Marc Herring
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Marc Herring is a Multimedia Artist
and the CEO-Executive Producer of Herring Media Group, an international communications, design and production agency. Marc's clients have included: Live Earth / Washington DC with Al Gore
, Yahoo! Inc
., The Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art, SFMOMA
, The Smithsonian Institution
, ILM / Lucas Digital Ltd., Lexus, RadioShack
, Procter & Gamble
and most major broadcast networks and international advertising agencies
. His work has been extensively covered by the international news media
and presented in museums and universities throughout the world.
Marc has collaborated with Mickey Hart
, Jerry Garcia
, R.E.M., and many other performing artists in the creation of live events and touring concerts. In 1993, in partnership with Gannett and FCB, he developed the first international system of Projection Media installations as part of an Out of Home advertising network
. Other pioneering achievements in the arts and advertising include producing the first television commercial
created on board the International Space Station
, organizing worldwide broadcast coverage of the reentry of the MIR space station
and temporarily illuminating vast landscapes with live, digital multimedia
projections. In March, 2008 Marc's environmental media installation for the Yahoo! Time Capsule
project was accepted by Smithsonian Folkways for future academic study.
Marc's current projects include the design and installation of high-rise Architectural Media™ installations in Times Square, international concert and broadcast production, and the development of cultural heritage
programs and commissions for advanced media installations. As part of FotoWeek DC, Marc annually designs and produces a heroic exhibition of projections called Night Gallery
DC. The program features the large scale display of photography and digital imagery curated from the collections of museums and photographers from around the world. Marc also staged environmental media works
for the re-opening of the National Museum of American History
and the debut of the Illuminated Oculus at the National Museum of the American Indian
. Marc recently collaborated on the programming of the NMAI for the 44th Presidential Inauguration Celebration and provides consultation to NASA and other federal government agencies.
Multimedia artist
Multimedia artists are contemporary artists who use a wide range of media to communicate their art. Multimedia art includes, by definition, more than one medium, therefore multimedia artists use visual art in combination with sound art, moving images and other media...
and the CEO-Executive Producer of Herring Media Group, an international communications, design and production agency. Marc's clients have included: Live Earth / Washington DC with Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
, Yahoo! Inc
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
., The Wadsworth Atheneum
Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
Museum of Art, SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
, The Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
, ILM / Lucas Digital Ltd., Lexus, RadioShack
RadioShack
RadioShack Corporation is an American franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa. As of 2008, RadioShack reported net sales and operating revenues of $4.81 billion. The headquarters of RadioShack is located in Downtown...
, Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
and most major broadcast networks and international advertising agencies
Advertising agency
An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...
. His work has been extensively covered by the international news media
News media
The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
and presented in museums and universities throughout the world.
Marc has collaborated with Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
, Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, R.E.M., and many other performing artists in the creation of live events and touring concerts. In 1993, in partnership with Gannett and FCB, he developed the first international system of Projection Media installations as part of an Out of Home advertising network
Advertising network
An online advertising network or ad network is a company that connects advertisers to web sites that want to host advertisements. The key function of an ad network is aggregation of ad space supply from publishers and matching it with advertiser demand...
. Other pioneering achievements in the arts and advertising include producing the first television commercial
Television advertisement
A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product...
created on board the International Space Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
, organizing worldwide broadcast coverage of the reentry of the MIR space station
Mir
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...
and temporarily illuminating vast landscapes with live, digital multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
projections. In March, 2008 Marc's environmental media installation for the Yahoo! Time Capsule
Yahoo! Time Capsule
The Yahoo! Time Capsule, a brainchild of Jonathan Harris, is a time capsule project by Yahoo! Inc. where users could contribute to a digital legacy of how life was in 2006. The Time Capsule was originally intended to be beamed with a laser into space from a Mexican pyramid in an attempt to...
project was accepted by Smithsonian Folkways for future academic study.
Marc's current projects include the design and installation of high-rise Architectural Media™ installations in Times Square, international concert and broadcast production, and the development of cultural heritage
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations...
programs and commissions for advanced media installations. As part of FotoWeek DC, Marc annually designs and produces a heroic exhibition of projections called Night Gallery
Night Gallery
Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although...
DC. The program features the large scale display of photography and digital imagery curated from the collections of museums and photographers from around the world. Marc also staged environmental media works
MediaWorks (publisher)
was a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group known for their brand magazines and book labels. These included such well-known magazines as Dengeki Daioh, and Dengeki G's Magazine, along with MediaWorks' main light novel publishing imprint Dengeki Bunko. The company was merged with ASCII...
for the re-opening of the National Museum of American History
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...
and the debut of the Illuminated Oculus at the National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum operated under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution that is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native Americans of the Western Hemisphere...
. Marc recently collaborated on the programming of the NMAI for the 44th Presidential Inauguration Celebration and provides consultation to NASA and other federal government agencies.