Michael Naimark

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Michael Naimark is a media artist notable in the fields of cinematography, interactive systems, and immersive projection.

Naimark helped found a number of prominent research labs: MIT Media Laboratory (1980), the Atari Research Lab (1982), the Apple Multimedia Lab (1987), and Lucasfilm Interactive (1989). At MIT, Naimark helped put together the Aspen Movie Map, a seminal hypermedia project. Naimark was part of Interval Research Corporation ,and founded a webcam spinoff venture, Kundi.com.

Naimark's work 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.

As of 2006, Naimark is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, where he coined the term Google Jockey. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, the artist Marie Sester.