Marc Scarpa is a veteran director and producer of live interactive media.
His most recent directing credits include, MySpace LIVE! a seven hour live
High definition transmission on MySpace that celebrated community through
individual expression. The transmission featured Linkin Park along with 10
additional artists on the Projekt Revolution 2007 tour and was viewed by
over 1 million people worldwide. A ground breaking first, mobile phones were
used by fans to capture content and mixed live into the HD broadcast. He has
also directed Grammy Award artist John Legend, Teddy Geiger, The Editors,
Joe Satriani, 50 Cent, Gogol Bordello, Jonas Brothers and The All American
Rejects for the LiveNation Verizon VCAST Mobile performance series.
During the early 90's he founded JumpCut, which recently sold to Yahoo! The
company pioneered live broadcast production over multiple distribution
channels. With development of media communities as it's focus, Marc emerged
as one of the top progressive media architects in the industry. He produced
and directed several "firsts" in the interactive programming genre
including, "Townhall with President Clinton" (now apart of the permanent
collection of the Clinton Presidential Library), Woodstock '99, The Tibetan
Freedom Festivals, Vans Warped Tours, "The Lola Pandora Show", "HSX/Excite
Rocks the Oscars" featuring Beck; along with numerous live music events for
artists such as the Beastie Boys, Elton John, Moby, Wyclef Jean, Primus and
Pat Metheny.
Marc is the architect for New York City Hall's Mayoral Blue Room
multi-platform broadcast facility. Which enables press conferences to be
distributed live over the web, TV and radio simultaneously and is in use
daily by Mayor Bloomberg.
Simulcast credits (web & TV) include, "The A&E Live By Request series",
"Backstage at the Tony Awards" and an "Online Prayer with the Dalai Lama"
Prior to founding JumpCut, he served as the New York Bureau Chief for C|NET
networks television where he Produced news segments for C|NET
programs"TV.COM", "The Web" and "C|NET Central". He also co-developed
C|NET's early video on demand deployment strategy and produced C|NET's
first live webcast from the floor of the 1997 PC Expo.
Marc is a featured speaker with Internet World, Streaming Media
East/West/Europe and Digital Hollywood where he serves as an Advisory board
member for the OnDemand Content & Technology Consortium. He is recognized as
one of Silicon Alley Reporters Top 100. Marc served as the founding Co-Chair
for NYC Mayor's Council on New Media with Deputy Mayor Tony Coles under the
Giuliani administration. Currently he is a national board member and
founding NY committee chair for the Producers Guild of America New Media
Council. Personally Marc is a partner with Lifebeat - The Music Industry
Fights AIDS. Scarpa received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1992
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Marc Scarpa
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