About Gary
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Gary an award winning new media producer based in Australia, currently lectures in Transmedia & Multi Platform at AFTRS & other institutions and runs the Innovation Unit LAMP. Commercially he runs MUVEDesign (a virtual, augmented & alternate reality development company) and is also a keynote speaker, consultant producer in social & networked media to the TV, Film and Arts industries.
After many years working in the UK’s Music and Multimedia industry Gary joined the BBC in London firstly as a multimedia editor and within months became the Senior Development Producer/Manager and lead the BBC’s development of the internet, interactive TV and emerging platforms from 95-04. He devised & produced many of the BBC’s ‘firsts’ – Digital Text, the first broadcast interactive TV service – ‘Nomad’ the first live internet documentary – ‘X-Creatures’ the first broadband TV service and even introduced the first video and audio onto the BBC’s internet sites in 1996. Gary produced and devised over 20 other eTV and broadband TV services including Top of the Pops, Travel Show, State Apart and several future BBC cross-platform navigators. He also conceived with the linear show producers award winning iTV projects such as Antiques Roadshow, Walking with Beasts & various BBC iTV game formats. Gary created numerous courses and seminars on Interactive thinking for linear producers, was active in the Blue Sky Imagineering and R&D depts looking at personal TV and virtual spaces and was a leading part of BBC strategy teams from 2001 in preparing for on-demand, cross-platform services.
Living & consulting in the US during 2004-5 he line produced Showtime’s PVR enhanced L-Word, as part of AFI digital labs and devised a range of new on-demand program formats for two national TV networks. Gary also produced & chaired conferences around LA including Hollywood industry panel seminars and Digital Days both looking at emerging media super-distribution models. He also chaired the Business Models Group from 99-03 for TV-Anytime (the lead media-on-demand standards body) and co-authored a Department Trade and Industry Report on Personal Video Systems. He has been an International Interactive Emmy juror for the past two years.
For the last four years Gary has been the Director the Australian Laboratory for Advanced Media Production run through AFTRS (Australian Film TV and Radio School) and based in Sydney. LAMP is probably Australia’s premier emerging media R&D and production labs as teams actually create prototypes, develop strong presentations and evolve the business, technical and creative aspects of their property leading to pilots and user testing. It is a unique mix of seminars, workshops, immersive rapid prototyping residentials and industry focused product development. Through AFTRS he also runs workshops in multi user virtual environments (MUVE) for cinematographers, designers, script writers and directors exploring the potential of shared social online virtual spaces for collaborative production, creativity and education.
From a commercial perspective Gary is CCO and Head of Virtual Worlds with MUVEDesign (and previously the UK based Project Factory respectively) pioneering alternate, augmented & virtual world creation and immersive & organic story experiences for TV/Film, Education, Business & Performance. They are currently building and devising commercial and game-like services for virtual worlds, having recently produced and built major Second Life Australian presences including Telstra, ABC, MultiMedia Victoria Laneways, Deakin University, AFTRS, Thursday’s Fictions & other Fortune 100 companies in Second Life. He runs a fictional MUVE blog JustVirtual and a renowned blog on media personalisation, digital brands, new media forms and creativity at www.personalizemedia.com and has presented at over 250 conferences on subjects ranging from Cross-Media, Advanced and Interactive TV, Personalization, Brands and Education in Virtual Worlds, Media Futures and Interactive Art and Music amoungst others. As a published music producer, composer and performer he has had over 200 works performed live and on TV/Film and Radio.
Contact
Take your pick from any of these emails “gary at personalizemedia.com” or “gary at muvedesign.com” or “mail at garyhayes.tv” or “gary.hayes at aftrs.edu.au” or “gary at korkyt.net” or “gary at justvirtual.com”
Garys web universe
www.PersonalizeMedia.com – Gary’s main media blog. Started mid 2005
www.MUVEDesign.com – His company designing and producing Alternate & Augmented Reality and Virtual Worlds. Started mid 2007
www.LAMP.edu.au – The Australian leading Social & Cross Media Development Lab directed by Gary. Started mid 2005
www.Korkyt.net – Currently Gary’s Filmic Composer Site. (originally homepage/blog format started mid 1995)
www.GaryHayes.TV – Focus on Advanced TV blog. Started beginning 2004
www.JustVirtual.com – POV as Gary Hazlitt in Second Life. Started early 2006
The BBC Musical Nomad – a reconstructed blog site from a live webumentary project (live satellite blogging from Central Asia in 1997) originally at bbc.co.uk/nomad from 1997 – 2008.
Other sites & social media:
www.TheProjectFactory.com – Gary was Head of Virtual Worlds, most content on the site still his work. Started 2007.
Gary’s Web 2.0/3.0 and Social Networks
- Facebook – Gary Hayes
- Twitter – GaryPHayes
- Skype – cubrig31
- MySpace Page
- YouTube The Icarus Channel
- Flickr Pro Account Photos
- Friends Reunited
- Google Video Australian Film TV and Radio School
- Google Video Gary Hazlitt
Selection of wikipedia and wiki cited blog based articles (up to April 07). E.g.:
- LAMP Alternate Reality Games
- Alternate Reality Games in Virtual Spaces
- Cross-Media What Audiences Want
- BBC Production still online from 1997 ‘The Musical Nomad’
- The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse
- Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0 and Portable Profiles
- Witnessing the Birth of An Entertainment Form
- TV property branded Virtual Worlds – the beginning
- Second Life – The Creative Tool for the Masses
- TV formats in Shared Spaces, Virtual “Big Brother
- Phase Two – TV & Design Brands and Virtual Worlds
- Merged-Media Entertainment – where reality ends, virtuality begins
- Putting the Space in Virtual – Second Life
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Gary,
I wanted to thank you for your social media counter. I linked it to my blog, and linked your site to mine, I hope that’s okay. I really enjoyed going through your site. I help small businesses and non-profits learn more about public relations and social media, so your site is a huge resource. Thank you again, I just wanted you to know I was very happy to have run across it.
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That’s very kind Chris – glad you found it useful, I actually discovered uses for it even I didn’t intend – and thanks for linking too! Check out laurelpapworth.com too for loads of social media tips as well.
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Hi Gary,
Wondering what widget you used to do your \connect with me\ buttons (RSS, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, You Tube). All I’m finding is Share widgets, plus I like the style of the ones you have. Any advice is much appreciated!
Thanks
Bethany
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Dear Gary Hayes
Congratulations on your site with its stimulating statistics. As an histoiran in the traditon of McLuhan I would be grateful if you could add dates re: when your website began.
With thanks and all good wishes
Yours truly
Kim
Kim H Veltman
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Hi Kim
Thanks for your message and great idea adding dates to my various web incarnations. Please find the ‘web universe’ section now with start dates. Forgot that korkyt.net was my first homepage/blog that I was actually running in 1995 and listed for a while as one of the first 3500 ‘personal webpages’
Wayback machine started to pick it up in 1998 here http://web.archive.org/web/19990220221312/www.korkyt.net/Pages/homepage/index1.html
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really fucking crazy!!!
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