PASADENA, CA.-The Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at the Art Center College of Design presets Michael Naimark - Interactive and Immersive Film Environments, 1977 - 1997, on view through August 20, 2005. Michael Naimark is an pioneering media artist and researcher who has worked extensively with field cinematography, interactive systems, and immersive projection. He was instrumental in the founding of several research labs and his art projects have been exhibit internationally.

One of the original design team members for the MIT Media Lab in 1980, Naimark was a founding member of the Atari Research Lab (1982), the Apple Multimedia Lab (1987), and Lucasfilm Interactive (now LucasArts, 1989). He joined Interval Research Corporation, a long-term lab funded by Paul Allen, as it opened in 1992, and worked an additional year after it closed in 2000 on his webcam spinoff venture, Kundi.com. Several patents have been granted for his work.

Naimark's art projects are in the permanent collections of the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. His 3D interactive installation "Be Now Here," produced by Interval with the cooperation of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, toured in the ZKM's "Future Cinema" exhibition in 2002 and 2003.

Naimark is on the Board of Directors of the ZeroOne Foundation in Palo Alto; the Board of Advisors of the Media Lab Europe in Dublin; and the Editorial Boards of Leonardo Electronic Almanac and Presence journals, both from MIT Press. He has been a member of the Society for Visual Anthropology since 1984. He was recently a Visiting Artist in the Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design, and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC Film School.