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Producer / Director / Camcorder Reporter
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Skip Blumberg is a pioneer video producer and director, beginning when the video medium was first developing in the 1960s and ‘70s. With a lively and engaging style, he has produced and directed several hundred award-winning shows and shorts -- specializing in cultural documentaries and performance videos -- that appeared on PBS, National Geographic TV, Showtime, Disney Channel, USA Cable Network, TBS, Bravo, Nickelodeon, the Learning Channel, on international TV networks and on the internet. His best-known production, the triple Emmy-winning Pick Up You Feet: the Double Dutch Show, is considered a documentary video classic.
Blumberg was one of the first camcorder reporters and has produced more than one hundred one-man-crew reports, for PBS’ THE 90s and Signal-to-Noise, Chicago Slices, The Sci-Fi Channel’s Inside Space, National Geographic TV, MyHero.com and others.
His programs have been excerpted on network TV shows; including, Real TV, Today, The Tonight Show, Bravo’s Mystery of Genius, ABC’s That’s Incredible, You Asked For It and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
Blumberg has received many awards and honors including Ohio State University Journalism Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Participating Filmmaker - Sundance Institute Dance Video Lab, Esquire Magazine’s “Best of the Next Generation” and Museum of TV and Radio’s “TV Critics’ Favorite Shows of All-Time.”
Currently he produces shorts for MyHero.com and Sesame Street, as well as developing independent projects.
Distributors:
[+] Museum of Modern Art
[+] Electronic Arts Intermix
[+] Video Data Bank
[+] Facets Multi Media
[+] In Motion Productions, Inc.
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Children's Television Segment Producer/Director
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Clients include: Northside Center for Child Development, NYC Outward Bound Center, The Tibet Center, Aspiring Principals Program, Ms. Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, 21st Century Foundation, Association to Help Retarded Children, The Ms. Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts, and New Haven Free Public Library.
According to NHFPL Director Jim Wellborne, “the video (Campaign for the Library of the 21st Century) was the single factor that led to the enormously successful private fundraising campaign that netted us over $1 million.”
[+] Watch Campaign for the Library of the 21st Century
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Video Artist/Performance Videos
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Skip Blumberg was part of the first wave of independent video producers as a member and collaborator of Videofreex, Ant Farm, TVTV and other production groups. In addition to video installations and events, he has produced several hundred cultural documentaries and performance videos, with a dozen titles in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center (Paris), and Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY).
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One-person exhibitions at Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Photography; retrospectives at Berlin Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival.
Artist-in-residence at WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES (Lake Placid, NY), KTCA / WALKER ART CENTER (Minneapolis), and WNET/13 (NYC).
Produced/curated video exhibitions: Foreign Correspondence: Central America (traveling exhibition throughout NYS supported by NYS Council on the Arts), Image Union (Whitney Museum of American Art), and U.S. EXPRESS. (Distributed internationally by the U.S. Department of State Cultural Programs Division).
Produced media art events at Forum Gallery (St. Louis), Exploratorium (San Francisco), Duke University, Utah Arts Festival, Helena MT Film Society, and Atlanta Arts Festival.
His DVD Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master was picked “Top Ten” in the May 2007 issue of Artforum International Magazine.
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Media Studies Professor
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Appointed as Special Assistant Professor at Hofstra University’s School of Communications 2008-2009.
Workshop teacher at University of Hawaii Summer Media Institute, Ohio Summer Media Institute, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (Columbus, OH) and South Carolina Media Arts Center.
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Artistic Director and workshop trainer for MyHero.com Global Exchange project on-line and on-location in Senegal, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro 2006 – 2008.
Guest Lecturer at NYU Graduate and Undergraduate, Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications and School of the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, Bard College, UC San Diego, Duke University, Appalachian State University (NC), Northwestern University, Edward R. Murrow High School (NYC), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and many others.
Other academic credentials include High School Students Admissions Adjudicator, NYS Summer School for Media Arts; Judge, NYU student film festival; Senior Projects Advisor, Rhode Island School of Design; and Mentor, National Children’s Museum (Washington, DC).
He was a discussion panelist at Gene Siskel Film Center “Guerilla TV,” University of Michigan “Early Video” Weekend Seminar, several panels at Museum of TV and Radio and many more as well as keynote speaker at Videomaker Magazine Video Expo in 2003 and the Louisiana Media Rendezvous in 1992.
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