IMD Annual MFA Thesis Show Exhibit
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The USC Interactive Media Division focuses its research in three areas:
Games
The Electronic Arts Interactive Entertainment Program and Game Innovation lab are the focal point of games study and research within the Interactive Media Division. With the establishment of the first Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment at the School of Cinema-Television, the division has become a leader in the emerging field of game studies.
Immersive
Exploring technologies that transform our percieved reality, immersive media studies and research within the Interactive Media Division are led by an impressive array of pioneering artists whose work has defined and continues to shape the fields of virtual reality, location-based entertainment, human-machine interface, museum installations, and augmented performance.
Mobile
Mobile devices and media are profoundly impacting the way people live, work and communicate. The mobile media studies and research efforts within the Interactive Media Division explore the frontiers of mobile content and technology, creating unique, pervasive experiences that are re-defining the boundaries of entertainment,education and communication.
Interactive Media Research projects
Games
Intermediate Game Projects, Spring '07
These game projects were created in the intermediate game design and development course, which introduces students to concepts in... »
Good Night Elysium
Team GD3 presents Good Night Elysium, an ambitious and experimental game built on the student-developed Bushido Engine and BitTorrent technology.... »
SONANOS
Doo Yul Park's MFA thesis, SONANOS, combines musical and ludological ideas into a unique interactive landscape. The project is a... »
Torrent Raiders
Torrent Raiders, the thesis project of MFA student Aaron Meyers, is an application which serves two functions: it is both... »
Immersive
Lambent Reactive
In his thesis project, The Lambent Reactive, MFA student Noah Keating has taken on the task of integrating dance movement... »
Fitting In
Part museum exhibition and part virtual world, Jessica Rosenblatt's MFA thesis, Fitting In, is a unique interactive exhibit that aims... »
Project AWOL
Vincent Diamante's MFA thesis, Project AWOL, is a new interface for audio mixing in surround sound. This intuitive, efficient and... »
CityTagz
Mihai Peteu's Masters Thesis, CityTagz, is a web-based location-tagging interface and database. Used in conjunction with Google Maps, CityTagz allows... »
Mobile
Journey of Jin
Journey of Jin, an episodic sprite-based role playing game for mobile phones, is the thesis project of IMD MFA graduate... »
Path of the Mad Prophet
The Mad Prophet challenges toys that track. The doll is meant to be part of a fictional product launch by... »
Vis-à-Vis Games
Vis-à-Vis Games takes ordinary electronic gaming off your old-fashioned video game console and desktop PC and moves it out into... »
Tracking Agama
Hidden within, beneath and behind the surface landmarks of Los Angeles lurks a world of mystery and imagination, of fact... »
