David Tamés

David Tamés
8 Otis Place, Roslindale, Massachusetts 02131
david@kino-eye.com | 617.216.1096 | kino-eye.com/reel/
Experience Summary
• Producing Media Projects
• Cinematic Storytelling
• Cinematography / Videography
• Professional Lighting
• Video Editing (Final Cut Pro)
• Sound Recording and Editing
Recent Projects
• Teaching Technical Subjects to Creative People
• Photography (Photoshop, Aperture)
• Project Budgeting, Scheduling, Management
• Marketing
• Web Development (XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL)
• Experience Architecture / Interaction Design
Web Developer, Coffeelands Landmine Victims’ Trust, 2007, work in progress web site,
coffeelandstrust.org
Project Manager, MIT TechTV, 2007, video sharing site for the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology community, beta web site, techtv.mit.edu
Producer, Director, Smile Boston Project, 20 min., 2007, documentary, Winner, Best Short
Documentary, 16th Woods Hole Film Festival, in festival circuit, kino-eye.com/smile/
Co-Producer, Co-Director/Editor, Remembering John Marshall, 16 min., 2006, documentary,
festival screenings in the U.S., U.K, and Germany, distributed by Documentary Educational
Resources, kino-eye.com/rjm/
Professional Experience
Principal, Innovation Catalyst Partners, Inc. (a.k.a. Kino-Eye.com Productions), Boston,
Massachusetts, January 2002 to Present, media technology consulting and production
services for a wide range of clients including Motorola, Orange, The Pearson Foundation,
Third Sector New England, The Touch Lab at MIT, MIT IS&T, Massachusetts Film Office,
Iguana Films, Magic Tailout Media, Cambridge Innovation Center, and several start-ups
Producer/Editor, MIT Libraries, Academic Media Production Services, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, June 2006 to June 2007 (one-year contract), produce, shoot, and edit a wide
range of video projects for on-campus clients and manage the design and implementation of
MIT TechTV, a video sharing site for the MIT community
Design Lead, Innovation Center, Viant Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, January 1999 to
October 2001, digital business strategy projects for clients like Universal Music, Coca-Cola,
eMap, and Diageo
Director of Marketing, Cineric Inc., New York, New York, August 1997 to December 1998,
film post-production and film restoration services
Multimedia Producer, Marinex Multimedia, New York, New York, March 1996 to December
1996, video production and post-production for The East Village, an innovative web episodic
Senior Systems Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., Northern California Sales & Marketing, San
Francisco, California, March 1988 to September 1992, sales support for strategic clients
including Stanford University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and United Airlines
Marketing Support Specialist, Harris Corporation, Computer Systems Division, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida, January 1984 to February 1988, technical support for demanding realtime
computing clients developing R&D flight simulators

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Teaching Experience
Program Director, Digital Filmmaking, Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University,
Waltham, Massachusetts, August 2004 to February 2006 (as curriculum design consultant
May 2004 through July 2004), launch of a new digital filmmaking program, design
curriculum, hire faculty, oversee first five classes of students
Instructor, “Experience Architecture,”,Viant Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, January
1999 to October 2001, class for new employees on Viant’s methodology for designing
experiences in terms of business objectives, end-user goals, and the context of interaction
Instructor, The Reel School, New York, New York, 1999
Research Assistant, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1993 to
February 1996, Teaching Assistant for “Elastic Movie Time” (Fall ’93) and “Cinematic
Storytelling” (Spring ’94) courses
Technical Instructor, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1992 to
August 1993
Education
M.S., Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1996, Thesis: “Some Assembly Required: Cinematic Knowledge-Based
Reconstruction of Structured Video Sequences,” an investigation of tools and techniques for
the creation of multiple point-of-view narratives using object-based media and real-time
compositing techniques, graduate thesis advisor: Glorianna Davenport (Media Arts &
Sciences)
Film Production, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1989-1991,
academic credit course work in film history, writing, cinematography, and editing
B.S., Computer & Cognitive Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1983,
Interdisciplinary Studies thesis explored the technical, psychological, and philosophical
issues of the artificial intelligence debate, thesis advisors: Douglas Dankel (Computer &
Information Sciences) and Thomas Simon (Philosophy)
B.A., Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1983, Honors thesis explored
consciousness within the context of the history of science, undergraduate thesis advisor: J.
Jay Zeman
Film, Video, and Lighting Design
Additional Editor, Post-Production Supervisor, Rebel (forthcoming), ITVS funded feature
documentary, directed by Maria Agui Carter, produced by Iguana Films
Director of Photography (Boston Segments), The Singularity is Near (forthcoming), feature
documentary, directed by Toshi Hoo, produced by Ray Kurzweil, Jason Houston, Pulse Films
Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Look In Your Eyes (2006), music video, from the
album “20 Minutes Into the Future” by Colin Owens
Co-Producer, Co-Editor, MIT ZigZag (2006-2007). Video Podcast presenting the diversity of
the MIT experience, Episodes 9 to 14, web.mit.edu/zigzag/
Director, Co-Producer, Destiny (2001), short film (35mm), produced by David Chachere and
Liza Case
Director of Photography, Breath (1999), feature-length film (16mm), directed & produced by
Ken Klein
Director, Editor, I Can Feel Your Silence (1998), music video, from the album “Etched in
Stone” by Triple Goddess

