, editors, Vienna and NY: Springer Press, 1997 |
"Field Recording Studies," in Immersed in Technology, Mary Anne Moser, editor, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996 |
"Gifu Update," Interval Trip Report #24, Gifu, JAPAN, May 1996 |
"ATR Science ART: International Symposium on Art and Science," Interval Trip Report #23, Kyoto, JAPAN, May 1996 |
"EXCAVATION AREA: A Virtual Gallery of Archaeological Art" (Japanese), InterCommunication (NTT) No.14, Tokyo, JAPAN, 1995 |
"Be Now Here Dispatches," Interval Trip Reports #19, 20, 21 22, Jerusalem, Dubrovnik, Timbuktu, Angkor, October 1995 |
"Interaction '95" Artshow," Interval Trip Report #18, Gifu, JAPAN, July 1995 |
"Interactive Art and the Myth of Everything-ness," Ars Electronica catalog, Linz, 1994 |
"New Media International Symposium," Interval Trip Report #17 & Leonard Electronic Access v3 n2, Feb 95, Moscow, Russia, November 1994 |
"Digital Expression Symposium," MIT Media Lab, Interval Trip Report #16, Cambridge, October 1994 |
"UNESCO III," Interval Trip Report #15, Paris, FRANCE, September 1994 |
"International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)," Interval Trip Report #14, Helsinki, FINLAND, September 1994 |
"New Media for New Museums First International Retreat," Interval Trip Report #13, Ferrara, Bologna, ITALY, May 1994 |
"Artclass, Universities of Paris," Interval Trip Report #12, Paris, FRANCE, March 1994 |
"UNESCO II," Interval Trip Report #11, Paris, FRANCE, November 1993 |
"ZKM MultiMediale 3," Interval Trip Report #10, Karlsruhe, GERMANY, November 1993 |
"Alan Lomax Meeting," Interval Trip Report #9, New York, November 1993 |
"Elk Update," Interval Trip Report #8, Banff, CANADA, October 1993 |
"Beaux-Arts Conference," Interval Trip Report #7, Paris, FRANCE, June 1993 |
"National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention," Interval Trip Report #6, Las Vegas, April 1993 |
"UNESCO," Interval Trip Report #5, Paris, FRANCE, February 1993 |
"Interface II Conference," Interval Trip Report #4, Hamburg, GERMANY, February 1993 |
"International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) Convention," Interval Trip Report #3, Dallas, December 1992 |
"CyberArts Conference," Interval Trip Report #2, Pasadena, November 1992 |
"Spy Stores," Interval Trip Report #1, New York, November 1992 |
"Expo '92 Seville," Presence, vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 1992 |
"EAT - A Virtual Dining Environment," Tomorrow's Realities catalog, Siggraph, Las Vegas, 1991 |
"VBK - A Moviemap of Karlsruhe," Tomorrow's Realities catalog, Siggraph, Las Vegas, 1991 |
"Moviemap Basics," artshow catalog, Multimediale 2, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1991 |
"Elements of Realspace Imaging: a Proposed Taxonomy," SPIE Proceedings, vol. 1457, San Jose, 1991 |
"Realness and Interactivity," in The Art of Human Computer Interface Design, B. Laurel, editor, NY: Addison Wesley, 1990 |
"Media Glasses, Media Windows and Media Doors," Kanagawa International Art and Science Exhibition Catalog, 1989 |
"The Question Machine," Whole Earth Review, no. 65, Winter 1989 |
"Spatial Correspondence in Motion Picture Display," SPIE Proceedings, vol. 462, Optics and Entertainment, Los Angeles, 1984 |
"Saving the First World," Send Magazine, San Francisco International Video Festival, 1984 |
"The Optical Videodisc and New Media Forms," Video 80, San Francisco International Video Festival, 1982 |
"Some Notes on Movies and Form," Video 80, San Francisco International Video Festival, 1981 |