Ben Howell Davis

benhowelldavis@eastlink.ca

Bone-Davis International Consultants, Nova Scotia, Canada. Senior Scientist, Strategic Development Director, Media and Entertainment, Razorfish, Inc., (2000-2001). Manager, Electronic Publications, Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA., (1999-2000). Board of Directors, Virtual Heritage Network, Program Manager, Communications, Getty Information Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, (1995-1999). Research Associate, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI). Manager, MIT CECI AthenaMuse Software Consortium and Multimedia Application Development (1991-1994); Manager, MIT/Project Athena Visual Computing Group (1987-1991); Fellow, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1983-84); Instructor, MIT Media-Lab, Visible Language Workshop (1988); Chair, Research Consortium of the National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive Educational Technology at the Smithsonian Institution (1988-1990); Instructor, Aspects of Visualization and Formal Analysis of Media, Teachers College, Columbia University, Department of Communication, Computing, and Technology (1988-89); Lecturer, MIT Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning (1990); Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Electronic Imagery, Atlanta College of Art (now a division of the Savanah College of Art and Design), Atlanta, GA (1975-1986); Master of Fine Arts, Florida State University (1975); Bachelor of Science, Communications, the University of Florida (1970).

Resume

Recent Articles 2005

Cumulative Complexity: Understanding the Scope of Digital Liquidity, Continuity, and Viability. (pdf). Journal of Digital Asset Management, Vol 1, 1, Henry Stewart Publications, London, 2005.

A Different Planet, Neuromedia Asset Management. (pdf) Journal of Digital Asset Management, Vol 1, 2, Henry Stewart Publications, London, 2005.

MIT Visual Computing Group Interface Designs

Smithsonian ComputerWorld Award 

Bibliographies

Creator of the Introduction to ...Series: Managing Digital Assets, Achival Description, Digital Imaging, Metadata, Vocabularies, Object ID. Getty Trust Publications.

Co-Editor of Time and Bits:Managing Digital Continuity, Getty Trust Publications. (Time and Bits Web site)at the Longnow Foundation.)

Electronic Publication Manager for : Bibliography of the History of Art CD ROM, The Getty Provenance CD ROM, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals CD ROM. Getty Trust Publications.

Producer, Millennium Lectures, Getty Center, 1998-99:

Crossing the Millennial Divide, Hillel Schwartz.

Being Global, Nicholas Negroponte.

A Sixth Memo for the Next Millennium: Vulnerability, Ruth Behar.

Selected Articles (1982-2000)

• All in Good Timing, Razorfish Reports, October, 2000.
• Tom's Rules of Thumbing, Razorfish Reports, August, 2000.
• Digital Storytelling, Razorfish Reports, May, 2000.
• Transcript of Digital Film Forum, UCLA, May 2000.
• What will become of New Media?, Spectra, Publication of the Museum Computer Network, 2000.
• Photography and the Internet Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1999.
• Our Good Earth: The Landscape at the End of the Century, Hemphill Fine Arts, 1999.
• Art and Environment, 1999.
• Cultural Memory, Virtual Worlds and Simulations Conference, San Francisco, January 17-20, 1999.
• Digital Reference: Building and Rebuilding, Visual Resource Association Conference Los Angeles, CA, February, 1999.
• Making Aesthetic Judgments in the Information Age, 1998.
• Introduction to Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, Getty Center, 1998.
• Book Publishing: The Web, CD-ROM and other Digital Dreams, 1997.
• Digital Technology: Where Are We?, 1997.
• The Future of the Past, Scientific American, August, 1997.
• The Culture Machine: Science and Art on the Web, Scientific American, August, 1996.
• The Gallery in the Machine, Scientific American, 1995.
• Interview: From Concentration to Manipulation, 1994.
• Teacher of the Future, 1994.
• Wheel of Culture, 1994.
• Digital Museums, 1994.
• The Human Interface to Large Multimedia Databases, 1994.
• Arts/Humanities on Infobahn, 1994.
• Looking and Learning Through Computers, 1993.
• Infrathin Multimedia, 1993.
• Image Learning, 1991.
• Teaching with Media, 1991.
• Environmental Multimedia Networks, 1991.
• Apprende au futur, 1990.
• Ballet Mecanique, 1988.
• Moving Diaries, 1988.
• Time of the Teacher, 1988.
• Imagining Antarctica, 1986.
• Memory Theater One, 1985.
• Ben Davis, Georgia State University Art Gallery, 1985.
• Sky Disc - Implications, 1984.
• Without Windows, 1982.

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