Jason Silva

Jason Luis Silva Mishkin (born February 6, 1982)[not verified in body] is a Venezuelan-American television personality, short filmmaker, futurist, and public speaker.

[2] Silva writes and produces short films, is a former presenter on Current TV, and lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology, and humanity.

]—and it gained the attention of the Al Gore-Joel Hyatt station, Current TV, who, in Silva's words, were looking for "passionate storytellers".

"[8] He describes himself as a "wonder junkie"[1] and as a "performance philosopher",[9] a term he first heard on a website called Space Collective by Rene Daalder.

[15] Radical Openness was also featured in his presentation at La Ciudad de las Ideas conference on November 10, 2012.

"[20] The show, which premiered in 2011, received 1.5 million viewers for episodes one and two and set a National Geographic record as the highest rated series launch in that channel's history.

[26][27] In May 2013, Jason began "Shots of Awe", a YouTube channel on the Discovery Digital Networks TestTube, presenting weekly "micro-documentaries" on creativity, innovation, exponential technology, futurism, metaphysics, existentialism and the human condition.

[28] Zoltan Istvan, editor for the Huffington Post, wrote that Shots of Awe is a blend of philosophy and art and has been massively popular to the younger generation.

[9][38] His film Attention: The Immersive Power of Cinema[39] was part of the exhibition 'Kino und der kinamatografische Blick' ('Cinema and the cinematographic gaze'), 20 March - 2 June 2013, at MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen (Germany).

[40] In 2014, Silva was an advisor for National Geographic Channel's Expedition Granted competition in which finalists are chosen based on their project's originality, viability and potential impact on either the local or global community.