Jamie Wilkinson
NationalityAmerican
Known forprogramming, startups, Internet culture, digital art, net art
Notable workKnow Your Meme, VHX, Star Wars Uncut, Free Art and Technology Lab

Jamie Wilkinson is an internet culture researcher and software engineer. Wilkinson started Know Your Meme, a database of viral internet memes whilst working at Rocketboom in New York City. Wilkinson also co-founded VHX, a digital distribution platform targeting independent filmmakers, which was acquired by Vimeo in May 2016.[1]

Career

Jamie is a virtual research fellow of the Free Art and Technology Lab. His work was featured in F.A.T. Gold: Five Years of Free Art & Technology, a retrospective of F.A.T. Lab's work, at Eyebeam,[2] MU Eindhoven,[3] and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.[4] He also co-founded video sharing and payment platform VHX.[5] Wilkinson was Eyebeam's systems administrator in 2006.[6]

In August, 2010 Jamie won an Emmy for "Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction"[7] for his work in collaborating with Casey Pugh, Annelise Pruitt and Chad Pugh on Star Wars Uncut, a web-based platform and community where users can recreate their favorite scenes from Star Wars.

In addition to his online video work, Wilkinson taught an “Internet Famous” class at Parsons graduate Design & Technology Program that examined internet attention, specifically how it could be manipulated and aggregated via different strategies.[8] Students’ grades were determined solely based on their ability to garner online attention in the form of web page views, video views, Twitter followers, and “favorites.”[9]

References

  1. ↑ Spangler, Todd (2016-05-02). "Vimeo Acquires VHX, Bolstering Subscription VOD Tools". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  2. ↑ "F.A.T. GOLD". Eyebeam. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  3. ↑ "MU | F.A.T. GOLD Europe". www.mu.nl. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  4. ↑ "F.A.T. GOLD: San Francisco". Gray Area Art & Technology. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  5. ↑ "BITS; A Festival Of Creativity". 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
  6. ↑ "Jamie Wilkinson | eyebeam.org". www.eyebeam.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  7. ↑ "2010 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations". 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
  8. ↑ Bennet, Jessica (2009-08-12). "Get Famous! Right Now! Do It Online!". Newsweek magazine. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
  9. ↑ Snyder, S. James (2007-12-20). "Googling for Your Grade". Time Magazine. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved 2010-07-13.


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