His
commentaries air on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's All Things
Considered, and appear on the back page of
Time magazine. His monthly column on cyberculture is distributed
through the New York Times Syndicate and appears in over thirty
countries.
Rushkoff lectures about media, art, society, and
change at conferences and universities around the world. He hosts and
writes documentaries for PBS, Channel Four, and the BBC.
Rushkoff's award-winning Frontline documentary "The Merchants of Cool" was one of the most watched
and most talked about documentaries of the year.
He has served as an adjunct professor
of communications at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications
Program for the past six years, as an Advisor to the United Nations
Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the
Media Ecology Association, and as a founding member of Technorealism. He has been awarded Senior
Fellowships by the Markle Foundation and the Center for Global Communications
Fellow of the International University of Japan.
He regularly
appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Frontline to Larry King
and Politically Incorrect. Rushkoff writes for magazines and newspapers
including Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, GQ and The Silicon Alley
Reporter, and developed the Electronic Oracle software series for
HarperCollins Interactive.
Rushkoff is on the board of several
new media non-profits and companies, and regularly consults on new media
arts and ethics to museums, governments, and universities, as well as
Sony, TCI, advertising agencies, and other Fortune 500 companies.
Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University,
received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, a
post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute, and a
Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He is a certified stage fight choreographer, and plays blues piano and
baby guitar.
He lives with his wife, Barbara,
in Brooklyn. |
