Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz

Helyx is an experienced information professional with a passion for digital content management, metadata, and information system development. With over a decade of experience in information systems and technology management, Helyx has worked on numerous projects involving media asset management, metadata systems, and digital video production and editing.

Helyx began producing, editing, and directing video projects as a teenager.  Since then they have worked on documentaries, non-fiction and experimental narratives, multi-channel video installation, archival video presentations, and oral history video production. Their video art is built by, about, and for televisions and computers. Video production became the onramp to information science and digital asset management. Helyx is fascinated by the ways in which we organize and process our information-saturated world. Helyx’s professional work focuses on digital content and asset management as well as the intersection of technology and storytelling.

Helyx holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and a Master of Science in Information from Drexel University with a dual major in Library and Information Science and Digital Content Management.  Helyx is currently the Interim Director of the People’s Media Record. Previously they were the Information Systems and Technology Manager at the Movement Alliance Project.  Helyx has been a lifeguard, delivered pizza, edited wedding videos, and taught media production skills to people of all ages.