Master of Digital Media
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Technologies. Multimedia Design.
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Jack Davis
Creative Technologist and Multimedia Designer Toronto, Ontario
jackdavis1014@gmail.com | LinkedIn: jackdavis1014 | Behance: jack-davis |
Career Summary
Creative Professional with experience in graphic design, creative direction, and multimedia production. Skilled in leveraging technology to craft compelling narratives and branding. Passionate about design, media theory, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and immersive and interactive new-media, with a focus on the deepening connection between technology, culture, art, and people.
Work Experience
Creative Technologist
Freelance. Toronto, Ontario 2021 - Present
- Collaborated with clients to design commissioned multimedia works, ensuring alignment with their creative direction.
- Lead sound designer, on Body (in) Parts by Galit Ariel (Ongoing) (Research Fellow, YorkU).
- Integrated hardware and software systems to install large-scale performance and exhibitions.
- Fabricator and audio-visual network engineer, on Beautiful Scars by Tom Wilson (2022).
- Liaised with clients, collaborators, distributors, and event staff, to ensure efficient execution of project goals.
- Planned, fabricated, promoted and facilitated personal interactive exhibit, Starlit Autochrome (2022).
Media Design Lead
Tydan Performance Blades. Dundas, Ontario 2022 - 2024
- Led content creation efforts, ensuring cohesive branding across graphic design, short-form video, social media, and website design.
- Reestablished multiple brands’ social media presence, ensuring consistent and professional tone and aesthetic.
- Within 2 months, extended rebrand to over two million viewers through short-form video across social media platforms.
- Developed, organised, and executed a unified content and advertising strategy.
- Increased audience reach and interaction by 6000% in two months.
- Content strategy yielded 5500 new followers across social media platforms within 4 months.
Multimedia Design Specialist
McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario 2022
- Integrated software and hardware systems to create effective networked audio-video systems.
- Led efforts to design and implement a 14-point sound system within The Black Box Theatre.
- Recalibrated and streamlined audio-video network within the McMaster University Concert Hall.
- Led walkthroughs of emergent technology for clients and staff.
- Planned, organised, fabricated, and facilitated live events.
- Refined communication and knowledge transfer skills by coordinating between staff, students, and clients to produce projects from concept to completion.
Education
Master of Digital Media. Toronto Metropolitan University. Toronto, Ontario. 2023-2024
- Founded the Dust Armour Collective: a collaborative new-media project, exploring the themes of postmodern media theory through the practice of interactive, immersive, and performance arts.
- Completed Obscured Materiality: an Aesthetic Outlook, a thesis paper expanding upon established literature to define trends in online culture, emergent technology, and digital art. Expanded upon research from undergraduate degree to further explore theoretical frameworks regarding physicality and digital media.
- Member of the TMU Library Collaboratory.
- Configured hardware systems for the purpose of educating post-graduate students in trending topics regarding interactive art.
- Member of the Design and Technology Laboratory.
- Developed an advanced skill set required for laser-cut fabrication practices.
BA (Hon) Multimedia and Communication Studies, McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario. 2017-2022
- Developed thesis project, Starlit Autochrome, an interactive audio-visual art installation exploring the ramifications of digital permanence within modern society. Extensive research was conducted regarding the emerging trends of physical installations for digital art.
- Obtained Dante Level 3 certification.
Skills
Proficient in: TouchDesginer, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Suite, Dante AVB, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Processing 4, Canva, Davinci Resolve, Figma, front-end web design, Generative AI, Salesforce, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), art direction, social media management, audio-visual systems.