USC Interactive Media Division
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The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in 2002. In addition to coursework in film production, screenwriting, and animation, students in the division study across three disciplines within interactive media: immersive media, mobile media, and video games. The IMD has a group weblog edited by the students and faculty, sharing the results of their research.
Major funders of the USC IMD include Electronic Arts, whose Bing Gordon took a faculty chair at the school in 2005.
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[edit] Projects
- Projects Gallery
- Cloud - an experimental computer game from 2005, funded in part by a grant from Electronic Arts.
- flOw
- Darfur is Dying
- PMOG - A vast social meta-game that can be played by completing missions on the Web.
- The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom - A game set in an early silent film world that plays with temporal space.
- The Night Journey - A video game/art project based on the universal story of an individual mystic's journey toward enlightenment.
- The Redistricting Game - A video game designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting.
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Faculty & Staff
Currently, the division is headed by Scott Fisher, a pioneer in virtual reality research, with help from Jen Stein, a media and communications scholar and Marientina Gotsis, a new media artist and lab manager for the division. Faculty have included Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Julian Bleecker, Mark Bolas, Peter Brinson, Tracy Fullerton, Perry Hoberman, Michael Lew, Erik Loyer, Jacki Morie, Michael Naimark, Eddo Stern, Chris Swain, Peggy Weil.
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