• mission statement

The Institute for Revolutionary Multi Media Arts - IRMMA, stands for the decolonization of media representation by changing the access of those who have traditionally been the creators of media. Through readdressing traditional pedagogical approaches, IRMMA is dedicated to reformulating the presentation of technological teachings taking into account the inherent instructive challenges of complex programs.   Technology as any skill can only of benefit if it is made accessible and IRMMA explores de-colonial methodologies to educate people in a more relevant way. People need to feel connected in some way to what they are learning in order for them to truly absorb the information. We need to feel connected in some way to what we are learning in order for us to truly absorb the information.   It is important to stay up to date and competitive but it is more important to have new technologies serve the relevant needs of the communities they are attempting to improve.

• about us

Anita David is a Computer Network Technologist with Instructional Development at UCSB and is the founder and supervisor of the Digital Editing Lab at Kerr Hall. After being a student video activist Anita rallied students and professors to demand access to production tools for the entire student population. For the past five years Anita and her staff have trained over 500 students a year from a wide range of campus departments that produce videos and DVD's for instructional use. She also runs a documentary production company and is the Executive Director of IRMMA, a non-profit that raises money to develop small production labs internationally at grassroots organizations and at-risk youth programs.

Frederick Backman is a video and photojournalist from Cape Town, South Africa who is currently located in Santa Barbara, California. A graduate of the University of Cape Town and UNESCO, he has had photo exhibitions in South Africa and the United States illustrating the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994 and the experience of exiled South Africans living abroad. He is currently the Co-Director of the Institute for Revolutionary Multi Media Arts (IRMMA) where he is trying to secure funding to create digital editing labs in grassroots organizations worldwide. Frederick has worked as a Computer Network Technologist for the College of Letters and Science at UCSB and has produced several political documentaries and satires for Zeituna Productions.