Hi, I'm Jason Jamerson.
I lead an integrated arts and media enterprise at Louisiana State University, where I direct the XR Studio and Virtual Production and co-lead the Digital Twin Core Facility. I'm an Associate Professor with a joint appointment across two colleges, and I've built a portfolio of more than $22 million in funded research and commercial work with partners including NASA, NIST, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ExxonMobil, Syngenta, FOX, NBC, Fender, and George Washington's Mount Vernon.
My model is simple: creative infrastructure is research infrastructure. The same facilities, teams, and methods that produce national broadcasts, motion capture for animated features, and original film and television also produce digital twins of NASA manufacturing facilities and petrochemical plants, simulation environments for robotics, and immersive tools for medical training and coastal resilience. Visualization, spatial thinking, and human experience operate as core research capabilities in every project.
I lead more than 50 faculty, staff, graduate assistants, and student employees, and I manage the operating, capital, research, and commercial budgets that sustain them. The facilities I direct accommodate hundreds of productions, classes, research, and public events each year. I've expanded and renovated those facilities, built the teams that run them, and developed the partnerships across campus, industry, and government that keep them growing. Students work alongside professionals at every position in this operation, on real projects for real clients.
I came to this work from two decades in the entertainment industry in New York, as a Design Supervisor and Production Designer for film and television clients including HBO, Netflix, Paramount, and The History Channel, and for productions on and Off-Broadway. That career taught me how creative teams deliver ambitious work on schedule and at scale. I now apply those lessons to institutions.
My mission is to invest in creative students and colleagues, build organizations where research and creative production strengthen each other, and prove what the arts make possible.
I am a recognized leader in AI-driven creativity. I brought generative tools into theatrical design early, and I now direct their use across research, teaching, and studio practice, documented on my AI & Generative Design page. I maintain an active design practice across media, from mission patch design for NASA's Production Operations group to Off-Broadway theatre design. In Fall 2026 I am designing Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors for Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, Oregon.