About Jason Antoniewicz, Audiovisual Diarist
I help people use voice, video, and writing to build steadier lives, enabling them–through steady attention, mood, and direction, and at a realistic pace–to produce regular entries that lead to better thinking and relationships. Non-clinical, multidiscipline, informed practice.
I was born in 1970. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in what has marked my lifetime: dramatic technological advancements with implications for communication.
In the early 1980s, my mother (who'd shared a fascination with similar technologies) purchased an early consumer video camera and I took to it like there was no tomorrow, producing comedic films and making observational pieces. Personal computers soon proliferated.
In the 1990s, I would encounter the huge leap that is the internet. In the 2000s we had the smartphone era, and now we're in the era of AI: artificial intelligence, another transformative technology.
I attended five universities, studying Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, Technology, and Social Media - picking up bachelor’s and master’s degrees, along with a qualification in higher education teaching. That breadth lets me translate theory - Goffman, Foucault, McLuhan - into practical self-talk habits you can try today.
In 2000 I entered the mental health system for the first time. In 2009 I set up a community website, empowering people in ways they hadn't experienced in the system. It succeeded in terms of the impact it had on those using it.
From decades of practice and application I outline methods that, I’m convinced, improve the lives of people who’ve often been unaware about how power differentials can influence experience; my work shows practical ways to reorganise that experience through 'cumulative diarying'.
As an audiovisual diarist, I show how ordinary tools - voice, phone, simple edits - can help you think better, feel steadier, and build a public body of work at human pace.
I've lived in Luton, London, and Birmingham, and now currently reside in my hometown of Kidderminster, England, and go about my days looking forward to what, in the field of technology, information and communication, could possibly come next and how I can get it to work better.
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