Jason Gnerre is an artist and technologist whose primary interest is in extended reality production. Recently, his work has focused on developing collaborative augmented reality experiences that enable new forms of interaction with one another and the environment. Other examples of recent work include virtual reality as a tool for improving mental health, WebAR holographic videos, spatial computing applications, and photogrammetry.
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augmented reality, virtual reality, photogrammetry, game design, game development, spatial computing, mixed reality, extended reality, media production, interactive media
Teaching
courses taught
CMDP 2500 - Media Practices I
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Fall 2025
Working in design groups, students will explore the expressive potential of media through the production of short projects, discussions, readings, formal analysis, and critique. Provide a basic introduction to media practices as an extension of "visual thinking" and through approaches to storytelling, and hybrid media forms.
CMDP 3510 - Critical Media Practices Workshop II
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2024
Training in narrow topics of media practices. Open to CMDI students and by permission of the instructor. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.
CMDP 3750 - Intro to Immersive and Emergent Media
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025
This course serves at the gateway to the Immersive & Emergent Media concentration. Introduces concepts and practices associated with immersive & emergent media production. Emphasizes hands-on experience such as basic 3D modeling, the fundamentals of coding and interactivity, creating fully immersive extended reality experiences, and experimental applications of microcontrollers.
CMDP 4730 - Digital Art and Emergent Technologies
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Fall 2025
Explores digital artistic practices across contexts and disciplines in various contexts. Emphasizes web and networked media as it applies to digital practices in sound, image, language, spatial and time-based arts.
CMDP 4740 - Augmented Reality
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Spring 2025
Builds on concept and principles learned in CMDP 3750. Introduces more advanced AR technologies and modes of production. Hands-on work allows students to apply theoretical knowledge by designing interactive digital experiences that blend the virtual and physical worlds. Examines ethical and societal implications of AR technology via critical practice and challenges students to evaluate its impact on privacy, accessibility, and cultural norms. Students work independently or in small teams on one semester-long AR project.
CMDP 4750 - Virtual Reality
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
This course provides technical training in the arena of virtual reality (VR), as well as an in-depth perspective on the history of VR, its practical and artistic applications as well as its societal implications. Throughout the semester students also engage in discussions centered around best practices for immersive storytelling and user experience.
CMDP 4760 - Topics in Immersive Media
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Rotating topics in extended realities.
