David Franklin is an award-winning video / graphic / performance artist with over 20 years' experience in media, including live national television, film, instructional, documentary, and music videos. He has supervised TV and film crews and has taught a martial arts workshop on a remote island. He has co-founded an experimental art center, a wellness services company, and a nonprofit cultural organization. He has worked as a chef at an Italian restaurant, an office manager at a nonprofit medical clinic for people with HIV, a media consultant and producer at a human rights organization, and a lecturer at a university. As a 4-th level instructor of Shintaido (a contemporary Japanese somatic discipine), he has traveled around the world teaching movement arts workshops. A native English speaker, David speaks Mandarin Chinese and Czech fluently and Spanish at intermediate level.

Education

Master's degree
Cognition, language, interaction: Digital culture and communication 
Université Paris 8, Paris FR, 2015

Diploma of Fine Arts
Graphic arts, performance, video
Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston USA, 1995

Bachelor's degree (cum laude)
Cultural Antropology
Harvard College, Cambridge USA, 1987

Additional non-academic certificates and diplomas:

Shintaido instructor (Japanese art of movement and health exercise) 4th degree, 2016
Shintaido Karate instructor 3rd degree, 2016
Shintaido Bojutsu (stick fighting) instructor 3rd degree, 2012
Certified shiatsu masseur and graduate of Boston Shiatsu School and East-West Institute of Alternative Medicine, 1998