ArtsTech community came out to make our first Unconference an unbelievable success

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Saturday’s First ever ArtsTech UnConference was a huge success with no small thanks to ever impressive featured session presenters and our amazing members who kept the conversations and spontaneous sessions going. The attendees got into the swing of things and added sessions on the spot to the schedule, in addition to our featured sessions that the ArtsTech team profiled on Tumblr leading up to the Conference. At the end, there were 36 sessions that we had on the official schedule! If you missed any of the write-ups on our impressive line-up of speakers, here’s a previously posted breakdown of who was featured. Sylvia Heisel should get a special shout-out for her endurance, hanging out for the entire day, to showcase all the innovations in Wearable Tech materials, and letting Conference goers stop by and try on some of the fabrics for themselves. The Twitter conversations were flowing, and some members even used it as a way to follow the conversation on what they were missing in one session while in another.

We wanted to offer another sincere thank you to our sponsors food and beverage sponsors, Plated and Dark Horse, to Marius Waltz for designing our totes, to Ian Smile for coming through on branding and wayfinding designs in the clutch, and of course to our hosts and supporters Solo Foundation, Wix, and AOL, for which all of this was possible. We’re looking forward to next year, and we’d love to hear feedback that we can use to make 2014 even better.

To relive some of the action, be sure to check out our photos and a storify post highlighting some of Saturday’s most memorable moments.

Unconference Featured Sessions

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We’re gearing up for a full day of art & tech nerdery and revelry at the #ArtsTech Unconference on Saturday, April 27th. The event will bring together:

- Arts professionals and artists who are using digital media to connect with audiences

- Artists using technology in their creative practice

- Arts & tech start-ups

We asked the #ArtsTech community to submit some ideas for featured sessions, and have selected the best ones from the incredible ideas we received.

Join us on the 27th to participate in one of these sessions or come to lead one of your own. RSVP HERE: http://artstech-unconference.eventbrite.com/

Venue Sponsor: AOL Artists

A Bit About AOL Artists: Unconference Partner

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Food Demo will be provided by Plated: Food Meets Tech Meets Creative Good Eats

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Session Type: Panel discussions and case studies dealing with digital strategy, social media, online identity management for individuals and organizations.

Unlearning without Deskilling – a Case Study of Art Historians and Engineers on an Impossible Misison

Presenter: Daniel Doubrovkine

This presentation will explain how engineers and art historians worked together to create the Art Genome Project for Artsy. Daniel will explore the tools and methods used in this exciting collaboration between art and science.

Performing Arts for a Wired, 21st Century Audience

Presenter: Kathryn Jones

The performing arts industry is in a crisis – audiences continue on a 30 year declines, revenues are falling, and there are fewer jobs in the performing arts today than there were in 1990. How should the performing arts industry evolve to meet the expectations and desires of a 21st century audience? This panel discussion will explore how technology can help the performing arts adapt to remain relevant today.

Multimedia Storytelling

Presenter: Brendan Schlagel

Brendan will lead a discussion on how multimedia is changing the nature of storytelling. He will explore everything from specific creative techniques and the pragmatics of telling an engaging story to the fundamental principles that will guide this field forward.

The Audience as Users

Presenter: Ben Elgart

Artists and creative technologists now engage their audiences not just as recipients or participants, but also as users. Methods from a user-centered design approach can help refine your vision to ensure that it opens the appropriate dialogue for your audience. This overview will provide a framework to think about your process and help you identify what techniques will advance your work and when to put them into action.

The Top Ten Strategies for Mastering Social Media in Real Time

Presenters: Susi Kenna & Lucy Redoglia

From press conferences to live performances to public art to high-profile parties—topics will touch on planning techniques, tools of the trade, managing participation, post-event tips and how to be a live tweeting pro. From the initial discussion, participants will compile a useful guide to planning and executing timely social media campaigns.

[Sponsor Session]: SOLO Foundation

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[Sponsor Session]: Wix

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Session Type: Theoretical discussions around art and digital technology, touching on new media art, media theory, and the aesthetics of code.

Concepts, Code, & Creativity

Presenter: Robert Strati  

This roundtable discussion led by Robert Strati explores issues concerning the conceptual connections and trends between contemporary art and technology. Participants will look at examples such as GLI.TC/H Conference, ArtStack, and Mechanical Turk to examine what the current landscape reveals about our intellectual and creative state.

