Hi, I'm Jason Jamerson.
I direct the XR Studio at Louisiana State University and help lead the Digital Twin Core Facility. Both are built on one principle: creative infrastructure is research infrastructure. The same studios, teams, and methods that produce national broadcasts and motion capture for animated features also build digital twins of NASA manufacturing facilities and simulation environments for robotics and embodied AI.
That model has generated more than $22 million in funded research and commercial work with NASA, NIST, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ExxonMobil, FOX, NBC, Fender, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. I lead a team of more than fifty and develop the partnerships, facilities, and programs that sustain its work. Students operate inside that ecosystem from the beginning, working alongside faculty and professionals on funded research, commercial productions, and projects for real clients.
I came to this work through two decades in the New York entertainment industry as a Design Supervisor and Production Designer for HBO, Netflix, Paramount, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions. I continue an active professional design practice alongside my research and administrative work, from mission patch design for NASA’s Production Operations group to professional theatre. In Fall 2026, I am designing for Oregon Cabaret Theatre.
I was an early adopter of generative creative tools in professional design practice and have become part of the national conversation around how AI is changing creative work. Arts organizations retain me to advise on that transition, and I speak on the implications of generative media for professional, academic, and cultural institutions.
The through-line of my career is the design of constructed realities and the systems that make complex ideas tangible, spatial, and legible to people. Today, that means building the infrastructure, teams, and institutions that allow creative practice, research, technology, and industry to operate together. I build institutions meant to outlast me.