Biography
An award-winning 20-year veteran of the new media field, Mark Jones has worked as an educator, producer, artist, and writer. Having worked at Pearson Education for ten years, he went on to form CyberStage Communications which began as the publisher of the first consumer arts magazine that examined the intersection between art and technology. Since then, Jones has worked for a wide variety of clients on groundbreaking projects, including for Gottschalk + Ash International, The Toronto International Film Festival, The Learning Partnership, Vera Frenkel, and others. From 2000-2004, he was Executive Director of OnTarget, an Ontario-wide initiative providing career development and education support programs for the digital technologies industries. Jones has been on numerous committees and boards, including those for The McLuhan Multimedia Festival, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, SIGGRAPH, Pixel Gallery, and The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI). In 2002, he was awarded the ITAC Community IT Hero of the Year Award, the Canadian New Media Award as Industry Advocate of the Year. Today he serves as Chair of the School of Creative Arts and Animation at Seneca College in Toronto, overseeing programs in animation, new media, graphic design, photography, acting, and music. He has an M.A. in Communication and Culture from Ryerson and York Universities.
