karmafia

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Joel Flynn is a multimedia researcher and an obsessive creative who has been playing at the fringes of live concerts, digital video, networked collaboration, and curriculum design for many years. As a digital media artist, Flynn has operated under the pseudonym “the karmafia”, authoring numerous experimental concert recordings with a twist of tongue-in-trigue mystery. As a nod to avant garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov* - the original "Man with a Movie Camera" - Flynn would eventually publish two extensive masters projects around these digital video experiments - a Master of Applied Science in Interactive Arts and Technology in 2006 as well as a Management of Technology MBA in 2010 - both while at Simon Fraser University. Flynn’s work steals an academic page from Marshall McLuhan, then rams it through Hunter S. Thompson’s journalistic sensibilities, and doesn’t try “to make a distinction between education and entertainment” (as if he knows a thing or two about ether). He [is no longer heading] the social media research and development at SoKap Community Networks in Vancouver BC. a startup that is addressing the crowdfunding, marketing, and distribution needs of digital content producers through its unique micro-licensing model. Since 2010, he has been a contributor to TheMusicVoid.com (TMV), an online publication for industry perspectives on digital music and technology, covering number industry events in North America.