Jeff Green (multimedia artist)

For other people named Jeff Green, see Jeff Green (disambiguation).
Jeff Green

Jeff Green at a radio production console
Born (1956-06-21) June 21, 1956
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation Multimedia artist
Citizenship Canada
Genre Speculative fiction, dystopian fiction, metaphysics, radio drama, children's television
Website
www.strangermedia.com

Jeffrey Stuart Green (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian author, playwright, producer, and director, who has worked in a variety of media including radio, television, computer, DVD-based multimedia, and in live nightclub settings.[1] His work has earned him critical acclaim[2][3] and a number of awards. In addition to the work he has created, he was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa market during the late 1970s and the 1980s — specifically, the Carleton University non-profit radio station CKCU-FM[4] and the commercial album-oriented rock radio station CHEZ-FM. Currently, he is working as a multimedia consultant and produces and hosts a bi-weekly overnight radio show on CKCU called Big In Japan.

Career

Jeff Green began his career in radio in 1972 at Carleton University's CKCU-FM, when it was only running with a carrier current license — "broadcasting" by closed circuit to the university commons areas, and through a transmitter in the residence building to the students there. He was one of the founding Production Managers when CKCU received its FM radio license in 1975. In 1976, he became the founding Production Manager at the Ottawa album-oriented[5] rock station CHEZ-FM. In 1980 he received a Canada Council Explorations grant to create the radio drama Epiphanies, intended as a pilot for a series that was never produced. In addition to his work in radio, he was editor for the now-defunct tabloid entertainment paper Ottawa Revue from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was Central and Eastern Canada’s first VJ, presenting groundbreaking video programming at Ottawa rock and roll venue Barrymore's before music video television was generally available in Canada (MTV had just launched and was only available by satellite television, which was relatively rare at the time). In Ottawa, from 1979 through 1983, Jeff Green designed and executed an annual series of popular[6] live club multimedia performances at Hallowe'en entitled "Ne'ewollah".[7]

In 1985 he began the series of radio dramas that became known as Soundings. Soundings went on to win several awards, including a silver medal at the New York International Radio Festival. Originally aired on Ottawa’s CHEZ-FM, episodes of the series were eventually broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and National Public Radio (U.S.) networks, as well as London's LBC Radio station. The radio plays were featured on XM Satellite Radio’s former Sonic Theater channel.

In 1990, Green began an association with members of Ottawa’s Salt & Pepper Theatre Company which resulted in the four-season Cowboy Who? television series, an all-ages satire of children’s programming for which he was co-creator, co-writer, producer, director, engineer, and performer. The series was broadcast from 1991 to 1995 on Mid-Canada Television, and won the 1992 Canpro Award (Canadian Independent Television Producer’s Association) for Best Children’s Series.

In 1993, he teamed up with the Animatics Multimedia Corporation, which resulted in the award-winning video-based interactive multimedia productions Midnight Stranger and Mode on which he acted as co-creator, writer, and director. These dramas were notable for their innovative user interface and "point of view" social interaction, and were hailed as being some of the finest productions available in their genre.[8] Currently, he is working as a multimedia consultant and produces and hosts a bi-weekly overnight radio show on CKCU called Big In Japan.

Works

Radio

Early radio plays

The Soundings series of radio plays

Progressive rock documentaries

Written and produced by Jeff Green (he produced numerous others):

Additional radio shows

Television

Multimedia

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Barrymore's Video Kid, Jeff Green, Is Dusting Off Some Unusual Footage". The Ottawa Citizen, May 18, 1983 — about an Elvis Presley video presentation.
  2. ↑ Crook, T. Radio Drama: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-415-21603-6
  3. ↑ "CHEZ Radio Play a Sci-Fi Romp". The Ottawa Citizen, January 18, 1986, p. C16 — about the first airing of Spaxter.
  4. ↑ "Radio Carleton Ready to Roll". The Ottawa Journal, November 13, 1975, p.33 — features a large photo of Jeff Green at production controls, wearing torn shirt and jeans, Sennheiser headphones held together with duct tape, and with WWII-era military anti-snowblindness slit goggles on his forehead.
  5. ↑ Radio Station History: CHEZ-FM
  6. ↑ "Ne'ewollaH Devotees Plan to Invade Barrymore's". The Ottawa Citizen, October 29, 1982 — about the "Trontastic Luminous Ne'ewollah" event.
  7. ↑ The backwards name derives from his having held multimedia rich Hallowe'en parties in his long and narrow apartment in the late 1970s. To get sufficient image size from the video projectors, he aimed them down a hallway and bounced them off a mirror, hence all images were backwards. Source: email from Jeff Green.
  8. ↑ e.g. Blackwell, G., "Take a Virtual Walk on the Wild Side". The Toronto Star, February 16, 1995.
  9. ↑ The script for the first episode of Azort Starbolt: Space Android was published in a compilation of radio source material for secondary school media courses:
    Schell, W. and Woollings, M. Reading, Writing and Radio. Longman Canada Ltd., 1977.
  10. ↑ "Lights! Camera! Ki-Ai! Aikido TV Series Shooting at RA". The RA News, December 1, 1984, p. 19.
  11. ↑ Science Fiction Audio Hall of Fame

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