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Kimber Cooper is an Emmy-nominated visionary designer and researcher exploring how technology can amplify human creativity rather than replace it. Over a 30-year career, she has pioneered visual languages at technological inflection points, from film title design to immersive learning environments to AI visualization systems.

She co-founded Prologue, an Emmy Award-winning studio that has created over 600 title sequences and VFX storytelling sequences for Amazon, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Apple, Marvel, and major studios. A Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award nominee for her design work, she recognized that each technological shift, from film to web, web to VR, VR to AI, creates opportunities to help people see and understand information differently.

She founded Spatialand, a VR commerce platform acquired by Walmart, pioneering immersive retail experiences, and INTERVRSE, building educational VR environments including ViterbiVerse at USC. Her current work visualizing AI systems for Joachim Rønning's Tron: Ares and Gore Verbinski's Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die explores how to make computational processes visible and emotionally resonant.

As a visiting instructor at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, she co-teaches courses on AI-driven storytelling and experiential learning. Her research focuses on designing constraint-based AI systems that preserve creative agency and emotional engagement in human-machine collaboration.

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”Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”

— Steve Jobs