Michael Roper Email & Phone Number

Newton, Ma, Us

Newton, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

I create media for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, including www.mfa.org, the MFA’s social media channels, commercials, and the MFA's in-gallery multimedia. I interview curators and artists to tell the story of the MFA's exhibitions, including Graciela Iturbide for Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico, Takashi Murakami for The Lineage of Eccentrics, and Catherine Opie for Ansel Adams in Our Time. I use Apple tools (Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Pages) to communicate ideas, develop storyboards, and edit video for the MFA.

New consultancy providing services to clients needing expertise in multimedia design and technology, digital media, and marketing communications. Recent clients include the Boston Neighborhood Network and the Forsyth Institute.

Boston

Started and led Experience Media Group for ten years, developing breakthrough interactive experiences and leading teams in the development of rich media websites, interactive installations, and educational programming for leading museums and corporations. Won multiple AAM MUSE awards for groundbreaking exhibitions and websites on slavery in New-York, the Katrina disaster, and American Indian Art.• Produced and directed rich media websites and multimedia exhibitions for MetLife, the New-York Historical Society, the National Constitution Center, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the Denver Art Museum• Conceptualized new kinds of interactive media, including the interactive timeline, the document translator, and The Well—an iconic media installation developed for the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society• Specified appropriate hardware and software technologies for a variety of complex digital installations and websites• Led teams of up to 20 in-house and freelance staff in the development of digital media projects• Worked closely with clients and content experts to develop digital media solutions that addressed their online, social media, and exhibition needs

Boston

Co-founded this multimedia design firm which specialized in rich media programming for the Web, interactive television, trade shows, and museums. Acted as creative director & producer, coordinating the work of content specialists, programmers, graphic designers, video editors, and other team members. • Developed the first full-screen, full-motion interactive on a major work of art for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Titian’s Europa.• Conceived and produced the first broadband educational curriculum, Star Festival Network • Developed the first multimedia curriculum to be adopted by the Boston Public Schools• Created linear and interactive programming for Sybase, Iridium, the Worcester Art Museum, and the handover ceremony in Hong Kong

Cambridge, Usa

After graduating from MIT’s Media Lab, I worked with research groups at MIT to develop new approaches to interactive media.• Produced and directed a series of educational media projects for MIT’s Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Two of the projects, Dans un quartier de Paris and Tanabata: The Star Festival, take users on a journey through the histories and cultures of France and Japan. • Collaborating with Peace River Films, I acted in various roles (cameraman, editor, technologist, producer) on a variety of projects including the first interactive NOVA, an interactive theater for the Liberty Science Center, media installations for the Osaka Aquarium, educational videos for TERC, and an experimental interactive documentary for Apple’s Multimedia Laboratory.

S.M.Vis.S, Visual Studies

B.A., History Of Ideas

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Social Philosophy And Intellectual History