Cozy Operations is a media production company founded by Tim O’Keefe, a composer, artist, producer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Tim teaches electronic music and digital media arts at New York University’s Music Technology and Integrated Design & Media departments, and electronic music at the New School’s Contemporary Music program. Tim has produced large scale music and arts events in addition to film, podcast, and music related projects. He has worked with artists from all over the world on a variety of music and nonviolent civil resistance projects.
Tim’s particular interests are at the intersection of art, music, politics, policy, technology, and social justice. This led to his founding of Freedom Beat in 2013, a media space and social justice organization focused on the role of music in global nonviolent civil resistance movements. Freedom Beat has produced over 30 short form documentaries highlighting significant international music artists and the movements they are associated with. We have screened our documentary films at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and the Urban Voices Festival in Sweden.
As the founder and producer for Freedom Beat, Tim would research social justice movements and the artists connected to their causes; recruit local production teams, activists, and academic experts; coordinate each project’s production from planning to post; produce film, music, and written content to educate others about the importance and significant role of artists within the movements and social justice causes they are associated with.
His interest in nonviolent civil resistance led him to be invited to participate in the Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is deeply interested in the intersection of art, policy, activism, and technology. Bringing together his interests in politics, policy, storytelling, and audio, Tim has worked as a producer and sound designer on a variety of podcasts including The United States Institute of Peace & Burning Man Project’s Culturally Attuned podcast series, and Revolution 1: The Story of The Tunisian Uprising.