Faculty

As a creative director for experiences and media campaigns, Carsten Becker has advised a diverse clientele of innovation brands, tech companies, non-profit organizations, and media outlets on impactful and tangible representations of ideas that provide dialog with audiences through engagement and interaction.

Leading teams at agencies across immersive storytelling, visual design, brand identity, film marketing, and sports, Becker gathered a vast amount of insights into the creative process. He has worn the hats of strategist, visual designer, technologist, pitch-maker, department head, problem-solver (mostly!), and studio owner. 

At the USC Iovine and Young Academy, he has developed and is teaching undergrad and master-level courses exploring intersections of extended reality with a range of applications like productivity, collaboration, embodiment, health, the arts, and virtual fashion. In his courses, students also pursue new connections of technology with human expression and experience. With previous teaching assignments at art schools, Becker describes the difference in teaching at the Iovine and Young Academy in the natural tendency and capacity of IYA students to connect the human senses, curiosity, technology and purpose into new realms of innovation.

 Becker’s professional credits include work for A24, Apple, Cirque du Soleil, Marvel, Meta, Netflix, Nike, and Snap, to name a few.