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Todd Berreth is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts, Design and Technology in the College of Design at North Carolina State University and a core faculty member of the Chancellor’s Visual Narrative Cluster. His work bridges design, art, and technology to create innovative interactive experiences that transform narrative consumption and production.
His educational background includes a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where he won the Paul Philippe Cret Medal for top graduate design thesis, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art (Sculpture and Media Studies Concentration) from Carleton College.
Berreth's research centers on human-computer interaction and visual narrative, leveraging emerging technologies like mixed reality, AI, and tangible interfaces to democratize digital humanities. He develops open-source toolkits that empower communities to alter physical environments and expand storytelling capabilities, fundamentally redefining relationships between information creators and consumers through projects like TITA and ACOMS.
His publication portfolio reveals a dominant trend in augmented reality storytelling for educational and cultural contexts, with emphasis on multidisciplinary classroom applications and museum exhibition design. These works consistently integrate tangible interaction principles and open-source frameworks to enable hands-on narrative exploration.
Notable recognitions include the Paul Philippe Cret Medal, Van Alan Traveling Fellowship, Arthur Spayd Brooke Prize, and an Outstanding Work Award at China's 2015 Tangible Interaction Design Exhibition. He was also a 3M Art and Technology Award semi-finalist.
Berreth actively serves as an ACM Siggraph reviewer and juror while maintaining industry collaborations forged during his architectural career at firms like Freelon Group and Kieran Timberlake. His Duke University tenure involved cross-departmental projects merging art, engineering, and performance through sensor installations and computational media.
As a Visual Narrative Cluster core member, he directs projects including The Black Tuesday Experience and Story-go-round, which deploy interactive technologies for historical simulation and cultural heritage preservation across international venues from IEEE Visweek to the China Museum of Science and Technology.
