About

I have been involved with New Media for the past 10 years, both professionally ‎and as a hobby. I enjoy experimenting with visuals that capture the imagination ‎and interact with the viewer.‎



While I was studying multimedia, art and animation, my projects were about ‎interacting with the screen and using it as just another object in the space rather ‎than the only object of focus. As part of this interest I started working as an ‎animator in a laser show company because lasers gave me the ability to ‎experiment with animation and light in true space. With lasers I was able to stage ‎my work in front of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of people who were able to ‎interact with the light beams. This got even better with the technical ability to ‎produce 3D lasers in space. Later on in my career (and as shooting lasers at ‎people’s faces became illegal) I moved to on-line games and training (eLearning) ‎as a way of interacting with people. This was my path into education, structural ‎training programmes and information architecture (which are healthier ways of ‎interaction).



‎ Today I work with web based information architecture and help to make these ‎systems become more user friendly. As part of this study I have developed an ‎application I call the "Hypervideo Player" which enables the users to input text ‎based on scenes they remember from films. The application then finds those ‎words that are spoken in the film and moves the play-head to those scenes, all in ‎real-time. As everyone remembers a loved scene in a film in a different way the ‎interaction with the application reconstructs the film in new way. The audience ‎are the VJ!‎

One of my recent projects involves working with young people as a digital media ‎facilitator in high crime rate areas of South East London. This is a fascinating way ‎to understand new ways of achieving interaction in a social environment. Young ‎people today are exposed to interactive games, mobile phones and have a ‎interesting understanding of interaction. By teaching young people and giving ‎them the skills to visually express themselves I hope to find new ways to explore ‎the future of new media and interactivity. In my current projects, amongst other ‎things, I use mobile phones as my subject of interest as every kid has one and ‎these every day items hold valuable capabilities for interaction, communication ‎and information.‎

Ziv Lazar