Name: Judson Rosebush
Title: President
Company: Judson Rosebush Company Inc.
Contact Info: http://www.rosebush.com
How I arrived at my present job (academic and other influences): I became committed to the idea that environments could be formed on a computer and that we could then explore them, animate them and so on, and that this world was very flexiable artistically.
Amount of time spent working daily (at home and office): 12 hours.
What I do to get myself thinking creatively: Smoke.
My problem-solving strategy: Make a list, and go one step at a time.
What I do to relieve stress: Boating.
My hero, mentor, or person I most admire and why: Timothy Leary. Because a) he showed to the Western world that illusion is real, b) that reality is an illusion, and c) that from nature's point of view the role of humans is to advance the cell line, not visa versa.
What I do to mentor those who work for me: Don't scream at them when they make mistakes, be patient, listen, guide them through a task the first time, try to be honest with them.
How a negative event changed my life in a positive way: When I got fired from the Everson Museum after publishing the Nam June Paik book I took the opportunity to begin a career in computer graphics.
One event or decision in my life I wish I could go back and change: Too many partners in Digital Effects.
What values are the most important to me and what I value in others: Trustworthiness, commitment to hard work and solving problems, thinking, thinking ahead, avoiding trouble.
What inspires, motivates, or gets me excited about my job on a daily basis: Building something long lasting. Organizing it.
Biography: Judson Rosebush is a director and producer of multimedia products and computer animation, an author, artist and media theorist. He graduated from the College of Wooster in 1969 and received a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He has worked in radio and television broadcasting, sound and video production, print, and hypermedia. He completed his first computer animation in 1970 and founded Digital Effects Inc. in New York (1978-1985), the company which introduced computer animation to the commercial marketplace. Television credits include directing over 1000 commercials and logos for major advertising agencies and networks worldwide, and feature films credits include Walt Disney's TRON. In the early 1990s, he co-authored and directed television programs on Volume Visualization and HDTV and the Quest for Virtual Reality.
The Judson Rosebush Company, founded in 1986 and located in New York City, is a creative multimedia studio currently producing commercial and entertainment CD-ROM titles and world wide web sites. Rosebush Company completed its first CD-ROM, Isaac Asimov's The Ultimate Robot, published by Byron Press Publications and distributed by Microsoft, in 1993. Rosebush then directed Gahan Wilson's Haunted House CD-ROM, published by Microsoft in 1994. Other titles include Ocean Voyager in 1995, and The War in Vietnam, a joint venture between CBS News and The New York Times, distributed by Macmillan Digital in 1996. In 1996 Rosebush's company delivered its fifth commercial CD-ROM, Look What I See, a title devoted to teaching art appreciation to young people and produced in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In early 1997 Rosebush will complete a 60 Year History of DC Comics, to be distributed by Good Times Software, and which features an entire 3D cyberworld.
The Judson Rosebush Company currently publishes, under the name of Wildside Press, a line of fine art CD-ROMs of classic steel engravings. Titles include People and Portraits, Designs and Dropcaps, Arms and Armor, Animals, and Castles and Cathedrals.
Rosebush is the co-author of Computer Graphics for Designers and Artists, originally published in 1986 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., with a 2nd edition released in 1994, and the co-author of Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM, published by O'Reilly in 1996. Currently he is completing a book on Computer Animation for the same publisher. Rosebush is the American editor of Pixel Vision magazine, author of the serialized Pixel Handbook, and a columnist for CD-ROM Professional. His most cited writings include "The Proceduralist Manifesto," a statement on computer art published in Leonard, and he is also known for his extensive writings on computer graphics and new media. More popular credits include articles in The Village Voice and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Rosebush has exhibited his computer generated drawings and films in numerous museum shows, and the drawings have been reproduced in hundreds of magazines and books, prompting speaking engagements as a national ACM lecturer. He is skilled at computer programming and system design as well as in the graphic arts. A consultant for media technology companies in America, Europe, and Brazil, he also assisted Hammond Atlas in designing their digital mapping system.
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