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Lighting Designer, Rumblings of a Romance Renaissance (1997), stage play, directed by
Alfredo DeVilla, written by Gavin O'Connor, produced by Cindy Nelson Mullen, The Mint
Space, New York
Director of Photography, Post-production Supervisor, Never Met Picasso (1996), feature
film (35mm), directed by Stephen Kijak, featuring Alexis Arquette and Margot Kidder,
theatrical and home video release, praised with “colorful lensing” by Variety and “nicely
composed cinematography” by the Boston Globe
Director of Photography, Producer, Two Viewpoints (1995), interactive media, directed by
Tony Romain, Interactive multimedia storytelling system, MIT Media Laboratory
Assistant Lighting Designer, Videographer, Programmer, Wheel of Life (1993), large-scale
interactive media installation directed by Glorianna Davenport and Larry Friedlander, Villers
Experimental Media Theater, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Videographer, Photographer, Editor, The East Village (1996), ground-breaking episodic
entertainment web site combining video, images, music, and text, directed by Lee
Morgenroth, winner of the New Media Magazine InVision Gold Award
‣ This is a partial list, for a complete list see kino-eye.com/projects/
Speaking Engagements
Panelist, “Future Now: New Media and the Modern Filmmaker,” New Hampshire Film
Festival, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 13, 2007
Speaker, Opening Remarks, Rhode Island Film Forum, Rhode Island International Film
Festival, Providence, Rhode Island, August 9, 2007
Organizer, Presenter, “Media Literacy for the 21st Century,” 16th Woods Hole Film Festival,
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 1, 2007
Organizer, Moderator, “The future of long form documentary in the age of Internet video,”
16th Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 29, 2007 (video and audio
available on WGBH Forum)
Speaker, Opening Remarks, Making Media Now: Filmmaking in Transition, Boston
University, Boston, June 1, 2007
Moderator, “New Technologies / The Digital Market,” Festival do Rio 2006 (Rio International
Film Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 28, 2006
Panelist, “Marketing & Distribution Strategies for Independent Filmmakers,” 15th Woods
Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 5, 2006
Panelist, “Social Issue Documentary,” 15th Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, August 3, 2006
Panelist, “Beyond Theatrical: New Opportunities for Distribution,” Roxbury Film Festival,
Boston, Massachusetts, July 29, 2006
Organizer, Panel Moderator, “Cinema in the New Millennium: New Screens, Devices, and
Forms,” Festival do Rio 2005 (Rio International Film Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
September 29, 2005
Panelist, “DV Filmmaking,” Meeting of the New England Section of the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers, December 15, 2004
Presenter, “An Experience Design Framework for Multiple Channels,” MLE Narrative
Workshop, Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland, December, 2000
Speaker, “Peer to Peer: Beyond the Hype,” Digital Convergence Seminar, The Ford
Foundation, New York, New York, October, 2000

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Speaker, “Active Messaging,” 7th Annual Living Surfaces Conference, American Center for
Design, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1999
Speaker, “Faded Color Restoration of ‘Bell, Book and Candle’,” Association of Moving Image
Archivists Annual Conference, Miami, Florida, December, 1998
Panelist, “The Reel Thing: Digital Film Restoration,” Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, July,
1998
Speaker, “Faded Color Negative Restoration,” Association of Moving Image Archivists
(AMIA) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October, 1997
Panelist, “Advances in Digital Film Restoration,” ShowBiz Expo, Los Angeles, California,
June, 1998
‣ This is a partial list, for a complete list see kino-eye.com/speaking/
Published Articles
“A Conversation with Les Blank,“ The Independent, October 2007
“DIY Distribution: Kevin Anderton knows--keep it short, make it funny, and get it online,“
New England Film, July 2007
“Getting Even: A third-world community fights back through film in Favela Rising,”
MovieMaker, Vol. 13, No. 62 (Spring 2006), pp. 40-42
“NAB2006 Report: Camera Trends,“ Imagine, Vol. 9, No. 94, May 2006
“Macro Trends in Media and Entertainment,” Imagine, Vol. 9, No. 90, December 2005/
January 2006
“Remembering John Marshall,” NewEnglandFilm, June 2005. (co-authored with Alice Apley)
“BabelVision: Better Image Searching Through Shared Annotations,” ACM Interactions Vol.
11, No. 2, March+April 2004, pp. 18-26, (co-authored with Ken Haase)
“Film is dead... and we have killed it,” New York Independent Film Monitor, Vol. 7, No. 5,
March 2002
“Multi-Modal Interaction with a Multi-Threaded Documentary,” ACM CHI '95 Proceedings,
Denver, Colorado, May 7-11, 1995 (co-authored with Joshua Bers, Sara Elo, and Sherry
Lassiter)
‣ This is a partial list, for a complete list see kino-eye.com/articles/
Professional Activities
Board of Directors, Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2007 to present
Advisory Board, Upland Productions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006 to present
Advisory Board, Ambient Devices, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001 to present
Co-Chair, Second Multiples of One Conference, Bartos Theater, MIT Media Laboratory,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 7-8, 2003, a prescient conference exploring the
intersection of design, technology, and business in three sessions: nodes (individuals and the
network), pods (groups and the network), and pools (society and the network)
Judge, Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC) Annual Awards, Entertainment and
Technology Category Judging, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001, 2002, 2003 (now MITX)
Executive Advisory Committee, Digital Life Consortium, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 2001