meriko borogove

meriko borogove is a technical design director, photographer, professor, and a bit of a troublemaker. She partners with studios, theatres, researchers and creatives who push the boundaries of technology in the service of story, art and community. meriko’s current cross-disciplinary work centers on new interfaces and media languages in emergent narrative fields.   

meriko’s time at Apple included 22 years building core engineering and design teams and inventing critical and foundational media, gaming and ML technologies with a number of patents still registered today.  She was a founding member of the iPhone team, and was responsible for building the iPhone cameras—changing photography and videography forever.

Today, meriko works with ScanLAB Projects , where she is the Executive Producer of FRAMERATE, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2022, and the Co-Director and Executive Producer of Felix’s Room a coproduction with the Berliner Ensemble and the Komisch Opera that premiered in June 2023 at the BE. she is an Honorary Professor of Creative Technologies at the Royal Holloway College of London, and served as the founding CTO for the brand new CoSTAR National Lab for R&D in Creative Technology . Additional recent collaborators include The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Fancy a podcast? meriko recently talked with Evan and Josh from CoolHunting on Design Tangents about making new work at the edge of what’s possible, cameras & spatial media, and the future of entertainment.

meriko splits her time between San Francisco and Brooklyn , misses New Zealand, and resists the patriarchy at every opportunity.