Ravi Jain

Ravi Jain

Senior Associate Director, Digital Media and Web Development
Boston College
Speaker

Bio

Ravi Jain is a prolific multimedia storyteller, with over 25 years experience of implementing new technologies to engage audiences. A short form video evangelist, he has received numerous awards and recognition for his work, including a 2007 Webby Award nomination for his "talk-show in a car," DriveTime.

For the last seven years, Jain has devised multimedia solutions for clients served by Boston College's Office of Marketing Communications, including Boston College Magazine. One of his first products for the university was The Boston College Minute: 60-second fly on the wall documentaries that remain one of the most popular content offerings of the school. He manages a team of producers to develop custom multimedia experiences, including original features for @BC, the multimedia arm of Boston College Magazine.

Prior to his time at Boston College, Jain wrote and produced interactive content for the PBS series' American Experience, produced by WGBH in Boston. He served as the liaison between the film units and WGBH's in-house interactive staff in order to build out educational interactive features. Jain also served as field producer for many behind the scenes shoots, for both web and DVD platforms.

Jain's passion for non-linear, digital based experiences dates to the early 1990s when he created his own independent major of study at Oberlin College, combining film/video, computer science and studio art. After establishing his professional career as a designer in the Boston area, Jain moved to Stockholm, Sweden in the late 1990s to pursue opportunities in interactive multimedia design. He returned to the United States three years later to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design's Studio for Interrelated Media.

Since receiving his MFA, Jain has successfully balanced three roles: professional multimedia strategist, part-time university professor and practicing conceptual artist. Concurrent with his roles at WGBH and Boston College, he has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies Digital Media program. Jain teaches graduate level courses on different aspects of digital media and also acts as thesis advisor for students.

As an innovative artist, Ravi has showcased his work both as a solo artist and in a number of regional group shows. His 2002 interactive web sitcom Three Abreast anticipated "second screen" synchronized content in popular media and was a Web Award nominee at the 2003 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Most recently, Jain was one of the winners of the City of Boston's inaugural Fenway's 30 Second Cinema competition, producing a custom short form video optimized for an outdoor video screen adjacent to the Fenway Park baseball stadium.