Tactile New Media – Digital Arts meets Traditional Craft

Presenter: Ken Amarit

Part demo, part presentation, part discussion, Tactile New Media explores the role traditional crafting plays in creating works that are ultimately digital. Ken Amarit will begin this session with a demo of his game, Voyager, crafted from wool, stop-motion animated and digitized video game.

Beyond the Algorithm – Beyond the Content of Tech Art

Presenter: Carla Gannis

Beyond the Algorithm will discuss the work of artstech practitioners generating critically and socially engaged content. Topics will include how digital artists use current social networks to traverse class stratification and ethnic divides and why does exclusion still exist once artists are off the network and in the gallery?

1 Second Everyday

Presenter: Cesar Kuriyama

After years working in advertising and frustrated with his memory, Cesar Kuriyama took a year off to record 1 Second Everyday, documenting every moment in his life. Kuriyama will present the project as well as the much-lauded iPhone App.

Session Types: Performance & Hands-on workshop with moderate to advanced technical skills required.

Blogologues: The Internet Performed

Presenters: Allison Goldberg & Jen Jamula

A discussion about why social media is relevant to theater, and how it’s changing storytelling, how theater artists can embrace tech more wholeheartedly, and possible performance of 1-3 short sketches based on live tweets from Unconference participants

Spacebrew Workshop

Presenter: Julio Terra

One hour hands-on workshop about Spacebrew – a project of the LAB, to build an open, dynamically re-routable software toolkit for choreographing interactive spaces.

Digital Sound Manipulations

Presenter: Michael Feld

A workshop on using every day sounds and objects as instruments as a source for digital music and sonic possibilities. Participants will gain hands on experience working with electronic instruments, working together as an ensemble, and how to use this art form as a teaching tool.

 Beautiful Code

Presenter: Zeeshan Lakhani

A presentation aimed at those without the background in the theory behind programming semantics and design patterns, to show how coding as a discipline that is just as important as the outcome or product of the code itself.  Participants will leave knowing how to write better code for collaboration, and recognize some of the elegant abstractions and paradigms that are generalized across the board for all programming languages.

Vine-POPS

Presenter: Miriam Simun

The session will include a short presentation on the history and socio-technical history of POPS (Privately-Owned Public Spaces), a short presentation and ‘how-to-tips’ on making compelling VINE videos, and then a 20 minute sojurn into the three POPS in Astor Place, where participants will make their own VINE-POPS.

Session Type: Hands-on workshop, no technical skills required.

How Do You See Yourself? A Wearable Tech Workshop

Presenter: Sylvia Heisel

Experimental workshop where users will play with and photograph themselves wearing new tech materials and non-traditional clothing items such as reflective thread, tyvek, and LEDs.

Project Management Skills for Artists, Activists, Anyone

How to be A Secret (Change) Agent in your Organization

Presenters: Jen Leavitt & Michelle Paul

Participatory workshop that hopes to engage everyone in thinking about what makes an organizational change successful.

Data visualizations: techniques and data wrangling procedures

Presenters: Nathan Storey and Michael Thompson

This presentation will look at some awesome data visualizations. Michael will go through some of the techniques he uses in his work and Nathan will touch on some places to look for data, and how to wrangle the data into usable form once you get it.

Session Type: Demo Session with 5 minute lightning round presentations

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Data Wrangling in NYC

Tonspur – the first truly global music blog

Creating Arts & Culture Mobile Experiences

Art Intelligence: iPad Apps for the Art Geeks

Do Good As You Go & ArtsTech

Thank you to Dark Horse for providing us with wine!

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Sponsor Spotlight: S[edition]

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Everything You Could Possibly Want To Know About The ArtsTech Unconference

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#ArtsTech is bringing together our community of arts professionals, artists, makers and technophiles for a full-day event this April. Join us for the first ever #ArtsTech Unconference—an informal, day-long, participant-driven event where the attendees determine the topics and sessions.

The event will take place on Saturday, April 27th at AOL HQ with support from AOL Artists and the SOLO Foundation. Attendees will arrive in the morning to a complimentary breakfast and those who are interested in speaking, presenting or sharing their work at the #ArtsTech Unconference will have the opportunity to get their session ideas on the schedule. Select a session to attend or start a break-out discussion group of your own — this event is designed to empower our amazing community and facilitate skillsharing and collaboration around ideas in art and technology.

Below, we break it down in digest form. Hope to see you there!

