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Jaehee Cho

Director

Jaehee Cho, a film school graduate from Seoul Institute of the Arts, worked in music video production before coming to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate school. While in his graduate studies with CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center, he worked with the emerging platform of VR, creating VR films Imago (2015) and the interactive VR Film Injustice (2015). His VR work was showcased and recognized at Tribeca Immersive 2016, SIGGRAPH 2016, CHI Play 2016 and Games for Change 2016. He will present his VR work with Stitchbridge VR this August at SIGGRAPH 2018 Educator’s Forum, presenting the VR piece Journey through the Camps, a VR experience about the Holocaust made for Carnegie Mellon University. His previous work also includes working for Universal Creative on their media team in Orlando, FL.

Sarabeth Boak

Producer

Sarabeth Boak is a NYC native with business planning experience in the fashion industry for Bloomingdale’s Department Stores. During her graduate program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, she worked with VR, AR, and interactive storytelling. Since founding Stitchbridge in 2017 with classmates Jaehee and Jack, she’s worked on a number of VR productions including the VR experience about the Holocaust for Carnegie Mellon University Journey through the Camps, being presented at SIGGRAPH this coming August. Previous work includes a production role with Universal Creative’s Advanced Technology Interactives team in Orlando, FL.

Jack Tsai

Developer

Jack Tsai worked as a developer in Taipei for 5 years, on R&D projects, animation, and mobile development. After earning a Master’s Degree from National Taiwan University in CS and working in the tech scene in Taiwan, he moved to Pittsburgh to attend Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. There, he worked on VR projects including Imago (2015), which was recognized at SIGGRAPH 2016. After graduating, he developed for Facebook’s Oculus Research, an R&D VR division for the company in Pittsburgh. Jack joined the Stitchbridge team as a co-founder and has been involved in the VR project about the Holocaust for CMU (mentioned above).

Kyungkuk Kim

Artist

Kuk worked as a 3D artist for studios in Seoul, South Korea before coming to the U.S. to attend graduate school at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center. After graduating in 2018, he’s continued his work with Stitchbridge, creating all the art for the company’s VR experience about the Holocaust for CMU, to be shown this August at SIGGRAPH 2018 Educator’s Forum.

Ralph Vituccio

Ralph Vituccio is a documentary filmmaker and professor of interactive storytelling and film production at Carnegie Mellon University. His film Ship Breakers (2014) is an award-winning piece chronicling the grueling manual labor of breaking apart cruise ships in India. He’s been an advisor on both academic VR work for the team during their time at CMU, as well as a project manager and producer of their company’s VR piece about the Holocaust for CMU.  A Pittsburgh native, Ralph continues to collaborate on projects that use interactive media to spur discussion and understanding, most recently traveling to Cuba to make an interactive documentary with his university students.

Na-Yeon Kim

Artist

Na-Yeon is a recent graduate from Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. She is an artist specializing in 2D art and has worked on a number of projects including educational games, virtual reality, and interactive art installations. She is originally from South Korea.