V. Owen Bush

Bush was born in Quebec, Canada. He was named "Vishwanath" upon his birth by Neem Karoli Baba, a renowned Hindu saint. Bush spent his young childhood with his parents in the communal home of David McClelland in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he met intellectuals including Octavio Paz, Chögyam Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg and Buckminster Fuller. Bush's three godparents are Daniel Goleman, Larry Brilliant and Ram Dass.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

Bush attended high school at Concord Academy. In 1995 he graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film and Television.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

As a producer at the innovative Pseudo.com,[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/style/listen-up-talk-radio-this-is-the-internet-speaking.html?scp=16&sq=pseudo.com&st=nyt Listen Up, Talk Radio, This Is the Internet Speaking, The New York Times] Bush created some of the first webcasts and viral videos of the early web in 1995 and 1996. Described in The New York Times as "the Warhol Factory of 1995",[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/08/style/where-silicon-alley-artists-go-to-download.html?scp=4&sq=pseudo+programs&st=nyt Where Silicon Alley Artists Go to Download, The New York Times] Pseudo established itself as the creative icon of New York's Silicon Alley[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/nyregion/silicon-alley-journal-dot-coms-are-dead-long-live-dot-com-parties.html?scp=18&sq=pseudo.com&st=nyt Silicon Alley Journal; Dot-Coms Are Dead, Long Live Dot-Com Parties, The New York Times] with a series of live events and social experiments that either Bush produced or collaborated on. Bush and his work at Pseudo is extensively profiled in "Totally Wired: on the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle". Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|978-1-84737-449-3}}. Significant collaborations at Pseudo included the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Rev Billy, Josh Harris, EBN, Marc Scarpa, DJ Spooky, and many others.

In 1996 Bush left Pseudo to help launch Amp on MTV, a weekly broadcast TV series of electronic music videos[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/arts/television-the-music-channels-retool-singing-different-tunes.html?scp=2&sq=mtv%20amp&st=nyt&pagewanted=1 TELEVISION; The Music Channels Retool, Singing Different Tunes, The New York Times] with millions of international viewers. Amp introduced much of the US and global audiences to electronic music and VJ culture, it was described by The New York Times as "a kaleidoscope of computer animation, experimental photography and minimalism that looks more like the offerings of an underground film festival than those of a music network. Like the handiwork of a club disk jockey, many of the videos -- some as long as 12 minutes -- are blended together, fading into one another on similar images or sounds".[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/style/a-new-spacey-look-for-mtv.html?scp=1&sq=mtv+amp&st=nyt A New, Spacey Look For MTV, The New York Times] As Amp{{'s}} associate producer, Bush created much of its programming and packaging.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/11/arts/mtv-grows-up-well-a-little.html?scp=3&sq=mtv+amp&st=nyt MTV Grows Up. Well, A Little, The New York Times]

From 1994-2000, Bush was a principal player in the Omnisensorialist and Immersionist art movements which bridged the NY art boom of the 1980s to the dot-com boom of the 1990s. Bush participated in, designed and produced many multi-sensorial pop-up events largely in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan, often in collaboration with ambient or illbient musicians and DJs.{{cite news|author=NEIL STRAUSSPublished: March 08, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/arts/at-the-clubs-murmurs-and-ambient-music.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=At the Clubs, Murmurs and Ambient Music - New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=1996-03-08 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Throughout this period Bush collaborated with hundreds of artists and entertainers in groups such as Vapor Action, Floating Point Unit, Soundlab, Ongolia, Ovni, Fakeshop, Unity Gain, and Artificial TV.

