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Mike

Mike Nutt

Website: http://wikumentary.net

Masters of Science in Information Science candidate

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brief Bio

Mike Nutt's tragic flaw is that he likes to remember things, but often has great difficulty doing so. At some point, however, he became enamored with the idea that he might be able to turn this flaw into a marketable skill set (or at least into some multimedia art), and is currently pursuing a Master's of Science in Information Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. His adversarial relationship with memory likely started when, at the age of 14, he discovered that trying to remember more than one Led Zeppelin chord progression at a time was fruitless, but recording layers of guitar onto a Tascam multitrack tape deck allowed for endless hours of awkward teenage experimentation. So began a lifetime of record-keeping and media-making: pictures, music, zines, audio documentaries, radio reporting, video, web projects and the like. At some later point, prompted by the vast amount of media he had collected and by the sale of his last musical instrument for grocery money, Mike became interested in how to organize personal media artifacts and in helping others make media about their lives. How could that media be organized into interactive collections, he wondered? Better yet, what kinds of tools could enable entire communities (of interest, of culture, of location) to tell their stories through collected and collective media? How would such tools help build social capital and could they be used for economic development? He explores these questions and more at wikumentary.net, and invites you to join him there.

Full bio

http://wikumentary.net/cv

Associated Centers

Associated Centers and Institutions

School of Information and Library Science (SILS)

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

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