Admission is FREE - But tickets are required.
Dea Goldsmith
Principal & Chief Creative Officer / Echo-Factory
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Dea Goldsmith is the co-founder of and Chief Creative Officer at Echo-Factory. Echo-Factory is a Pasadena-based advertising agency that launches brands and develops marketing strategy and assets for a broad range of clientele, from technology startups to the energy efficiency industry. Dea has more than 20 years’ experience in advertising and is known for her acute marketing strategy and creative insight. Her creative work has been recognized by her peers with two Best-in-Show ADDY Awards. She is passionate about helping clients achieve their goals and counts their success as the greatest measure of the agency’s success. Visit www.echo-factory.com.
Should artists embrace the coming technologapocylapse in all its shiny glory, or run back to their caves and start painting on the wall with plant-based dyes and brushes fashioned from the hair of native herbivores?
Once you involve a computer, is it really even art any more? Is technology ruining art, or making it better? WTF is art, and why are you asking? What are you some kind of dictionary? Geez! Stop trying to define me!
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Monday, October 19th, 2015 / 4:30PM to 6:30PM
FREE Admission with Ticket
Get Art Out of Technology
A Roundtable Discussion with representatives from Red, Ableton and Echo-Factory.
Jordan Hochenbaum
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering & Operations / Kadenze Inc.
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Jordan Hochenbaum is a co-founder, vice president of engineering, and vice president of operations at Kadenze, Inc., an online education platform that partners with leading universities and institutions worldwide to provide students with world-class art and creative technology courses at their fingertips. He is also a co-founder of FlipMu, creating interactive works for large-scale multitouch surfaces (such as the recent 4-story interactive cube for Red Bull and Vita Motus) and more. Jordan teaches in the Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence, and Design (MTIID) and Digital Media programs at California Institute of the Arts. Visit jordanhochenbaum.com.
RED
Cleigh Reed
Photographer & Cinematographer / RED
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Cleigh Reed is a California based photographer, cinematographer and skateboarding enthusiast. When not behind the camera or hard at work editing you might find him nosing around a comic book shop or perfecting kickflip nosegrinds. Visit www.red.com.
Tony McCall
Managing Director - North America / Ableton
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Managing Director-North America Tony McCall is Ableton’s Managing Director for North America. Ableton makes Live and Push, products that allow users/musicians to create and perform amazing things. He has many years experience as both a performing/recording musician as well as working with some of the industries most influential companies and individuals in the creation, manufacturing, and marketing of technology tools for musicians. Previously Tony spent over 10 years with Midiman, MAudio and Avid and helped to launch such brands as Ableton and Propellerhead in the U.S. Follow on Twitter: @Ableton Visit www.ableton.com.