DOUGLAS GAYETON
Since the early 90’s Douglas Gayeton has created award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and converging media for such clients as AOL, MSN, MTV, Yahoo, Fox, Napster, Electronic Arts, Vivendi, Sony, Ubisoft, Viacom, Sega, Intel, National Geographic, PBS, Warner Bros, Columbia, and Virgin Records.
In 1993 Gayeton directed “Tomorrow”, the first documentary about interactive television. He subsequently developed interactive projects for Viacom & ATT, then went on to explore the subject of Interactive TV for MTV and U2's short-lived ZOO TV television series.
With William Gibson he wrote and directed JOHNNY MNEMONIC, the first interactive cd-rom based movie, for Sony Imagesoft. He then wrote and designed BIG BROTHER, a cd-rom sequel to George Orwell's 1984 with Media-X, and designed an interactive version of EINSTEIN'S DREAMS with writer Alan Lightman.
A graphic novel by Gayeton, DELTA STATE, became an animated television series for Alphanim, Nelvana, and Canal + (26 half-hour episodes). Aside from creating the original property, Gayeton wrote and directed the pilot. It received a special award for best new television series from the Annecy Animation Festival in 2004.
For HBO and Cinemax he wrote, produced and directed MOLOTOV ALVA AND HIS SEARCH FOR THE CREATOR: A SECOND LIFE ODYSSEY, the first documentary shot inside virtual world. It has screened at film festivals around the world and has been the highest rated video in the world on You Tube.
Gayeton has worked on a variety of additional social network and virtual world platforms including Gaia, Habbo Hotel, Scenecaster, Zwinktopia and most recently Sony’s Playstation Home, the world’s first high def virtual world. It goes into public beta in November 2008.
Other projects include LOST IN ITALY, a 26 episode interstitial TV series Gayeton created, directed, and shot for Fine Living, a US cable network and MY SHOES ARE CAKED WITH MUD, a photographic series for PBS awarded a Webby for best broadband website of 2004. More images by Gayeton can be seen online at www.gayeton.com/photoworks .
Gayeton has consulted on video games for the largest publishers in the business. GHOST RECON, a game he wrote, was nominated for best script and honored with the BAFTA for 2006’s videogame of the year .
Gayeton is profiled in So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life by Jacob Slichter, The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World by Wagner James Au,The Interactive Writer’s Handbook by Jon Hamsel, and I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life by Mark Meadows.
He lectures around the world on new approaches to media and his work has been added to the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, and Trento’s Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali.