Everything You Could Possibly Want To Know About The ArtsTech Unconference:

1. The Unconference is taking place on Saturday, April 27th at AOL’s offices near Astor Place. We’re taking over all 3 floors of their office space!
2. It’s a day-long event that will run from 9am-6pm.
3. Your ticket includes breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks throughout the day. Yum!
4. The attendees (that’s you!) determine the unconference session topics on the morning of the event. You simply arrive early and claim a spot on the schedule.
5. We’re curating a couple of Featured Sessions ahead of time. Submit a Featured Session application by April 8th to get a guaranteed spot and a free pass.
6. An ideal Unconference session is much more informal than a typical conference session and can be a group discussion, a presentation, a workshop, a hacking session, a screening, a performance, a skillshare, a demo, and more. Think of this as an open forum for discussing interesting ideas, timely topics or new projects.
7. You don’t need to lead a session to attend. You can come just to learn, participate and meet people.
8. Sessions are not for self-promotion. Rather, this is an opportunity for conversation, collaboration, and knowledge-exchange.
9. Early Bird tickets are only $20 (+ $2.09 Eventbrite processing fee). Early Bird RSVP ends on Monday, April 1st.
10. It’s most fun when you team up with a friend to lead a session or attend the day.

 

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Photos & Recap from March 25th Meetup @WixLounge

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Monday night’s meetup, “Lighten Up: Humor, Playfulness, and Humanizing Orgs” was a great success! The ArtsTech team wrote some great articles on Wix Lounge, and on the speakers featured in the meetup. Check out the links to the articles below.

“Meet Wix user and talented blogger/copywriter Kristin Rossi!”

“John Powers at Lighten Up.”

“Aaron Straupe-Cope will be speaking at the ArtsTech meetup.”

“Noel Hidalgo at Lighten Up.”

“Sebastian Chan to speak at the next ArtsTech meetup.”

“Meet Zoa Martinez!”

Here are some photos from the event. Photo credit: Galo Delgado.

 

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March 25th Meetup: Lighten Up: Humor, Playfulness, and Humanizing Organizations

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Monday, March 25, 2013 7:00 PM    Wix Lounge 10 West 18th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY RSVP

Reputation is often the most valuable asset you have as an organization or individual, and the bigger and more prestigious you become, the more important it usually seems to preserve your status in public perception. When we trade on our authority, do we run the risk of taking ourselves too seriously? Do we become averse to taking risks and showing any signs of personality? Our speakers will talk about how integrating humor, playfulness and personality helps humanize organizations and keep individuals true to themselves.

Schedule: 7:00pm – Doors. Mingling over wine and snacks.

7:30-8:30pm – Speaker presentations.

8:30-10:00pm – Conversation continues over more wine!

Speakers: Sebastian Chan is director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. He is responsible for the Museum‘s complete digital renewal and re-imagining. Previously based at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, he is known for his expertise in open access, mass networked collaboration, digital strategy, cultural sector metrics, and cultivating innovation in the cultural sector. He has also worked as a consultant for museums and libraries worldwide helping them adapt and change to the digital age. He was a member of the Australian Government’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce, and currently serves on several nonprofit advisory boards. He has a former life writing an aborted PhD, and as a festival and event organizer in new electronic arts and founded Cyclic Defrost magazine. He blogs at freshandnew.org and enjoys a sweet botrytis after dinner.

Aaron Straup Cope is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montréalais au fond. He usually just tells people he is from the Internet. Aaron is currently Senior Engineer (Internets and the Computers) at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Before that, Aaron was Senior Engineer at Flickr focusing on all things geo, machinetag and galleries related between 2004 and 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he was Design Technologist and Director of Inappropriate Project Names at Stamen Design, where he created the prettymaps and map=yes projects.

Noel Hidalgo organizes Open NY Forum, an open space where civic-minded communities and institutions can build civic engagement and civic technology. From 2009 till 2011, Noel served the New York State Senate as the Director of Technology Innovation where his team launched NYSenate.gov, one USA’s premier state legislative portals; organized the first unconference inside a State house,CapitolCamp. From June 2011 till October 2012, he worked at the World Economic Forum. In November 2012, Noel joined Code for America as their NYC Program Manager.

John Powers is a sculptor who writes about culture. He was born in Chicago and now lives works (and plays) in New York City. http://johnpowers.us/

About Wix: Located steps from Union Square, the Wix Lounge is a completely free co-working and eventspace for creative professionals. Grab your laptop, pop into the Lounge and enjoy a productiveworkday, great networking opportunities, and amazing events. Active since 2010, the WixLounge is run by Wix.com, a free drag-and-drop web publishing platform providing user friendlytools for building beautiful, easy-to-make desktop, mobile, and Facebook sites. The Wix Loungeprovides free support to Wix.com users, giving them help and advice for making the idealwebsite. To learn more about the Wix Lounge, please visit www.wixlounge.com.

