David Tamés Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Joint appointment in the Department of Art + Design and Communication Studies in the College of Arts, Media and Design. Courses taught include Video Basics, Narrative Basics, Video: Sound + Image, Introduction to Film Production, and Writing with a Camera in Ecuador.

Boston, Ma, Us

Joint appointment in the Department of Art + Design and Program in Media and Screen Studies in the College of Arts, Media and Design. Courses include Video Basics, Narrative Basics, Video: Sound + Image, Introduction to Film Production, Writing with a Camera in Ecuador (scheduled for Summer 2020), and Prototyping VR with Unity (scheduled for Spring Break, 2020).

Boston, Ma, Us

Joint appointment in the Department of Art + Design and Program in Media and Screen Studies in the College of Arts, Media and Design. Courses taught include: Video Basics, Video Tools, Video: Sound + image, Narrative Basics, Programming for Digital Media, StoryLab, Writing with a Camera in Ecuador (Summer 2016, 2017), Alternative Realities (Summer 2018).

Member of Board of Directors, Filmmakers Collaborative, a non-profit support organization for independent media makers providing fiscal sponsorship, professional development, and educational programming.

Recent films include: "bookartbookshop" (2021, 10 min.), about a unique shop in London, and "Farm and Red Moon" (2021, 72 min., co-directed with Audrey Kali), a character-driven documentary about the moral quandaries of humane animal slaughter. Prior works include "The David Hamilton Smith Story" (2013, 37 min., co-directed w/ Alice Apley); "Smile Boston Project" (2007, 20 min.), a profile of artist Bren Bataclan; and "Remembering John Marshall" (2006, co-directed w/ Alice Apley, 16 min.) about the late ethnographic filmmaker and activist.

Filmmaker, Media Technologist, Designer, and Strategist specializing in helping companies communicate their new product or service vision. Experience using film/video to helping clients communicate their vision and ideas through cinematic storytelling techniques as well as facilitating the process of partnering with end-users in product design and providing strategy and market analysis in the context of bringing new products and services to market.

Boston, Ma, Us

Media Arts Studio Manager in the Studio Foundations Department. Manage visual language labs, student monitors, and Digital Media Workshop instructors. Contribute to technology planning and curriculum design of Digital Media Workshops.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Producer, Editor, and Media Technologist. Co-founder of MIT TechTV, the video sharing site for the MIT community; Co-Producer/Co-Editor, ZigZag, MIT's Video Podcast; Also involved in the planning and execution of mumerous video and multimedia projects.

Boston, Ma, Us

Program Director of the Digital Filmmaking Certificate Program, kick-started the program, responsible for curriculum, hiring & scheduling instructors, supervising the first three classes of digital filmmaking students through to their final projects.

Analysis of technology trends and evaluation of their impact on clients. Produced prototypes, thought capital, supported business development efforts, and represented Viant at industry conferences and events. Managed relationship with the MIT Media Laboratory. Tracked lab projects and identify those important to clients and Viant. Taught classes on user-centered design methodology. Participated on task force to enhance user-centered design capabilities. Client work included: developing a technology evaluation framework used for new business ventures; on-line music community strategy and design for major record label; disruptive technology identification for a major beverage company; digital technology analysis for a major consumer packaged goods company; and analysis of broadband access trends for an international publishing company.

Director of Marketing, spoke at numerous industry conferences (AMIA, ShowBiz Expo, IFFM, Il Cinema Ritrovato) on topics randing from digital tools for filmmakers and digital film restoration. Also produced and screened numerous video to film tests demonstrating the viability of digital video as an image aquisition medium for eventual 35mm theatrical release prints.

Member of the team producing the award-winning "East Village" websodic and "The Biz" entertainment industry magazine hosted on Time-Warner's Pathfinder web site circa 1996. Cutting-edge online entertainment.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Research in collaborative/interactive documentary projects.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Teach video and audio production techniques in an atelier environment.

Cupertino, California, Us

Marketing and technical support working with aerospace clients.

Mfa, Communication Design

M.S., Media Arts And Sciences

Studies In Film History And Production, Film/Cinema/Video Studies

B.A., Philosophy

B.S., Computer & Cognitive Sciences