(Tickets give you free access to opening night party @ Lot45 sponsored by Hotel BPM *** MUST RSVP)
PROJECT: FILMBOT
SPEAKER: Max Friend, Founder of Filmbot
Filmbot is the next-generation app for moviegoers now launched in New York City, moviegoers finally have one platform to save movies to see, access all theaters and showtimes, score and review films after seeing them, sync with friends to know how they reviewed a film and who still wants to see it (with the option to text or call directly from the app) and know when saved movies that were missed in theaters becomes available on Neflix, iTunes and Amazon.
ABOUT MAX:
Max Friend is the founder of Filmbot, the next-generation app for moviegoers now available in New York City, and lives with his wife Megan in Bushwick. Max started collecting his movie ticket stubs as a teenager and eventually worked as a box office cashier at his local cinema. After studying theater and film at Northwestern University, he moved to NYC and dove into every film opportunity, spending time on film sets, in production offices, and at Filmmaker Magazine and The Museum of the Moving Image. Gravitating towards the possibilities in emerging tech, Max began imagining a new kind of moviegoing platform. Earning his MBA in Entertainment, Media, & Technology (EMT) at NYU at night, he developed as a product designer at ITP at NYU Tisch while working as a Publisher at Mediaplanet. After time at Tribeca Film and two years leading product marketing across the most popular verticals at AOL Huffington Post, he now leads Filmbot and looks forward to finally sharing it with moviegoers from coast to coast after years of quiet development.
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PROJECT: DOCUMENTARY IN A DAY
SPEAKER: Joe Posner, Vox.com
ABOUT PROJECT:
Joe Posner used to work on documentary features, and make animation for them, spending months to years on each project he was part of. Now working within a news environment, Joe puts out work at least twice a week. He'll showcase some of the newer work for Vox.com, show how internet news and filmmakers have a lot to learn from each other, and if the audience is game, maybe we'll make a mini-documentary of our own together.
ABOUT JOE:
Joe Posner is Director of Video at the new explanatory journalism site Vox.com, leading a small team making video and multimedia about issues of the day. Previously, he created a series of animated essays for Newsweek, and contributed animation to many documentary features including Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot.
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PROJECT: SHADOWS OF ISOLATION
SPEAKER: Jake Lee-High, Future Colossal
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Shadows of Isolation is an exploration into virtual reality composition and immersive environments. While artists have been working with both gaming and virtual reality for years, emerging technology has completely changed the art form. Artist and Game designers are now tasked with exploring a new language, and how it relates to those immersed within. Much like early painters, before we can abstract the technology we need to understand it through attempting to realistically depict the world around us. In Shadows of Isolation, the dream-scape is our still life. We are harnessing a tangible space that utilizes a known and commonly experience language. This allows us to work in an abstract manner without needing to reinvent experiential norms. Combined with the archetype of the first person video game, the work becomes easily accessible.
ABOUT JAKE:
After studying art and architecture at UNLV, Jake Lee-High founded a boutique architecture design firm while continuing to produce and show installation art works. These art works started out as architectural abstractions, but soon lead to the use of custom electronics and programming. To further his knowledge of creative coding and technology, Jake received his MFA from the Mass Art SIM program. This leadJake to close his architectural business and focus on commercializing his art work. After working as Experiential design director for digital out of home agencies, Jakefounded Future Colossal with the mission of creating a balance between commercial work and the arts. Since then, Future Colossal has gone on to work with great clients such as BMW, Jay Z, and Showtime while continuing explore the boundaries of art and technology.
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PROJECT: NY PROXIMITY
SPEAKER: Billy Keefe, Live Nude Tech
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Don't sit so close to the TV! Proximity is an interactive pop culture hack that uses computer vision and projection mapping to explore the physical relationship between the viewer and characters in mainstream television and film. This site-specific, never-ending, never-repeating film invites audience members to control the running narrative of popular culture through body movement, activating the viewing experience and fundamentally changing the viewer's understanding of mise-en-scene.
ABOUT BILLY:
Billy Keefe is creative technologist with over a decade of professional experience working for creative institutions including PBS, Sesame Workshop and The Brooklyn Academy of Music. Billy’s current research at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering explores interactive narrative, data and gender. Billy is also a teaching artist. His collaborations with NYC youth have won international acclaim and been featured in film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Billy is a founding member of the Kansas City Safe Schools Coalition and Live Nude Tech, an art technology collective.
URL: http://formale.tumblr.com
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PROJECT: THE SKIN DEEP
SPEAKER: Julia Gorbach, The Skin Deep
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Skin deep is a new online media brand creating experiences that makes you rethink how you connect with others
ABOUT JULIA:
Julia Gorbach is a Creative Producer at The Skindeep. Ukrainian-born and NY-raised, Julia's immigrant background, NYC outlook, and international travels strongly influence her creative energy and perception of modern day film and media. Julia received an Honors Bachelors of Art in Media Studies from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College in NYC.
Julia began her career exploring acting and modeling before transitioning behind-the-scenes into the production aspect of filmmaking. She worked at the ÉCU Independent Film Festival and William Let Photography Studio in Paris, France before jumping into producing roles for smaller fashion films and music videos, as well as international independent films, such as Salomé, Anomalous, and Forbidden Cuba.
Always with a passion for merging different fields and rethinking the given, Julia joined the forward-thinking creative team of The Skin Deep in January 2014 and produced their first two experiences {The And} and Senior Orientation.
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PROJECT: DIGITAL DIASPORA ROAD SHOW
SPEAKER: Don Perry, Digital Diaspora Family Renunion, LLC
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Combining the best features of PBS’ Antiques Roadshow and NPR’s Story Corps, DDFR seeks to mutually support and amplify intergenerational dialogues among ethnic and minority youth and their elders around the images and stories contained in their family photographic albums. The ultimate goal of DDFR is to break down barriers between people of different backgrounds and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences and connecting personal histories to a larger narrative. DDFR consists of a touring DDFR ROADSHOW (http://nyti.ms/gHjnae) and an online web portal, www.DDFR.TV, which together uncover, illuminate, educate and entertain participants about their hidden history as captured in their family photo albums, creating in essence a “people’s history” of the city. DDFR can open avenues for self-discovery, cross-cultural communication and intergenerational dialog that will benefit all who engage with it.
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1:30PM: Webseries Screening followed by Director Q&A
AMERICAN KOKO
NO YOUR CITY
SAD MOTIVATOR
SAN FRAN LAND
1 MINUTE MEAL
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*** Please note that tickets to this event admits you to the 3:00PM Screening of the film WEB, directly after New Media Day.
Web, directed by Michael Kleiman follows Peruvian families living in remote regions as their children experience the One Laptop per Child program, gaining access to the Internet for the first time. WEB considers both the benefits and complications that arise from digital connections. Alongside the poignant and sometimes humorous local stories, Kleiman interviews leading thinkers on the Internet including author Clay Shirky, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and One Laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte for an insightful look at our times.