About Gary

by Gary Hayes on April 27, 2007 · 27 comments

100 word bio – Gary is an award winning multi-platform producer, author, educator and runs MUVEDesign.com and founded in 2010 the global StoryLabs.us aimed at transmedia & innovative digital story-telling. Recently becoming a Distinguished Talent permanent resident in Australia his company MUVEDesign.com creates virtual worlds, augmented and alternate reality services for companies including Telstra, ABC TV, Accenture & advertising and education sectors. He founded the Innovation Training Unit LAMP.edu.au in 2005 and for 8 years previously was the Senior Development Producer at UK BBC New Media, pioneering broadband internet, interactive TV and emerging. He runs personalizemedia.com an AdAge Power150 global media-marketing blog and has been an International Interactive Emmy juror for the past few years.

extended bio - After many years working in the UK’s Music and Multimedia industry Gary joined the BBC in London as a multimedia editor and quickly became a Senior Development Producer then Manager and leading thinker in 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

garyphayes.com - A comprehensive hub site, partly devoted to my composed music feeds

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

Selection of wikipedia and wiki cited blog based articles (up to April 07). E.g.:

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Augmented Reality: storytelling and gaming - Wired | CELEBRITY NEWS: August 28, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Brainspiration » Som ett virus…: October 13, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Gary Hayes’ Social Media Counter | Kunal D Patel | thesis.: October 14, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Števec aktivnosti na socialnih medijih « Scialni mediji: October 14, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Legacy media and social media | Librarians Matter: October 15, 2009 at 9:43 am
Watch it live: The social media at full speed | BetaTales: October 18, 2009 at 4:33 am
300 blogposts in 30 seconds… and counting | The Evolving Newsroom: October 21, 2009 at 8:33 am
Social Media in Zahlen « Reinseite: October 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Social web counter « DE.BU.TE: October 28, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Jam Briggs | Digital Designer | Blog » Blog Archive » Social Media Counter by Gary Hayes: October 28, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Living Statistics: Mobile Industry Counter | o2 Surfstick Blog: October 29, 2009 at 1:51 am
106 nieuwe blogposts in de laatste 10 seconden | Thomas van Manen: November 5, 2009 at 12:10 am
Live Social Media Count – M4ID: January 28, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Why the Social Web Can’t Be Ignored « Literacy is Priceless: February 3, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Social Media Counter - Real Time Statistics: February 18, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Un contatore “social”? « Dr. O-one: March 11, 2010 at 4:06 pm
The WOW Factor – How To Make Clients Believers | V3 Kansas City Integrated Marketing and Social Media Agency: May 18, 2010 at 7:23 am
La actividad y la dinámica de la Web Social al segundo | Rizomática: May 18, 2010 at 4:23 pm
The Explosive New Reality Show … Content | Steve Kayser's Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs: May 29, 2010 at 6:43 am
What Makes the Perfect Transmedia Producer?: June 15, 2010 at 12:37 pm
User Created Transmedia « Il Giornalaio: August 18, 2010 at 2:47 pm

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1 Chris Gallegos November 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm: 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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2 Gary Hayes November 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm: 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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3 LittlegirlBIGVOICE January 9, 2010 at 9:53 am: 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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4 Kim H. Veltman January 15, 2010 at 8:16 pm: 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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5 Gary Hayes January 17, 2010 at 12:01 pm: 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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6 BART February 25, 2010 at 5:10 am: really fucking crazy!!!

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