Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain | |
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Filmmaker, author | |
Spouse | Ken Goldberg |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Leonard Shlain |
Website | tiffanyshlain |
Tiffany Shlain (born April 8, 1970)[1] is an American filmmaker, artist, and author. Described by the public radio program On Being as "an internet pioneer",[2] Shlain is the co-founder of the Webby Awards and the founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.[3]
Early life and education
In high school, Shlain co-wrote a proposal called Uniting Nations in Telecommunications & Software (UNITAS), which envisioned students all over the world communicating over personal computers and via modems before the advent of the web. From this proposal, she was invited to be a student ambassador through the People to People program, and traveled to the Soviet Union in 1988.[4][5]
While a student at UC Berkeley, Shlain produced and directed Hunter & Pandora, an experimental film which won the university's Eisner Award, the highest award in art. In 1992, she earned a BA in
Shlain studied organizational change at the Harvard Business School Executive Education program and film production at New York University's Sight & Sound program. She is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute (Class of 2007).[7][8]
Career
In 1996, Shlain co-founded the
In 2002, Shlain directed, produced and co-wrote Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a documentary about reproductive rights in America. The film premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival[15] and was used nationally by Planned Parenthood to mark the 30-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade.[16]
In 2005, Shlain sold the Webby Awards and founded the
In 2011, her first feature documentary,
In 2011, she introduced the concept of "Cloud Filmmaking" with a series of shorts produced through cloud-based collaborative filmmaking. The first film in the series, A Declaration of Interdependence, was released Sept 2011; the second film, Engage, debuted in early 2012.[24] Later that year, both a 10-minute film and a TED Book, called Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks were released.[25] Brain Power premiered in November 2012 at The California Academy of Sciences.[26] It was selected by the US State Department as a part of the 2013 American Film Showcase and was screened at embassies in the Middle East in November 2013.[27] Shlain discussed cloud filmmaking as the keynote speaker at the Tribeca Film Festival's 2013 Interactive Day where she delivered her "Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto."[28]
In 2013, Shlain co-founded the nonprofit Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change, and continued making cloud films. The next film in the series was The Science of Character. To premiere the film, Shlain and her co-workers founded
Shlain created two seasons of the AOL series The Future Starts Here,[30] which includes episodes entitled Technology Shabbats, Motherhood Remix, 10 Stages of The Creative Process,[31] The Future of Our Species, Why We Love Robots, co-directed with her husband Ken Goldberg, and A Case for Optimism.[32] The series, which began airing on AOL in 2013 was nominated for an Emmy Award in the News & Documentary for New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture in 2014, and has since been viewed more than 40 million times.[33]
Shlain "is often asked to comment about Web culture on television and lectures to groups in the U.S. and internationally", according to the Los Angeles Times,[34] and has spoken at TEDWomen and TEDMED.[35] She delivered the keynote address for UC Berkeley's commencement ceremony in May 2010;[35] the speech was included on NPR's list of "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever."[36]
Shlain directed a film on women and power that was released through Refinery29's "Shatterbox Anthology".[37] Released on October 27, 2016, it is called 50/50: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Women + Power, and explores the 10,000-year history of women. In addition, on May 10, 2017, in support of 50/50 Day: Gender Equality, 11,000 events took place around the world, all linked by the internet.[38] These gatherings of people screened the film,[39] listened to noteworthy activists and celebrities.[38][40]
In 2017, Shlain was chosen to contribute one of 100 essays about the future, included in the world’s first 3D printed book, Genius: 100 Visions of the Future, which was printed in the
In 2019, Shlain's book, 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection was published by Simon & Schuster.[42][43] In 2020, the book was awarded the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology.[44] In 2020, Shlain performed her spoken cinema show “Dear Human” at the Museum of Modern Art.[45][46][47][48]
In 2022, she exhibited her solo art show Human Nature, including her feminist history dendrochronology (tree ring) piece, Dendrofemonology.[49][47] The National Women's History Museum repeated the show in January 2023.[50][47][51]
Personal life
Shlain lives in
Shlain has a brother, Dr. Jordan Shlain; a sister, artist Kimberly Brooks; and brother-in-law, Albert Brooks. Her sister-in-law is Adele Goldberg. Following her father's death, Shlain and her siblings worked together to edit the manuscript of his final book, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius.[2][3][15]
Filmography
Year | Title | Credit |
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2021 | Pause[54] | Producer, host |
2021 | Dear Student[55] | Director |
2020 | Dear Voter[56] | Director |
2019 | Dear Parent[57] | Director |
2018 | Unstoppable[58] | Director |
2018 | Why I Pledge 5050 | Director, co-writer, editor |
2017 | 30,000 Days[59] | Director, co-writer, editor |
2016 | 50/50: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Women + Power | Director, co-writer, editor |
2015 | The Adaptable Mind | Director, co-writer, editor |
2015 | The Making of a Mensch[60] | Director, co-writer, editor |
2014 | The Future of Our Species | Director, co-writer |
2014 | Creative Bondage | Director, co-writer |
2014 | Parentechnology | Director, co-writer |
2014 | Transboom | Director, co-writer |
2014 | The Photosynthesis of Social Media | Director, co-writer |
2014 | Robots, Botox & Google Glass | Director, co-writer |
2014 | Punk Rock Diplomacy | Director, co-writer |
2014 | A Case for Dreaming | Director, co-writer |
2014 | The Science of Character | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Technology Shabbats | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Motherhood Remixed | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Tech Etiquette | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Why We Love Robots | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Participatory Revolution | Director, co-writer |
2013 | The Creative Process in 10 Acts | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Idea Porn | Director, co-writer |
2013 | A Case for Optimism | Director, co-writer |
2013 | The Future Starts Here' (series) | Director, co-writer |
2013 | Facing the Future | Director, co-writer |
2012 | Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks | Director, co-writer |
2012 | Engage | Director, co-writer |
2011 | Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology[61] | Director, producer, co-writer |
2011 | Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" | Director, co-writer |
2011 | A Declaration of Interdependence | Director, co-writer |
2006 | The Tribe | Director, producer, co-writer |
2003 | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness | Director, co-writer |
1992 | Hunter & Pandora[62] | Director, Writer |
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