Bush was an early innovator of the "VJ" medium, starting out with live camera, VHS tape and low resolution digital video. Over the years he has innovated and developed the medium, collaborating with the software design company Vidvox LLC, to develop visual performance tools. As a live video artist and VJ, Bush has toured with musicians, DJs and performing artists across the US, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Norway, England, Italy, France, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Croatia and Switzerland. He has performed at festivals such as Ultra Miami, EDC NY, Sun City Music Festival, Digital Dreams, Dreamhack and many others. Artists he has performed with include: Animal Collective,{{cite web|last=Museum |first=American |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/amnh/4270146332/in/set-72157623198114558/ |title=One Step Beyond - January 8, 2010 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! |publisher=Flickr |date= 9 January 2010|access-date=2012-09-18}} Dan Deacon,{{cite web|author=Like |url=http://vimeo.com/24252020 |title=Dan Deacon at One Step Beyond on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=2011-05-25 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Dirty Projectors,{{cite web|last=Pictures |first=Glowing |url=http://vimeo.com/36803354 |title=Dirty Projectors with Glowing Pictures on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=2012-02-14 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Flying Lotus,{{cite web|last=Koh |first=Douglas |url=http://vimeo.com/4279160 |title=One Step Beyond (Flying Lotus/Kode 9) @ American Museum of Natural History on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=2009-04-22 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Four Tet,{{cite web|last=Richter |first=Aaron |url=http://vimeo.com/3644906 |title=Four Tet @ The American Museum of Natural History on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=2009-03-14 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Grace Jones,{{cite news|author=MONIQUE P. YAZIGIPublished: January 26, 1997 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/26/nyregion/gate-shuts-life-the-club-begins.html |title=Gate Shuts, Life (the Club) Begins - New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=1997-01-26 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,Hip Hop Honors#2nd VH1 Hip Hop Honors Honorees .282005.29 JG Thirlwell, Tiesto, Q-Tip, James Blake, Questlove, Adam Beyer, Chris Liebing, Krewella, Carnage, Anamanaguchi, Kanye West,{{cite web|author=Like |url=http://vimeo.com/638650 |title=Kanye West @ Flavorpill.com's "One Step Beyond" on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=2008-01-26 |access-date=2012-09-18}} Laidback Luke, LL Cool J, Moby,{{cite web|author=07Jun09 |url=http://earplugsarethenewcondoms.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/moby-treats-nyc-to-a-rare-dj-set-and-gives-a-bangin-lesson-in-classic-breaks-at-one-step-beyond-6509/ |title=Moby Treats NYC to a Rare DJ Set and Gives a Bangin' Lesson in Classic Breaks at One Step Beyond, 6/5/09 « Earplugs are the New Condoms |publisher=Earplugsarethenewcondoms.wordpress.com |date= 8 June 2009|access-date=2012-09-18}} Paul Oakenfold{{cite web|url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=8322|title=RA News: Paul Oakenfold spins live on MySpace|work=Resident Advisor}} and many others.

In 1999, Bush was a lead producer of Josh Harris' Quiet! event, where over 100 people lived, ate, and slept together under constant video surveillance for one month before the event was shut down by the New York City Police Department, New York City Fire Department and Federal Emergency Management Agency on New Year's Day 2000. Bush and Gabrielle Latessa produced "Full", the dining experience which provided banquet breakfasts, lunches and dinners at no cost, to the temporary society of "podwellian dwellers" who were 24-hour residents of the Quiet! capsule hotel. Bush and his work on the Quiet! event are documented in the film, "We Live in Public",[https://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/movies/28live.html?scp=6&sq=we+live+in+public+josh+harris&st=nyt Dargis, Manohla, Embracing Life Under Scrutiny, Before the Dawn of Nonstop Tweets, The New York Times][https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/movies/26josh.html?scp=8&sq=we+live+in+public+josh+harris&st=nyt Sundance Toasts an Early Online Life, The New York Times] the winner of 2009 Sundance grand jury prize for best documentary.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/fashion/30harris.html?scp=9&sq=we+live+in+public+josh+harris&st=nyt For Him, the Web Was No Safety Net, The New York Times][https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/nyregion/dot-com-executive-once-a-conjurer-of-silicon-alley-razzmatazz-logs-off.html?scp=1&sq=quiet+josh+harris&st=nyt Dot-Com Executive, Once a Conjurer of Silicon Alley Razzmatazz, Logs Off, The New York Times][https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/movies/26arts-SUNDANCEWINN_BRF.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=we+live+in+public+josh+harris&st=nyt&gwh=5F6F4D0291368C08792D1980889985F4 Sundance Winners, The New York Times]

Since 1997, Bush has developed broadcast television promos for NBC, MTV, VH1, PBS, Nickelodeon, Discovery, NY1, Showtime, History and others as a freelance broadcast designer.

In 2001, Bush helped create the curriculum for the world's first master's degree in broadcast design as an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design.

From 2000–2006, Bush was associate producer and associate editor of Journey into Buddhism, a 4.5 hour series set in Southeast Asia and Tibet, directed by his father John Bush. Among the museums who have presented the documentary trilogy are the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Australia, the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Asia Society in New York. In 2011, Journey Into Buddhism was broadcast across the USA on over 150 PBS stations,{{cite web|url=http://vajra-sky.com/pbs/trailer.html |title=Vajra Sky Over Tibet : Direct Pictures |publisher=Vajra-sky.com |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} presented by WGBH Boston and American Public Television.{{cite web|url=http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vLinkTitle/JOURNEY%20INTO%20BUDDHISM%20DHARMA%20RIVER?OpenDocument&SearchText=journey+into+buddhism |title=Journey Into Buddhism: Dharma River |publisher=Aptonline.org |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} The trilogy is distributed by PBS for home video{{cite web|title=Journey into Buddhism 3PK DVD|url=http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=2872548&cp=&sr=1&kw=journey+into+buddhism&origkw=journey+into+buddhism&parentPage=search#prheader-2872548|work=Shop PBS|access-date=15 January 2013}} The third film, Vajra Sky Over Tibet, was endorsed{{cite web|url=http://vajra-sky.com/pbs/endorsement.html |title=Vajra Sky Over Tibet : Direct Pictures |publisher=Vajra-sky.com |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} by the Dalai Lama, called “an illuminating meditation”{{cite web|last=Kuipers |first=Richard |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117929819?refcatid=31 |title=Variety Reviews - Vajra Sky Over Tibet - Film Reviews - Bangkok - Review by Richard Kuipers |publisher=Variety.com |date=2006-03-03 |access-date=2012-09-18}} by Variety, “astonishingly lovely”{{cite web|url=http://articles.boston.com/2006-08-18/news/29243243_1_jokhang-templeshigatse-lhasa |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707230318/http://articles.boston.com/2006-08-18/news/29243243_1_jokhang-templeshigatse-lhasa |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |title=A lovely travelogue with a dark side - Boston.com |publisher=Articles.boston.com |date=2006-08-18 |access-date=2012-09-18}} by the Boston Globe and “best documentary of the year”{{cite web|url=https://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/9412/ |title=Vajra Sky Over Tibet |publisher=Film Threat |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} by Film Threat.

In 2003, Bush was the editor and composite artist of SonicVision, the full-dome visual music show developed for New York's Hayden Planetarium with a soundtrack mixed by Moby.[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/a-light-show-beyond-lasers.html?scp=5&sq=sonicvision&st=nyt Marriott, Michel, A Light Show Beyond Lasers, The New York Times ] Reviewed in The New York Times as "shorter than a concert but far longer than a thrill ride... it's a half-hour devoted to rapture, as both a sensory overload and a spiritual ideal".[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/movies/rock-review-a-spacey-half-hour-at-the-planetarium.html?scp=1&sq=sonicvision&st=nyt Pareles, Jon, ROCK REVIEW; A Spacey Half-Hour at the Planetarium, The New York Times ] For over eight years, SonicVision was a cultural staple and tourist attraction in New York and many other cities around the world.[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/movies/reverberations-rock-with-dazzling-light-designs-shades-of-the-60-s.html?scp=2&sq=sonicvision&st=nyt, Rockwell, John, REVERBERATIONS; Rock With Dazzling Light Designs: Shades of the 60's, The New York Times ]

