About
I have a wide variety of hobbies and interests, including music, art, cooking, paddleboarding, traveling, and walking.
Miki's Lifework
Creative Professional Experience
As a web and creative technology professional, Miki has worked with industry leaders, including Apple, Altera (Intel), Cadence, Google, and the Judicial Council of California in web production, content production/management, and localization.
Miki has also worked in the marketing and business development capacities for companies and clients, including Legato (Dell EMC), PacBell (ATT), National Semiconductor Japan, Sybase (SAP), and 3Com (HP).
Miki’s Independent Projects
In addition to her professional work, Miki initiated, led, and managed the following projects:
Digital Be-In Tokyo 95
Japan’s first large-scale digital Event
In 1995,
At the opening of this event, Gosney delivered the video keynote speech from Timothy Leary.
Miki met Timothy Leary at the event planning meeting in San Francisco and partied with him afterward.
Articles in Media about the Event
Tokyo Be-In
The first Digital Be-In held outside of San Francisco was held outside of the Western Hemisphere: in the Land of the Rising Sun. Co-organized by Verbum’s Michael Gosney (original Digital Be-in organizer), IDG Expo (organizers of MacWorld Expo), and Mikiko Murdoch (co-producer of Digital Be-in Tokyo 95), the event was held at Makuhari Messe Conference center in Chiba where MacWorld Expo was also held, and had 150,000 attendees (50,000 or more of which do not own computers!).
Event Details
The Be-In attracted about 2000 attendees. The event, sponsored by Apple Computer and others, began with a presentation by Michael Gosney of Verbum on the history of the Be-In and the connections between the 1960s Bay Area-based counterculture and the personal computer revolution. Gosney presented a videotaped keynote message from Timothy Leary, in which he complimented the Japanese people on their spiritual depth and modern leadership, and suggested that Japan is going to “Turn On, Intertune In, and Shine Out!”
Performances included live music. The Digital Art Gallery was organized by Tadao Shibata, editor of SuperDesigning magazine.
The Digital Frontier featured exhibits by avant-garde multimedia publisher Digitalogue, HSC Software, Oracion, and many others.
One of the most popular features of the event was an auction for the Kobe earthquake victims: vendors donated millions of yen worth of software. The publicity on the event was quite widespread, including national television news stories.
See Tokyo Be-In Videos on Facebook
Other Independent Projects
Book and Video Localization
Murdoch translated commercial books (Legal Care For Your Software, JAWS MAUI) and videos (Side-Off Video) into Japanese and worked with Japanese publishers to distribute localized media.
Publication Article Author and Writer
Murdoch wrote and published articles in periodicals in the US (Spang Robinson Report -AI newsletter, Windsurfing) and Japan (Imaging Business, Jazz Life, Windsurfer) in respective languages.
