Steven Alexander Rutt was a legendary video and digital media producer and inventor. He was born in Manhattan on Feb. 26, 1945, and spent his childhood in Great Neck, Long Island. He was the founder of Rutt Video & Interactive, a Manhattan-based video post-production studio. There, he mentored and employed numbers of SVA students, alumni and faculty members for over three decades, and provided editing services for many famous musicians and filmmakers.