Michael is a career independent working with academia, corporations, and non profits in the areas of immersive and emerging media, often around “place representation” and its consequences. He is also interested in the dynamics between art and invention.
He enjoys (and has somehow survived) making stuff early, so far including in the areas of projection mapping, Street View, realworld VR, and camera zapping. He’s a long-time advisor to ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox Project and he geeks out on cameras. Currently he is visiting faculty at NYU Shanghai where he teaches VR/AR Fundamentals, and where for the past three years he has run a project called Telewindow, investigating better teleconferencing both large and small.
Naimark has been awarded 16 patents relating to cameras, display, haptics, and live, and his work has been seen in over 300 art exhibitions, film festivals, and presentations around the world. He was the 2002 recipient of the World Technology Award for the Arts.[1]
Since 2009, Naimark has served as faculty at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and the MIT Media Lab.
In 2015, Naimark was appointed Google’s first-ever “resident artist” in their new VR division..
Michael Naimark helped found a number of prominent research labs including the MIT Media Laboratory (1980), the Atari Research Lab (1982),[4] the Apple Multimedia Lab (1987), Lucasfilm Interactive (1989), and Interval Research Corporation (1992).[5][6] At MIT, Naimark helped put together the Aspen Movie Map,[7] a hypermedia project.
Michael’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.[8]
Professor Lizbeth Goodman of SMARTlab and the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland at UCD, and Ruth Freeman, Director of Science for Society of Science Foundation Ireland, will today represent Ireland and Europe in a major call to policymakers and research councils across the EU and Africa for Gender Equity in Research!
Join the AERAP EU-Africa science collaboration platform briefing entitled “The Contribution of Women to EU-Africa Science Objectives” which will take place today at 13h00CET.
Further details, including registration, are available here:
This semester includes a session on IEEE Virtual Systems and Multimedia (link) and also 2 free Facebook certified digital skills training sessions in AI and Innovation. Please sign up to attend.
Intensive One Week Introduction and Hands-on Training Leading to a SMARTlab Certificate in XR Level 1 with an additional
Open session for the community on Thursday 28TH February, 7-8pm
Led by Globally Renowned XR Trainer Zi Siang See and Multimedia Expert Haireena Ooi, in residence from SMARTlab Australia (@the University of Newcastle)
Professor Lizbeth Goodman will be moderating the HCI track at Hopper Local / Dublin at Microsoft Ireland.
Speakers will be:
Grace Hughes, Senior Content Designer for Fjord at The Dock, Accenture’s R&D hub.
Genevieve Smith-Nunes, Lecturer in computing education & digital media at University of Roehampton.
Kathryn Parkes, Design Researcher and UX Designer currently working with Cisco.
Hopper Local / Dublin February 27, 2019 · 7:30 am – 7:00 pm
Hopper Local / Dublin is a one-day locally organized conference modeled after our Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC). This immersive event brings together women technologists at all levels – along with leading companies from industry, academia, and research – to build relationships, learn, and advance their careers. Hopper Local / Dublin is the inaugural event and will launch an AnitaB.org Local Community in Ireland.
22 November – UNICEF hosts keynote on Inclusive Design for Education by Professor Lizbeth Goodman in Serbia at the two-day conference “Inclusive Education – a Way Forward in Serbia”:
