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After joining the BBC in London as an editor Gary quickly moved on to lead the BBC’s development of the internet, interactive TV and emerging platforms from 95-04 as Senior Producer and Development Manager. 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 in ‘96 introduced the first video and audio onto the BBC’s internet sites. He also 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. 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.

Gary is currently 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 also currently building and devising commercial and game-like services for virtual worlds, having recently produced and built both Australian Telstra and ABC Second Life presences in Second Life as Head of Virtual Worlds with the UK based Project Factory. 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.

Garys web universe
www.PersonalizeMedia.com - Gary’s main media blog
www.GaryHayes.TV - Focus on Advanced TV blog
www.Cubrisound.com - Gary’s Filmic Composer Site
www.JustVirtual.com - POV as Gary Hazlitt in Second Life
www.Korkyt.net - Cross link to Gary’s Flickr Pro Collection
www.TheProjectFactory.com - Gary is Head of MUVE Development
www.MUVEDesign.com - An early research site into Multi User Virtual Environments

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