Digital changes everything. Yet simply being first to act is not enough to realize success. You need a solid grasp of the implications and permutations to transform your work and keep pace with the ferocious rate of change. Old models are constantly in flux. Today's paradigm is tomorrow's cliché. The digital world is never static. Neither are we.

in order to understand it, you must be a practitioner

This is part of what differentiates nostatic from the rest. Research and practice. Praxis. We don't just think about digital media - we create, recreate, participate, remix, and contribute. This is how we develop and continually adapt our insight.

I'm Todd Richmond - the heart of nostatic. I earned a Ph.D. from Caltech, working at the forefront of protein engineering as a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, and faculty at the Claremont Colleges. I moved into the digital realm via chemistry but soon found that the shift reverberated far beyond traditional science. In the late 90's I was using online tools and capabilities in my courses and research and training other faculty in digital audio and video.

facts are easy to find, knowledge is hard to generate

I moved to USC in 2000, eventually running the Annenberg Center for Communication, a new media research center. As an early evangelist for social software in academic environments I worked on a number of "disruptive technologies" including backchannel, blogs, and wikis. In 2006 I moved to the USC Institute for Creative Technologies where I continue to lead projects in interactive/immersive education and training involving games, simulations, and a variety of "new" and "old" media.

you don't think about an answer, you create a solution with your head, heart and hands

I'm also an artist, writer, and musician. But my main pursuit in life is engaging intriguing questions and finding creative solutions. I have worked with a wide variety of government, private, and educational institutions. I'm searching for interesting projects that cross disciplines and require approaches that challenge convention. Are you?

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