Gary Dauphin
Gary Dauphin is Director of Digital Interpretation at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts. Previous to that he was Associate Curator for Digital Presentation at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where he was part of the team that opened the institution. Among other recognitions, his work for the Academy Museum earned two Webby Award wins and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, on which he was principal investigator.
His writing has appeared in venues ranging from Artforum to The Root, from The Village Voice to Bidoun, from Vibe to Lacanian Ink, and his work as a multimedia journalist for Los Angeles public media has won multiple Los Angeles Press Club awards. He also created or rebuilt some of the early web’s most influential African American brands—AOL Black Voices, Africana.com, and BlackPlanet.com. He was once described in the New York Times as “hard to categorize.”