#ArtsTech: Disruptive Tech in the Arts

[Eyebeam Presents] #ArtsTech: Disruptive Tech in the Arts

Just about every major industry has seen its standard way of doing things disrupted by technology, challenging their assumptions and taking them far and beyond their comfort zone. This month we’ll hear from a few individuals behind companies that are striving to radically reinvent some aspect of the art world—be it the means of creation and production, ideas around collecting and patronage, or the very concept of who and what is an artist. How do they design for disruption? And what are the areas where we still need to shake things up?
Speakers:

Duann Scott – 3D Designer, Shapeways

Duann Scott is an  Australian Industrial Designer, writer and researcher specializing in the democratization of product design through online digital fabrication. He works with Shapeways to help promote the 3D printing company and it’s community. With experience bringing bespoke products to being through traditional fabrication techniques and cutting edge 3D printing technologies Duann’s practical experience combined with his academic research into the social implications of digital fabrication gives him a broad understanding of the field as it is evolving.

Khoi Vinh – Co-Founder and CEO of Mixel for iPad

Khoi Vinh is the co-Founder and CEO of Mixel for iPad, the world’s first social collage app, based in New York City. He has a long history as a user experience designer, writer and speaker, and was recently named one of “The 50 Most Influential Designers in America” by Fast Company. Previously he was the design director at NYTimes.com for five years, where he led the in-house design team in user experience innovation for digital products of all kinds. For over a decade, he has published his thoughts on design, technology and culture at the widely-read blog Subtraction.com.

Jonah Brucker-Cohen – Artist, researcher, writer

Dr. Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and writer. He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of theNetworking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor atParsons MFA in Design & Technology and Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory (ADHT). He has also taught in theMedia, Culture, Communication dept of NYU Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development (2009, 2010, 2011). He has also taught at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) (2007, 2008), and Trinity College’s MsC in Interactive Digital Media (2003, 2004). From 2001-2004 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europeand from 2006-2007 he was an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City.

Carter Cleveland – Founder, Art.sy

Carter Cleveland is the founder and CEO of Art.sy a new art discovery engine that’s currently completing its private beta testing period. Carter graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Computer Science who grew up getting dragged to galleries and museums by his parents and eventually developed a passion for fine art. Art.sy’s mission is to make all of the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, and core to this mission is the company’s ambitious development of The Art Genome Project™, an ongoing effort to map the characteristics that connect the world’s artists and artworks.
#ArtsTech is a monthly meet-up event that brings together those working at the intersection of arts and technology to share ideas, strategies, successes, challenges and failures.

$10 advance tickets; RSVP required on Meetup here.

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#ArtsTech is sponsored by Eyebeam and Tumblr, with livestream support from CultureHub.