Scott S. Fisher is both a scientist and a media artist, producer, and director whose work focuses primarily on immersive environments and technologies of presence. Currently he is Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. He is also President of Telepresence Media, a production company focusing on the art and design of virtual environment and remote presence experiences, and Project Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa, Japan.

Mr. Fisher attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the Architecture Machine Group from 1978 to 1982. There he participated in development of the 'Aspen Movie Map', a surrogate travel videodisc project, and several stereoscopic display systems for teleconferencing and telepresence applications. His research interests focus primarily in stereoscopic imaging , immersive display environments, and the development of interactive art installations and media technology for representing 'first-person' sensory experience.

From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Fisher was Founder and Director of the Virtual Environment Workstation Project (VIEW) at NASA's Ames Research Center in which the objective was to develop a multisensory 'virtual environment' workstation for use in a Space Station. The VIEW Project pioneered the development of many key VR technologies including head-coupled displays, datagloves, and 3-D audio technology. Prior to the Ames Research Center, Mr. Fisher has served as Research Scientist under Dr. Alan Kay with Atari Corporation's Sunnyvale Research Laboratory.

Mr. Fisher's work has been shown and demonstrated in many art museums and science labs around the world.

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