Want to sponsor #ArtsTech NYC? Email Julia at jkaganskiy[at]gmail[dot]com.

ArtsTech NYC Unconference – April 2013

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#ArtsTech is bringing together our community of artists, makers, arts professionals and technophiles  for a full-day event this April. We’re hosting an unconference—an informal, day-long, participant-driven conference where the topics and sessions are determined by attendees.

The event will take place on Saturday, April 13th at AOL HQ and will draw between 200-300 attendees. Attendees interested in speaking, presenting or sharing their work at the ArtsTech Unconference will have the opportunity to get their session ideas on the schedule the morning of the event. Throughout the day, participants will take part in more than 25 different sessions that will include: workshops, presentations, round-table discussions, panels, how-tos, hacks, and more.

GET INVOLVED:

We are looking for event sponsors and partners to help make this event a success. If you’re interested in getting involved, please email Julia at jkaganskiy[at]gmail[dot]com for more information and to receive our sponsorship packet.

Upcoming Event on Crowdfunding

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On October 25th, ArtsTechSF will be co-hosting an event in San Francisco focused on Crowdfunding.

From the event site : http://mercyofthecrowdfunding.eventbrite.com/

Crowdfunding platforms are proving there’s a new way to raise money in the arts. As of April 2012, a total of 20,000 projects raised $200 million+ through Kickstarter alone. Join Arts + Tech SF and Emerging Arts Professionals (EAP) as we explore how crowdfunding platforms are being used in the arts and creative sector.

We’ll explore questions like:

  • How is technology and a hyperconnected world helping artists get their projects off the ground?
  • How are funding models being changed by technology?
  • And what happens if my project isn’t funded?

Our speaker lineup is still being finalized, so stay tuned. We’ll feature successfully crowdfunded projects, professional fundraisers, and artists engaging in crowdfunding.

 

Networking starts at 6pm
Panel at 6:30pm
Reception to follow

This program is presented by Arts + Tech SF, Emerging Arts Professionals / SFBA, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and is one of many Creative Conversations taking place in October as part of National Arts and Humanities Month, coordinated by Americans for the Arts.

Special thanks to our in-kind partners Naked Wines and Whole Foods Market.

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Upcoming Events in March

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We recently sent out the announcements below to our San Francisco listserve – but why keep a good thing locked up in email?

Below are a few good events happening in San Francisco and the Bay Area. If you’ve got an event you’d like to see listed, submit it here http://www.artstechmeetup.com/submit-an-event/ or post it on ArtsTech News

Closing this weekend – Tree City Legends, presented by Intersection for the Arts
http://theintersection.org/2012/01/tree-city-legends-theater/

Intersection for the Arts presents TREE CITY LEGENDS: the world premiere of a new performance by emerging playwright/musician Dennis Kim, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and the third installment of Intersection for the Arts’ and Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo’s Next series.

Tree City Legends is a multidisciplinary theater work that melds post-hip hop aesthetics, urban folklore, Korean traditional tales, live music, legend, and parable. It is all together, part bildungsroman, part blues song, and part Book of Jonah remix.

Biblical imagery, multi-perspective narrative, and a sense of longing underpin the main character, Junie’s story. These elements haunt Junie’s rise and demise as a folk-singing sensation and eventual escapist. The bitter realities of the neighborhood block and a ghostly past loom in the background as a family of brothers struggles to make sense of a world that was not made with them in mind.

The piece expands beyond any specific Korean American experience and explores the profound feelings of rootlessness and abandonment of urban people of color, specifically Asian Pacific Islander American immigrants in tracing the lives of the Kane brothers.

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Thursday – March 1st
After Dark @ The Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterdark/afterdark-vinyl

What happened to your stacks of wax? From handmade record players to DJs scratching new sounds, explore unique uses of an old-school material.

Learn how experimental physicist Carl Haber recovers the lost sounds of records made from wax, shellac, and other fragile materials, and find out how film editor and sound designer Walter Murch restored the Edison-Dickson experiment of 1894, the earliest synchronization of sound and motion pictures.

Follow the creative evolution of the turntable in original instruments made by Bay Area artists Walter Kitundu and Sung Kim. Absorb the pioneering sounds of turntablist DJ Apollo, and take part in Hiss Pop*, an interactive adventure set in the days when vinyl was king.

