Tomo Isoyama, Manager, New Media & Emerging Technologies
Tomo Isoyama specializes in adapting newly developed teaching and learning tools including video, multimedia and immersive technologies. With his unique background in visual arts and Information Technology, his research and teaching areas span 3D modeling and animation, photography and graphic design, video and audio editing, and web authoring and database management. Isoyama is developing a theoretical framework for multimedia-enabled courses to use media-rich instructional design and curriculum development.
Isoyama was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. After completing his bachelor's degree in literature, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his graduate degree in fine arts that he completed in 2000 at USC's Roski School of Fine Arts. Since then, he has been maintaining an active career as a visual artist, exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. He has also completed a certificate program at the Information Technology Program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Isoyama worked for the USC Roski School of Fine Arts as the Manager of Information Technology prior to joining the Center for Scholarly Technology in the summer of 2007.
Isoyama has taught Japanese language, web design, photography, and video game art and development at various colleges in Southern California, including USC's Roski School of Fine Arts and School of Cinematic Arts.