- V Owen Bush is a designer, producer, and filmmaker who uses immersion and participation to create transformative social experiences. His works have been seen worldwide in venues such as digital planetariums, live concerts and events, IMAX3D, broadcast television, mobile devices, and the web.
V was born in Quebec, Canada. He was named "Vishwanath" upon his birth by Neem Karoli Baba, a renowned Hindu sage. In 1995 V graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film and Television. As a producer at the innovative Pseudo Programs Inc., he created some of the first net-casts and viral videos of the early web. Pseudo established itself as the creative icon of New York's Silicon Alley with a series of live events and social experiments that either V produced or collaborated on. In 1997 V left Pseudo to help launch AMP on MTV, a TV series of electronic music videos with over two million weekly viewers. AMP introduced much of the USA and global audiences to electro-culture, it was hailed by the New York Times as "the coolest show on television". As AMP's associate producer, V was responsible for much of AMP's programming and packaging.
V was a principal player in the Immersionist art movement which bridged the NY art boom of the 80's to the dot-com boom of the 90's. V participated in, designed and produced many multi sensorial pop-up events largely in Williamsburg Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan. Throughout this period V collaborated with hundreds of artists and entertainers in groups such as Vapor Action, Floating Point Unit, Soundlab, Ongolia, Ovni, Fakeshop, Unity Gain, and Artificial TV. As a live video artist, V has toured with musicians, DJ's and dance/theatre across the US, Europe, and Latin America. V was a lead producer of the legendary Quiet! Event, where over 100 people lived, ate, and slept together under constant video surveillance for one month before new years day 2000. V and his work on the Quiet! event are portrayed in the film, "We Live in Public", the winner of 2009 Sundance grand jury prize for best documentary.
V developed broadcast television promos for NBC, MTV, VH1, PBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Discovery, History Channel, NY1, and others as a freelance motion-designer. In 2001, V helped create the curriculum for the world's first master's degree in broadcast design as an adjunct professor at Parson's School of Design. V was the the Editor and Composite Artist of "Sonic-Vision", the full-dome visual music show developed for New York's Hayden Planetarium with a soundtrack mixed by Moby. For over eight years, Sonic-Vision has been a cultural staple and tourist attraction in New York and many other cities around the world.
Since 2003, V has directed the Molecularium Project, realizing the vision of 3 executive scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the co-writer and director of "Molecularium", a digital planetarium show funded by the National Science Foundation. "Molecularium" reinvents the dome venue, using character-based animation to take audiences into the nano-scale world of atoms and molecules. In September 2009, "Molecules to the MAX! 3D" opened for IMAX3D, IMAX Dome, and Giant-Screen film theaters. V is the director and co-writer of this animated large-format feature, and the president of it's production company, Nanotoon Entertainment. V managed a team of over 150 skilled professionals, scientists, engineers and students in an unprecedented collaboration between creatives and educators. "Molecules" and "Molecularium" have been versioned in seven languages and are in growing distribution to theaters, planetariums and museums worldwide. V is the co-producer, co-writer and director of "Nanospace" a virtual theme park of atoms and molecules, that launched in 2012 as a online hub for the Molecularium Project. Nanospace ignites learning in young minds through video-games, interactive activities, and short movies.
In 2010 V produced, directed and edited "Love Serve Remember", a collaboration with Ram Dass. The short film is a 40th anniversary companion piece to Ram Dass' spiritual classic "Be Here Now". The film is distributed by Harper Collins Publishers in a trans-media strategy for the iPad and iPhone.
V is a co-founder and principal in Glowing Pictures, a company whose visual work includes televised concerts, music videos, commercials, multimedia operas, and immersive visual environments. Glowing Pictures' clients include Google, Twitter, Vh1, MySpace, the Beastie Boys, the Creator's Project, Eyebeam, Lincoln Center, and many others. Glowing Pictures are the resident visual designers of "One Step Beyond", a monthly live event at the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of the Universe.- IMDb Mini Biography By: V Owen Bush
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