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Jeff Burke

email: jburke at ucla . edu

JEFF BURKE is a researcher and lecturer in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he directs the technological research of its HyperMedia Studio. Previously, he was on the faculty of the graduate industrial design program at the Art Center College of Design. He has co-authored, designed, programmed or produced performances and new genre installations exhibited in eight countries from 1999-2004, coordinating diverse teams for design and implementation. He has also managed, designed, or engineered systems for many theatrical productions. Recent installations include Beloved Mnemosyne at the Konstmuseum in Göteborg, Sweden as part of the 2002 Intl Computer Music Festival, and Ecce Homology, a collaboration with molecular biologists, designers, and computer scientists that premiered at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles in November, 2003, was recently awarded a co-production residency by the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta) and will be curated in SIGGRAPH 2005. Burke has a masters degree in electrical engineering from UCLA, where his past work includes interactive system design for the Dept. of Theater’s mainstage production of Ionesco's Macbett and co-development of the NSF-funded Iliad Project. He is also the Director of Technological Development for the Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (Buenos Aires) and will be an instructor for the Rhodopi International Theater Collective (Bulgaria) in 2005.

Burke was an invited participant in the Computer Science & the Humanities conference (2003) at the National Academy of Sciences and the Building Blocks Conference (2000) of the National Institute for a Networked Cultural Heritage. At UCLA, his interactive authoring course incorporates sensors, media control, programming and critical theory and has attracted students from education, engineering, computer science, architecture, theater, and film. He is currently a principal investigator of the Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media's Advanced Technology for Cinematography project, funded by Intel Research, and NEA-supported research into authoring tools for media-rich ubiquitous computing environments. He has been a system designer and/or owner’s representative for construction projects in Southern California including the Alexandra Nechita Center for the Arts (Orange), multiple venues at Scripps College (Claremont), and the Japanese American National Museum’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, designed by architect Brenda Levin and opening in Los Angeles in the spring of 2005.

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