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Thursday – First Thursday Art
http://www.firstthursdayart.com/
A downtown tradition since 1993, on the first Thursday of every month many of our member galleries are open late for a casual open house. If you are making a special trip to visit a specific gallery, we recommend that you call first. Most locations 5:30-7:30pm.

For a listing of current gallery exhibitions, contact information, and to sign up for our mailing list, go to www.sfada.com.

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Thursday – Social Media and Community Meetup at CloudFlare
http://www.meetup.com/CloudFlare-Meetups/events/51902002/
Hear from industry leaders who manage the communities of LinkedIn, TaskRabbit, SoundCloud and CloudFlare. These experts will cover best practices of community management leaders, how to handle unhappy customers when they go to the web with their complaints, what social media outlets they use, tips and tricks for gaining community followers, and how to keep a community engaged.

Doors open at 6:30pm, presentation starts at 7pm. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

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Friday – Oakland Art Murmur
http://oaklandartmurmur.org/
The mission of the Oakland Art Murmur is to support art and cultural venues that are dedicated to increasing popular awareness of and participation in the arts of Oakland. We promote the arts community through collective marketing and outreach efforts and organize a monthly First Friday Art Walk event, Art Murmur, which is free and open to the public.

Every First Friday of the month, member galleries are open to the public from 6-9 pm. Additionally 23rd Street between Telegraph and Valley is closed to car traffic, and craft, art, and food vendors are set up along this corridor.

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Friday – Sunday – Art Hack Weekend
http://www.gaffta.org/2012/02/13/art-hack-weekend-sf-a-webgl-html5-hackathon/
Art Hack Weekend SF is an opportunity for San Francisco’s leading web designers, developers, artists and hackers to exchange concepts, projects, and to create the next phase of cutting edge web apps. The hackathon hopes to attract all who seek to push pixels out of the screen and implement highly dynamic and interactive creative experiences into their websites. With you, we hope to not just reimagine the future of the web but actually build it.

More than just a weekend hackathon, Art Hack Weekend SF will focus on unearthing new properties of the web by exploring the nature of how we build and interact with 3D objects. This hackathon’s aim is to transcend the traditional 2D experience of the internet by combining radical thinkers that dream of projects outside of the screen, but interpolate them into an web-based experience. When the Bay Area’s preeminent innovators and creatives gather together the results always yield useful projects, products, and partnerships that largely exceed the sum of their parts.

As our culture migrates onto the internet at a startling rate, we become increasingly dependent upon the use of creative applications to better understand the world we’re living in. We believe that merging technologists hailing from a variety of backgrounds with artists and other creative thinkers harvests unforeseen projects that shine light into the uncharted corners of the internet. Over the course of the weekend, web design’s playful sensibilities meet progressive visions of contemporary culture to push the boundaries of what was previously thought possible.

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The Creators Project – Fort Mason – March 17-18
http://thecreatorsproject.com/events/the-creators-project-san-francisco-2012

from the site : We’re thrilled to be bringing The Creators Project to San Francisco—the world’s epicenter of technology and innovation—for the very first time this spring. We’ll be kicking off our 2012 event series and transforming historic Fort Mason into a colossal two-day art and technology festival featuring towering multimedia art installations, live music performances, film screenings, and panels.

We’ll be exhibiting the best of The Creators Project including United Visual Artists’ striking 40-foot by 40-foot audiovisual installation Origin, scored by electronic composer Scanner, Meditation by Minha Yang, Strata #4 by Quayola, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty by Zigelbaum + Coelho, and several new works from our Creators.

On Saturday we’ll be hosting an array of live music performances, and throughout the weekend we’ll be screening films and hosting creative workshops and panel discussions.

Featuring installations by United Visual Artists, Scanner, Quayola, Minha Yang, and Zigelbaum + Coelho

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Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes
http://museumca.org/exhibit/daniel-clowes-a-first-survey

April 14, 2012 – August 12, 2012
Based in Oakland, Daniel Clowes is internationally acclaimed for award-winning comics, graphic novels, and screenplays. With nearly 50 publications in multiple reprints and editions in ten languages, Clowes is credited as the cartoonist most responsible for developing the graphic novel into a credible literary form. The film version of Ghost World (2001), directed by Terry Zwigoff, earned Clowes an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes reveals hundreds of original drawings and artifacts in an inspired installation environment. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive full-color monograph. Organized by independent curator Susan Miller and Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman, the exhibition is the first major survey of the work of Daniel Clowes.