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Tom Bray is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, specializing in digital media, film technology, and converging technologies. He serves as a consultant for the Converging Technologies program and has extensive experience in technical production for cultural events and artistic installations. His roles include Technical Director for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where he oversees live streaming, audio/video synchronization, and crisis adaptation strategies for virtual events.
Bray’s work integrates technology with art, focusing on projects such as digitizing historical archives (e.g., the Uganda National Museum’s Idi Amin collection), large-scale public murals using projection mapping, and collaborative installations like the multi-screen WORK Gallery exhibition. His technical expertise spans film preservation, digital preservation workflows, and cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists, historians, and technologists.
He has led projects such as the 2019 Uganda Archive exhibit, merging 70,000+ digitized negatives with audiovisual materials, and the 2013 ‘State of Exception’ installation. Bray’s innovations include problem-solving under constraints, such as ‘Tom-ing’ solutions in resource-limited environments, and has pioneered workflows for virtual festivals, including the 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival’s live-streaming infrastructure.
