Board of Directors
- Dan Neafus, Gates Planetarium Operations Manager, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
- Ryan Wyatt, Director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences
- Ed Lantz, President and CTO at Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
- Paul Fraser, President, Blaze Digital Cinema Works
Staff
- Judith Rubin, IMERSA Communications, Judith Rubin Etc. Editing and Public Relations
Committee Chairs
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Operations Manager, Gates Planetarium
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Founding Director, IMERSA
Dan has produced engaging audience experiences for over 30 years,and continues to do so as Operations Manager of one of the finest immersive theaters in the world, the Gates Planetarium. He is President of the Rocky Mountain Planetarium Association and director and founder of IMERSA. His consulting design firm Artlight Design Inc., provides publicand performance artworks across the country. With an emphasis on technology, Dan utilizes many tools in his work, from supercomputer graphics, to 3d sound and automated lighting. His fulldome productions are distributed to theaters world-wide. By collaborating and inspiring fellow visionary pioneers he has charted a course for the future of domed theaters and the immersive experience.
Ed LantzImmersive Art & Entertainment Expert
Founding Director, IMERSA
Ed Lantz has over 20 years of management and executive level experience in media and entertainment technology, art, science and business. He has demonstrated consistent success in envisioning and leading high-risk technical and entrepreneurial operations with excellent strategic planning, management, marketing, P&L, and negotiation skills. Ed is internationally recognized as a pioneer and leading authority in large-format digital cinema and immersive experiences. Other areas of expertise include cable television, themed entertainment, photonics, virtual reality, events production, 3D animation and special effects for large-format film and video. Mr. Lantz is President & CEO of Harmony Channel (a national cable television network), operates Visual Bandwidth, Inc., an immersive cinema and fulldome video advisory network, and recently co-founded Vortex Immersion Media as President and CTO.
Director, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, California Academy of Sciences
Founding Director, IMERSA
Director, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, California Academy of Sciences
Ryan Wyatt assumed his role as Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization at the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) in April 2007. Prior to arriving in San Francisco, Wyatt worked for six years as Science Visualizer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
City; previously, he opened technologically-advanced planetariums in Phoenix, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Wyatt’s professional interests include making research data sets accessible to the general public, and developing standards and “best practices” in the fulldome video community. A paper co-written for Natural History magazine reflects on the role of modern planetariums in bringing cutting edge science to a variety of audiences, and his “Visualizing Science” blog provides an informal look at his ideas and opinions related to visual representations of science. Wyatt also indulges avid enthusiasms for archeoastronomy, the history of science, and intersections between art and science.
http://ryanwyatt.livejournal.com
http://www.calacademy.org/newsroom/releases/2007/new_pd_watt.php
President, Blaze Digital Cinema Works
Paul Fraser, a consultant who specializes in business development for content and venue clients across a variety of digital cinema platforms, was an innovator in the global giant-screen cinema industry, including leadership positions with Imax Corp. and Ogden Corp. In the early 2000's, he led a New York-based, new media studio that pioneered non-fiction, interactive content and applications for web and wireless distribution. His 25-year career shows a penchant for embracing and positioning new technologies and launching new business and product initiatives, grounded by strategic branding. For the past two years, he has focused on the promising, fast-growing field of digital dome cinema ("fulldome") for planetariums, museums and entertainment venues, for such clients as National Geographic Entertainment. His company, Blaze Digital Cinema Works LLC specializes in business development for d-cinema, in practically all the forms it takes, whether flat screen or digital domes, 2D or 3D, for commercial & institutional sectors, and for all functions - content development, distribution & exhibition. Fraser's leadership of new business initiatives has spanned: Film & theaters (commercial digital theaters, digital film distribution, giant-screen films & theaters, digital fulldome, 2D/3D/4D), Leisure attractions (technology-driven marketing services) and Interactive media (Web & wireless, content & applications).
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