New Media Studio

email: bruce at tnms.org
Bruce is the founder and current executive director of the New Media Studio and the New Media Research Institute in Santa Barbara. He is a PI on an NIH project; working with the Mayo Clinic to bring medical scanning visualization tools into the classroom. He is the project manager for DigitalOcean, an emerging social networking/social media software platform for science. He is also the project director on Sampling the Sea, a MacArthur Foundation funded Digital Media and Learning effort based at UC Santa Barbara. He is leading a public awareness action in Santa Barbara, lightblueline.org, which proposes to paint the seven-meter elevation contour on that city's streets, to mark the vulnerability the community faces due to human induced climate change. He was the PI on a NASA ACCESS project, the Data and Information Application Layer (DIAL), which used forefront technology to bridge between commercial off the shelf data access/visualization software and multimedia authoring software. In 2010 he was awarded the Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award from the ESIP Federation. He recently finished a novel, Junana, which outlines an alternative present, where the promise of educational gaming turns the world on its head as hundreds of millions of teenagers know more than their parents, teachers, and the marketplace.

Marty Landsfeld is the Studio's Technical Director