David Backer
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- Fluent Machines, Inc.
- Mirror Systems
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1991
David Backer has been developing interactive video systems for over eleven years. He is one of the first three graduates of the PhD program at the MIT Media Laboratory, based on his work on the “Movie Manual”, a prototype for the electronic book.
He is currently V. P. of Video Applications at Fluent Machines Inc., developers of software and hardware that enable full-motion digital video and audio in networked computers. Prior to Fluent Machines, he was Director of Videodisc Systems at Mirror Systems Inc., a subsidiary of the Times Mirror Company that developed interactive videodisc software and courseware for business applications. He has been involved with computers and graphics since 1967, and has taught computer graphics with artist Roben Mallary at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Art department. He was also a founding member of the first psychedelic light show in El Paso, Texas.
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Artwork Collaboration(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Courses]
New Media Applications in Art and Design Organizer(s): [Kaprow]
Presenter(s): [Backer] [Maxwell] [Rosendahl] [Wilson]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]
Role(s):
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Collaborator
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Panels Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
