Barry Levine:  

Long, long ago in the last century, this Voyager populated the steam-engine dynamics of teenagership in near-southland Virginia. Cut loose to Charlottesville, he undertook guided flight through the Old South-becoming-Sixties U. of Va., an experience that included an almost entirely white male-only first year, deep excursions into literature, journalism and film, summers working for the Mayor's Office in Atlanta and a documentary film studio in Boston, and other exercises in life-tried-once adventures. He escaped, summa cum laude in hand, to Boston, where everyone is in their twenties, or so it seemed. He immediately founded CENTER SCREEN, which became a nationally recognized showcase of independent film, and which was based at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, where the films were shown, and an office at M.I.T. Over the next decade, following hundreds of film premieres, filmmaker appearances, tons of press clippings, and sold out audiences, Carpenter Center requested their theater back and he decided better to end CENTER SCREEN while ahead. Those times also included a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for his personal films and a five-year consultancy to the M.I.T. Media Lab. Then it was on to a year on staff at WGBH-TV, other TV/video stints, more personal filmmaking, and, in 1986, two big moves -- moving to New York, capital of all creativity, and focusing entirely on interactive media. (With a writing of the Power Klingon audio book for Simon & Schuster in between.) This was a decade before the Web, so our Voyager produced interactive videodisc and then, in 1989, came up with the idea for a new, interactive use of plain ol' CD audio players, then in vogue. He produced a Pilot, and sold the game ...Expand for more