Internet Pioneer, Artist (Los Angeles, Sidamo)

Internet Pioneer, Artist (Los Angeles, Sidamo)

Joshua M. Harris is an Internet Pioneer, Entrepreneur and Professional Artist.

In 1986 Joshua founded the world’s first Internet market research company, Jupiter Communications.  Jupiter Communications went public in 1988 and was subsequently merged and sold.

In 1994 he founded the world’s first Internet-based interactive television network (Pseudo.com), when less than 1% of US households had broadband.

Called the “Warhol of the Web”, Harris created social and human experiments testing the effect of media and technology on the development and understanding of personal identity.  Amongst many art projects, he created an underground bunker in the heart of NYC at the turn of the Millenium and had over 100 people move into his “living human Petri dish” – an artificial society where they lived in pods, each with their own surveillance camera and channel in a closed circuit network, and subjected themselves to artillery training and interrogations in order to be on camera.

Harris is the focus of director Ondi Timoner’s documentary WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, the winner of the Grand Jury Prize, Documentary, at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Currently, Harris is the CEO of the African Entertainment Network, which is based in Sidamo, Ethiopia.