The Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced “bay-vac”), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. Our continuing mission is to inspire social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology. Tips for using the BAVC website.

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Building Big Audiences & Generating Revenue in the Digital Age
December 1, 2009
(Special Events) Join author and CinemaTech editor Scott Kirsner for a special evening workshop on how filmmakers, musicians, and other creative artists can cultivate big audiences and earn a solid return from thei...

Innovation Salon VII: Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Interactive Mapping for Filmmakers
December 3, 2009
(Special Events) Innovations in interactive mapping have exploded recently: media artists all over the world are harnessing mobile platforms and geospatial technologies to tell stories in new ways. Visual analytics...

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by Alicia Schmidt, Marketing Strategist

BAVC is pleased to welcome Daniel Teixeira-Gomes as BAVC's new Director of Technology. As the Director of Tech, Dan will be responsible for our internal technical infrastructure as well as helping to provide vision and leadership around our future programming related to technology trends and innovations. Dan comes to BAVC after serving as the Chief Technical Officer at California Newsreel. Prior to that, Dan served in technical positions with the SF Art Institute and Film Arts Foundation. Not just a techie, Dan is also a filmmaker and has been part of the film community here in the Bay Area for several years.

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Innovations in interactive mapping have exploded recently: media artists all over the world are harnessing mobile platforms and geospatial technologies to tell stories in new ways. Visual analytics are more important than ever, and are being used to trace narrative arcs globally, to track audience participation, measure engagement, and assess the social impact of media. Documentary filmmakers are architecting new outreach models based in mapping code, semantic search functionality, and even computational linguistics.

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