Adam Jonathan Gee (born 12 September 1963 in London, England) is an award-winning London-based interactive media producer and commissioner.
In 2003 he moved to Channel 4 Television, London, where he is currently Cross-platform Commissioner (Factual) [1]. He is a specialist in multiplatform interactive projects around TV, commissioning factual and documentary interactive media. He was responsible for establishing Ideasfactory (renamed 4Talent in 2007), the Channel's creative industries talent development initiative. [2]
Gee was formerly Director of Production of pioneering broadband production company Redbus CPD [3].
He has won over 50 international awards for his productions - including two British Academy Awards (BAFTA), two Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards, a Design Council Millennium Award and the Grand Award at the New York International Film & Television Festival. Embarrassing Bodies Online won the Interactivity category of the TV BAFTAs in 2009. Both Lost Generation and Breaking the News were nominated for TV BAFTAs in 2006 and Big Art Mob was nominated for three TV BAFTAs in 2008. Empire's Children won the London Design Festival People's Choice (Y Design) Award in 2007. Big Art Mob won the RTS Innovation Award for mobile in 2007 and the Media Guardian Innovation Award for community engagement in 2008.
Gee has served on BAFTA’s Television and Interactive Entertainment committees and is a voting member of the European Film Academy. He has served on the board of ICA’s The Club at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and is a trustee of the 24 Hour Museum (renamed Culture24 in 2009) [4]. Gee is a Non-Executive Director of UK-based online marketing agency Hot Cherry [5] and of video dictionary Wordia.
Gee won the very first BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award (with Tim Wright and Rob Bevan) which was for Comedy presented by Stephen Fry in 1998. This was for a CD-ROM on creative thinking entitled 'MindGym'. He conceived the idea and co-wrote the script with interactive writer Tim Wright and writer/actor Ben Miller (Johnny English, etc.)
Gee served as an advisor on the UK government's Byron Review of Children and New Technology (child safety with regard to internet and video games) published in March 2008 [6].
He is a Freeman of the City of London through the Worshipful Company of Cutlers.
References
- ^ The Guardian, UK: Inside some of Channel 4's new media projects
- ^ Brand Republic
- ^ Cranfield/BT Vision 100 index of Britain's 100 most visionary companies (2002) published in The Guardian
- ^ 24 Hour Museum/Culture24 Trustees
- ^ The Guardian, UK: Channel 4's Adam Gee takes advisory role at Hot Cherry
- ^ The Full Byron Review Report (containing a list of key contributors to the Review).
Productions
Adam Gee's productions include:
- Big Art Mob
- Big Art Project
- Embarrassing Bodies
- Landshare
- Adoption Experience
- Sexperience, a sex education project
- Surgery Live, a collaboration with Wellcome Trust
- Osama Loves
- Empire's Children
- Picture This, a collaboration with Flickr
- Medicine Chest, a collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Breaking the News, a collaboration with ITN
- Lost Generation, a collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, London
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