Judson Rosebush
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Judson Rosebush is a director and producer of multimedia products and computer animation, an author, artist and media theorist. He was born October 1, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from the College of Wooster in 1969 and received a Ph.D. from Syracuse University 1984. He has worked in radio and TV, film and video, sound, print, and hypermedia, including CD-ROM and the Internet.
Rosebush is the co-author (with Issac Kerlow) of Computer Graphics for Designers and Artists, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1986 and 1994; (with Steve Cunningham) of Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM, O'Reilly, 1996; and (with Lynn Pocock) of The Technical Guide to Computer Animation, Morgan Kaufman, 2004. Rosebush is the former editor of Pixel Vision magazine, the serialized Pixel Handbook, and a columnist for CD-ROM Professional magazine. His most cited writings include "The Proceduralist Manifesto," a statement on computer art published in Leonardo; he is also known for his writings on computer graphics and new media. More popular credits include articles in The Village Voice and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Rosebush completed his first computer animations in 1970 and founded Digital Effects Inc. in New York (1978-1985). Digital Effects was the first 3D digital computer animation company in New York and built its own software. Television credits include directing over 1000 commercials and logos for advertising agencies and networks worldwide; feature films credits include Walt Disney's Tron. In the early 1990s, Rosebush co-authored and directed television programs on Volume Visualization and HDTV and the Quest for Virtual Reality. He participated on FCC working groups on HDTV. In the late 1990s he was drafted to collected and write histories about computer graphics, including the feature movie, The Story of Computer Graphics.
The Judson Rosebush Company, founded in 1986 and located in Carnegie Hall, has produced almost a dozens consumer CD-ROMs, business-to-business CD-ROMs and websites. Published CDs directed by Rosebush include Isaac Asimov's The Ultimate Robot, published by Byron Preiss and Microsoft, 1993; Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House, Microsoft, 1994; Ocean Voyager, 1995; The War in Vietnam, a joint venture between CBS News and The New York Times, distributed by MacMillan Digital, 1996; Look What I See, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996 and 2000; and Landmines: Clearing the Way, Rockefeller Foundation and the Departments of State and Defense, 2002. Other multimedia projects include directing The American Century, that showcased "super high-definition television" for the Whitney Museum. Other publishing includes the Rosebush Company/Wildside Press clipart library.
Rosebush has exhibited computer-generated drawings and films in numerous museum shows, and the drawings have been reproduced in hundreds of magazines and books. He has been an ACM National Lecturer since the late 1980s and a recipient of its Distinguished Speaker Award. He is skilled at computer programming and system design as well as in the graphic arts. He is a consultant for media technology companies in America, Europe, and Brazil. He assisted Hammond Map in designing their digital mapping system, worked with Oxberry Corporation to install the first digital motion picture scanners in New York and Beijing, and has performed expert witness work in Federal Court. He has also taught courses in computer graphics at the School of Visual Arts, New York; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; and Mercy College, White Plains, New York.