Since 2003, Bush has directed the Molecularium Project,{{cite web|url=http://www.molecularium.com/ |title=The Molecularium Project |publisher=Molecularium.com |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} realizing the vision of 3 executive scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the co-writer and director of "Molecularium - Riding Snowflakes", a fulldome digital planetarium show funded by the National Science Foundation.{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/now_showing/more/molecularium.jsp |title=US NSF - Now Showing: Molecularium |publisher=Nsf.gov |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} "Molecularium - Riding Snowflakes" reinvents the dome venue, using character-based animation to take audiences into the nano-scale world of atoms and molecules. In September 2009, "Molecules to the MAX! 3D"{{cite web|title=V. Owen Bush|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1095588/|work=IMDb|access-date=15 January 2013}} opened for IMAX3D, IMAX Dome, and Giant-Screen film theaters. Bush is the director and co-writer of this animated large-format feature, and the president of its production company, Nanotoon Entertainment. Bush managed a team of over 150 skilled professionals, scientists, engineers and students in an unprecedented collaboration between creatives and educators. "Molecules" presents accurate molecular simulations in an immersive ultra high-definition format.{{cite web|url=http://www.rpi.edu/magazine/march2009/stealth_education.html |title=Rensselaer Magazine March 2009 - "Stealth Education" |publisher=Rpi.edu |date= |access-date=2012-09-18}} "Molecules" and "Molecularium" have been versioned in seven languages and are in growing distribution to theaters, planetariums and museums worldwide. Bush is the co-producer, co-writer and director of "Nanospace" a virtual theme park of atoms and molecules, that launched in 2012 as an online hub for the Molecularium Project. Nanospace ignites learning in young minds through video-games, interactive activities, and short movies.{{cite journal|author=Nature |title=Science funding: Science for the masses : Nature News |journal=Nature |publisher=Nature.com |date= May 2010|volume=465 |issue=7297 |pages=416–418 |doi=10.1038/465416a |pmid=20505707 |s2cid=4321245 |doi-access=free }}

In 2010 Bush produced, directed and edited Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember. The short film is a 40th anniversary companion piece to Ram Dass' spiritual classic Be Here Now.{{cite book|url=https://books.apple.com/au/book/be-here-now-enhanced-edition/id399819047 |title=iTunes - Books - Be Here Now (Enhanced Edition) by Ram Dass |publisher=iTunes |date=2010-11-02 |access-date=2012-09-18}} The film examines ego, awareness, truth and love as Ram Dass revisits his personal voyage of transformation. The film is distributed by HarperCollins Publishers in a trans-media strategy for the iPad and iPhone.

