The Inspiration and Motivation Behind IMID Limited

Partially because my first Daughter had been removed from her Mother in 1989 by the Mental Health System, and due to a grievance that resulted, I began a project to eliminate the oppression and repression of Mental Health Clients by helping groups and individuals to publish online. That effort began with an education at San Francisco State University in the Multimedia Studies Program which was organized and taught by the people who created the World Wide Web as we know it today.

We learned the basics, such as the use of languages like html and css, but more importantly, they shared a vision of how it might best be used. People like Marc Cantor, and Lauri Anderson who inspired us with the practices of Richard Wagner and John Cage to show how we might assemble art and poetry, painting and photography, audio, video and music to set the stage and allow the composer to create a framework within which the mind of the viewer can think, experience or know. Using an effect such as dimming the lights in an Opera House before the show begins, or presenting a combination of elements in an elective way allows the viewer to understand something based upon a combination of interactive choices made at the viewer's discretion that cannot be understood by a author-controlled, author-driven presentation.

The following example says nothing about the content preceding or following the statements themselves, but the phrases when toggled put into question the validity of each other to contradict and cause one to wonder if words will ever work at all. A presentation like this wouldn't be comprehended without toggling these words when you are ready to receive them, something I cannot control.

I struggled with the invalidation of Mental Health Clients because it silenced people who really had something to say, people who were frequently the victims of crime, but could not be heard and would not be believed in courtrooms. People who had been robbed of their lives by jealousy, rivalries, greed and hatred. So, I wrote The Mission to help clients find their voice through Bay Area County Representation, empowerment within the Client-Run Non Profit Self-Help Organizations in the Bay Area, Advocacy within Protection & Advocacy Inc., and communications and publications online. That effort resulted in The Media Development Group, Berkeley CA, a Non Profit project dedicated to the publishing concerns of our community and what has now become IMID Limited.

The truth remains immutable, just as the past does. There is no such thing as insanity, just the judgements that separate us. I believe we are in good company! The analysis and distinctions made by professionals are codes used to pay for services and not much more. The service rendered is at best a friendship you have to pay for and their use often places doubt upon our witness.

Principal, IMID Limited.

Sometimes it helps to hold people accountable: Wrongful Death