Holland Wilde - Bio

RESUME ....Holland Wilde now feeds Cultural Farming (video website) and Media Nipple (video blog) - two unique moving image sites (media ethnography) for critical visual-media communication discussion. An American living in Canada, he is a PhD candidate in media communication and culture in the Institute of Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Long-time owner-principal and architectural-graphic designer of the Boston-based design company Pencilogic; Wilde serviced a broad range of creative efforts for the advertising and entertainment industries, but primarily for broadcast television news (1988-2005). He has received numerous prestigious design awards including ten Emmys (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) and four Broadcast Designers Association Gold Awards. His work has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX, WB, ESPN, Telemundo, Encore, E! TV among many others. His news designs have been showcased globally in Argentina, Netherlands, and India, and in every major U.S. media market.

Holland Wilde served on the international Board of Directors for the Broadcast Designers Association (1995-2000), where he chaired several conference sessions engaging notables such as media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, author Bill McKibben, and film director Michael Moore. During this tenure Wilde also lectured extensively across Germany on issues of news design communication.

Wilde, trained as a Broadway stage designer, holds a Master of Fine Arts (Southern Methodist University, 1983) in scenery and costume design for theatre and was selected for portfolio review at The Julliard School by the League of Professional Theatre Training Schools (1983). Wilde also holds a Bachelor of Science in Arts and Media (Grand Valley State University, William James College, 1975) after which he studied art and stage design at the University of Sarajevo (1975). Wilde has designed over sixty stage productions, including collaboration on Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) and composer Elizabeth Swados' musical satire Rap Master Ronnie in Washington DC (1987).

Wilde has held faculty positions (Assistant Professor, Technical Director, Lecturer, Adjunct) at several universities including Wheaton College and Tufts University. More recently, Wilde has presented or screened new video work at numerous academic conferences and juried performances including the 5th Annual Visual Cultures Symposium, George Mason University (2008 Best Student Presentation); VisCom (2005-7 Robert Tiemens Award); Design Communication Association (2007); International Visual Sociology Association, New York University (2007); Visual Communication: Rhetoric and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology (2006 and 2008); Music in the Dark 4, NYC (2006); and One Minute Film and Video Festival, Toronto (2006).

Holland Wilde was the only student invited to attend Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, City University London (2008); and the only North American student selected to attend the 2008 ISA International Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in Sociology and XI Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities at Moscow State University, Russia. Holland Wilde recently completed his first feature-length ethnographic video Cameras or Guns (2007), examining cable news’ presentation of the recent Virginia Tech shooting incident. Wilde was awarded the Grand Festival prize in Ethnography at the 2009 Berkeley Video and Film Festival.

Articulate and opinionated in both visual and media communication, Holland Wilde is highly regarded for his engaging and provocative educational presentations on several topics including: visual communication, broadcast media design, video blogging, ethics in image construction, and media literacy. He continues to publicly advocate for deeper understanding of visual literacy within image-based communications for a viable balance between visually corporatized media and participatory democracy. Currently, Wilde is deeply exploring ethnographic (surreal) video performance as vital opportunities to: inform and reform TV journalism; re-balance media power; 'inoculate' against insidious media persuasion; and to invigorate critical civic participation.

Wilde continues to be an accomplished back-country wilderness explorer, having solo-trekked a majority of North American national parks.

Holland Wilde

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Email: holland@culturalfarming.com

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“Holland is a helleva visual storyteller...I hope to be at his book signing – or should I say primetime TV series!"

• - Karen Vigurs-Stack, Principal, On the Spot Creative Services*

“Holland remains one of the most creative thinkers I know.”

• - Ian Hamilton, Former Global Director Sport Marketing, Nike*

“Holland’s newest video work transcends all he’s done in TV design. He intimately weaves narrative and theory into new forms of entertainment.”

• - Ann Marie Barry PhD, Associate Professor, Boston College*

“Holland is uniquely positioned to truly understand television news.”

• - John Lansing, President, Scripps Networks*

"Holland’s communication skills both written and verbal are laced with the same stylish panache that he exhibits in his visual designs – smart, elegant, perceptive. His writings reflect a genuine intellectual curiosity – a curiosity that is accompanied by his excitement and enthusiasm."

• - Neal Hirsig, Department of Multimedia, Tufts University*

“Holland is a leader, a friend, and a one-of-a-kind creative thinker.”

• - Pat Smith, President, Former VP Creative Director, Turner Networks -South*

“Holland is one crazy son-of-a-bitch – I love it.”

• - Noubar Stone, Senior Creative Director, ESPN.

“Holland’s new work is expansive, challenging new boundaries and paradigms. His arguments around media are compelling and insightful…magnifico!”

• - David Taras PhD, Professor, University of Calgary*

“Holland gets it. Television is his canvas.”

• - Blake Bryant, Former VP Creative Services, Buena Vista Television*

 “Holland’s energy, directness and ability to weave the story were simply wonderful.”

• - Joe Misiewicz PhD, Chair of TeleCommunications, Ball State University*

"I met the Media Nipple dude at the Beyond Broadcast Conference at Harvard, and I was completely refreshed. Holland's a kook and a crank and the perfect foil (and antidote) to all of the self-congratulatory intellectual masturbation of the sweethearts of the “blogosphere.”

• - Dee-Rob, "human"

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