KAREN ELISE LEE
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Ms. Lee has contributed to projects in film, video, and interactive media. As a producer, director, editor, and cameraperson, she works on independent projects.

While in Los Angeles, she worked as a videographer on short projects and as an assistant film and television editor. Later, she freelanced as a script reader for the Sundance Film Institute's Los Angeles office after working as a production crew member at the Sundance Film Lab in Utah.

Ms. Lee followed up by teaching Photography and Interactive Computer Art at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Other teaching experience includes several additional assistant positions. For two years, she was the teaching assistant for Bruce Block's "Advanced Filmic Expression" class at the USC School of Cinema-Television. Previously, she served two years as a graduate teaching assistant at Stanford University.

While in the Bay Area, she interned with the modern art collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Anderson, which is now part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As one of two interns, her duties included providing educational tours to art collectors and art groups. She also briefly assisted at the Ansel Adams landscape workshop in Carmel.

Professionally, Ms. Lee has consulted on interactive digital media projects for Universal Studios Interactive/ 3DO, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Stanford University. She contributed to the Stanford Medical School's "Electric Cadaver" project, which proposed teaching virtual surgery. At Compaq, she worked on the PC-Theatre, a convergence Interactive-TV product. At 3DO, she worked on a prototype for "Jurassic Park Interactive."

Ms. Lee is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, Stanford University, and Rice University. She attended a specialized high school for the arts.

Her photography work has been exhibited nationally, received awards, and become part of art collections. She continues to work in photography and film/ video. In addition, much preparatory work in screenwriting precedes the realization phase of her current work.

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