Mitch Schultz

Mitch Schultz

DMTremix: Integration & Communication of the Entheogenic Experience

Synopsis:

Building on last year’s talk that purposed the conscious evolution of language, allegory, and mythology, the DMTremix Project serves as the base for this year’s lecture/workshop/art and the base for the multi-dimensional language system intended to influence all aspects of knowledge through the lens of entheogens. As the cultural dialogue surrounding psychedelics reemerges and evolves, the project submits the entire media library (100+ hrs. of interviews from 49 brilliant minds, 30+ hours from the Peruvian Amazon, two hours of VFX) from DMT: The Spirit Molecule to breath life into the development of a novel language. The collection explores a variety of themes, including the ecology of entheogens, scientific research with psychoactives, indigenous use sacraments, entheogenic effects, spiritual contexts, philosophical meanderings, cultural implications, and more. The project aims to engage the community (and world) to utilize all the elements in the library to construct their own entheogenic narratives. The stories that arise from the DMTremix Project will help reframe the social mythology of entheogens.


Bio:

Mitch Schultz began his life journey in Memphis, Tennessee and has since called Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Europe, and Peru home. Guided by his lifelong love of storytelling, Mitch has cultivated a multi-disciplinary expertise in motion pictures, interactive media, and culture hacking. He earned his Bachelor of Science primarily focused on media production, communication theory, and information mapping at the University of Texas at Austin. Soon after, Mitch completed his Masters of Fine Arts at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. As researcher at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch, he delved into a curriculum that “explores the imaginative use of communications technologies – how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives.” Mitch continues to foster his growth within the academic community by speaking at universities and conferences worldwide. Schultz has also worked as a branding consultant for VisionLab, the progressive HD cable channel dedicated to experimental video art. Following the successful launch of VisionLab, he shifted into independent film production as Director of Development for Ghost Robot, where he outlined a transmedia framework for the company’s future. As the Director of Sales & Marketing and Conceptual Producer, Mitch honed his commercial and branding skills with global clients. He segued from the commercial realm into developing Spectral Alchemy, an entity that generates bona fide mythology through the exploration, formulation, and revelation of revolutionary edicts via an esoteric modus operandi. As a hybrid entity and think tank, Spectral Alchemy creates transmedia narratives and culture architecture, which explore the inherent connections between consciousness, nature, language, technology, and the evolving human mythology. Current projects include the highly anticipated documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule, the filmic adaptation of Joe Loya’s lauded autobiography The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell, and the MNTTKA Manifesto, a multi-platform experience that outlines a new paradigm for consciousness, our relationship to nature, the celebration of that relationship, and the development of a new, syncretic language. Mitch is also the Executive Producer and Creative Director for the DMTremix Project and served as Artistic Director for the I/O Port at JFK International Airport, overseeing a conceptual & practical installation engaging the user through interpreting information from the airport’s arrival system as visual content mined from the web in order to aesthetically enhance the existing space. He has also contributed to R&D for Microsoft on Amnesia Moon, an episodic, interactive sci-fi mystery. As a screenwriter, Mitch has collaborated with Guy Garcia on Skin Deep and Douglas Rushkoff on Ecstasy Club. He continues developing novel concepts by writing, directing, producing, and examining experiential design. SpectralAlchemy.com / http://dmtrmx.com/