Neil
Sieling is the New Media Fellow at The Center for Social Media
(CSM, centerforsocialmedia.org)
, a group that showcases and analyzes strategies to use media
as creative tools for public knowledge and action. He was the
Principal Researcher for the new CSM study entitled "Recut,
Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated
Video," available at
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/recut_reframe_recycle.
His work with the CSM includes partnering with DocAgora( www.docagora.org/)
with a focus on their presence at international documentary festivals
and markets, and developing an interoperable web-based system
of useful information and analyses on the rapidly changing new
media scene. He was on the launch team for and currently works
with Link TV on Acquisitions and New Media (www.linktv.org).
He was the Executive Producer of Alive From Off Center, the experimental
arts/television showcase on PBS that ran from 1985-1996. He was
the Executive Producer for the digitally animated documentary
works "Figures of Speech" in 1999 (www.itvs.org/figuresofspeech)
by Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta (Co-Creators of "Waking
Life" and "A Scanner Darkly"). Past projects include
work for the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the Open Society
Institute, POV and a DVD study for National Video Resources (now
Re/New Media and the study is at
http://www.nvr.org/content.php?pro=dvd).
He was a co-convener of the Digital Independence
gatherings in 2001 and 2004. He also works with groups that attempt
to connect everyday economic decisions with people's values via
card-based transactional,membership, and social networking systems.
This includes The Interra Project and Mass Roots, a new group
that intends to develop tools that enable ordinary citizens to
leverage their economic power to combat climate change and encourage
more sustainable development. (www.massrootsproject.com).
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NEIL SIELING