In 2004, Bush co-founded Glowing Pictures{{cite web|title=We tells stories and create experiences|url=http://glowingpictures.com/We-tell-stories-and-create-experiences-1|work=Glowing Pictures|access-date=15 January 2013}} with Benton C Bainbridge. Glowing Pictures' work includes televised concerts, music videos, commercials, multimedia operas, and immersive visual environments. Glowing Pictures' is a Visual Experience company that collaborates with cultural institutions, performing artists and brands to create Immersive Wonder. Their work includes televised concerts, music videos, commercials, immersive experiences, brand activations and visual performances. Glowing Pictures' clients include Google, Twitter, MySpace, MTV, Vh1, Gawker, WIRED, American Museum of Natural History, New York Hall of Science, Tao Group, The Creators Project, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Dubspot, Beastie Boys, TV on the Radio, Canon, Flavorpill, AM Only, Paramount Pictures, YoungArts, Beatport, The New Museum, The New York Hall of Science The Cooper Hewitt Museum, and many others. Glowing Pictures has executed two large scale visual spectacles in Xi'an, China,{{cite web|title=Surpass at da Ming Palace|url=http://glowingpictures.com/Surpass-at-Da-Ming-Palace|work=Glowing Pictures|access-date=15 January 2013}}{{cite web|title=The Water Stage|url=http://glowingpictures.com/The-Water-Stage|work=Glowing Pictures|access-date=15 January 2013}} and a two-hour epic audiovisual performance at Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|title=Leave No Story Untold|url=http://glowingpictures.com/Leave-No-Story-Untold|work=Glowing Pictures|access-date=15 January 2013}} Glowing Pictures created the visual and projections design for Kaki King's "The Neck is a Bridge to the Body" tour which features a Projection Mapped guitar. Glowing Pictures contributed to the creative campaign for Google's Bay Area Challenge, projection mapping over 30 buildings and surfaces all over the Bay Area over 3 nights. Glowing Pictures' "The Future Starts Now" is an original 12 minute audiovisual immersive experience commissioned by Hartford CT's Mandell JCC to celebrate their 100th anniversary. Glowing Pictures created and teaches the Dubspot Visual Performance Program - a course in live audiovisual performance at New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.dubspot.com/visual-performance/|title=Visual Performance - Dubspot|work=dubspot.com}} Glowing Pictures are the resident visual designers of "One Step Beyond",{{cite news|last=McElroy|first=Steven|title=Dancing With the Meteorites|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/fashion/23boite.html?_r=1|access-date=15 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 May 2010}}{{cite news|last=Barron|first=James|title=Staying Up Late at Museums|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/museums-brave-new-turf-after-hours.html?_r=0|access-date=15 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 October 2011}} a monthly live event at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space that is in its tenth year of largely sold-out shows.

Bush co-founded daydream.io{{cite web |title=Daydream |url=http://daydream.io/}} in 2015. It began as a music-powered mobile VR app that generated immersive visuals from your phone music library.{{cite journal |title=Bizjournals |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/morning_call/2015/09/why-these-silicon-alley-entrepreneurs-are-bringing.html}} In May 2016 daydream.io changed its name to SpaceoutVR after Google paid the company $850,000 for the trademarked intellectual property.{{cite journal |title=Bizjournals |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2017/05/16/why-google-paid-this-downtowntroy-tech-startup.html}} Google later released its own virtual reality platform called Daydream.{{cite web |url=https://arvr.google.com/daydream/|title=Daydream}} The spaceoutVR app offered 360 video, music, games, and a "social space colony" that generated personified spaces based on deep learning analysis of your social graph.{{cite journal |title=Bizjournals |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2016/09/19/troy-startups-app-takes-facebook-photos-off-screen.html}} In April 2018 the company was acquired by ValueSetters Inc., a Boston public company.{{cite journal |title=Bizjournals |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2018/05/21/troy-virtual-reality-startup-acquired-by-boston.html}}

In January 2018 Bush co-founded Hudson Virtual Tours with Chase Pierson, a company focused on 3D Mapping of properties and spaces.{{cite news |title=Troyrecord |url=https://www.troyrecord.com/news/collar-city-landmarks-can-be-toured-online/article_500f8f22-0003-5037-b086-8a2f70f984e5.html}} HVT has captured over 1,000 buildings for hundreds of customers. HVT focuses on historic and cultural 3D Tours of Upstate New York with examples such as the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society, The Cathedral of All Saints, The Van Ostrande-Radliff House in Albany.{{cite news |title=Timesunion |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Capturing-Gothic-cathedral-in-360-degree-3-13556177.php}} [8]{{cite web |url=https://hvmag.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/hudson-reality-capture-virtual-tours/|title=Virtually Tour the Hudson Valley's Hottest Historic Sites Right Here|date=5 May 2020}}

In April 2020 Pierson & Bush co-founded Scan2Plan based upon measurement and modeling projects they were doing in the AEC industry.{{cite journal |title=Bizjournals |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2020/09/23/hudson-virtual-tours-3d-modeling-trend.html}} Scan2Plan is a rapidly growing "existing conditions" service based in Troy, NY & Saugerties, NY. Scan2Plan uses LiDAR, UAV and GIS technologies to create architectural digital twins with extreme accuracy.{{cite web |title=Scan2Plan® |url=https://www.scan2plan.io/}}

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