Robert Gelman
is an author, editor, musician, interactive media developer, and producer
of large events, including conferences, tradeshows, and festivals. He
has also held senior marketing positions and consultancies with leading
publishing and software companies.
His company,
BG & Associates provides
audio and text-based content for companies such as Mindscape Entertainment, Disney, Electronic
Arts, and America Online. In
partnership with Verbum, Inc, he is Senior Internet
producer for the Studio-V
web development team and other web-based ventures, such as Radio-V
. He is also affiliated with Thomas Dolby Robertson's Beatnik, Inc. where he
has produced original online content, and evangelizes the Internet
industry on interactive audio technology.
His writings appear in publications such as Keyboard and The San Francisco
Chronicle and Examiner, and the Verbum
Journal. He served as contributing editor to InterActivity Magazine and contributed regularly to its
sister publication, Music
& Computers. He is also the main author of the
book, "Protecting
Yourself Online" (HarperCollins) in conjunction with the
Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
He was the co-founder and producer of the seminal CyberArts International Conferences and Festivals, producer
of the Digital Be-In and many other
unique events in the art/technology realm.
Gelman has served as a judge for the Global
Information Infrastructure Awards, and was named a "Seybold
Fellow" by the Seybold Conference and
Publishing organization. He also serves in a similar capacity,
as a consultant to other professional event producers. He is a member
of the advisory boards of YLEM, the association for art and technology; Computers &
You, the inner-city learning center for the underprivileged; and
was instrumental in the establishment of The
Northwest Cyberartists (Seattle).
He has
been an activist on the Internet for over ten years, and an early
developer of communities on the Net. More recently, he has been responsible
for developing communities of affinity on America Online and the Worldwide
Web, in conjunction with well-known entertainment industry personalities
and members of the International Interactive Communications Society
(IICS), ACM SIGGRAPH, and others.
His educational background includes four years at California State
University, Northridge and additional studies at UCLA, majoring in
Business Administration, minoring in Music.
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2002 and beyond, BGA
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