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David H. Katzive

David H. Katzive
President, Visual Technology Group

Since 1987 he has created over 480 news features, internationally-distributed commercials and public service announcements, as well as 21 documentary features. He has also produced more than 150 hours of live events with large-scale media components ranging from satellite news feeds to interactive television to Internet multicasts.

For three years Katzive worked at WGBH Boston hosting local broadcasts and developing program concepts under special grants for NOVA and Frontline through Creative Television Associates. As Vice Director at the Brooklyn Museum and head of Education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Katzive produced broadcast features on Lou Kahn, Graffiti, The Arensberg Collections, an introduction to Haiti, Voodoo, The Life of Buffalo Bill, and 23 other topics. He has designed and staged over 80 exhibitions for museums, trade shows and a world's fair (New Orleans, 1984).

For seven years, Katzive was an adjunct Associate Professor at New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he taught a seminar on the topic of Art and Technology to fledgling producers, artists, and engineers. Katzive was an undergraduate physics major at Brown University before switching to fine arts. He has a masters degree in the history of art from the University of Chicago.

 

 
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