The speaker at the September CreativeMornings/Sydney was Jodie Fox, the Director of Fashion and Founder of Shoes of Prey.
From a background in advertising and law, Jodie now applies her communication savvy and sense of style to fostering a world-class tech business that allows women to design their own perfect pair of shoes. Since its launch in 2009, Shoes of Prey has allowed customers to design tens of millions of shoes.
In this talk, Jodie speaks on lessons learned in building a tech start up and making it a viral success. Jodie doesn’t believe in keeping her business plan a secret and reveals all in this extraordinarily insightful talk.
The event was generously sponsored by the amazing people at Campaign Monitor, and co-sponsor Tractor Design School.
Excellent video by Dave Katague.
“I see collaboration as a really important tool. It’s really at the center of bringing together arts and technology.”
Joe Coppard, Interactive curator, creative and consultant
speaking at CreativeMornings/Stockholm (*watch the talk)
Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other.
In this talk, appropriately given during CreativeMornings’ Arts + Tech themed month done in partnership with RISD, Jonathan revisits different phases of his life and the medium that marked them in his work as an artist. Starting with paint, Jonathan speaks on data, life, himself, and tool(s) — addressing both the positives and negatives of each medium as well as what he hopes for the future of arts + tech.
The Listening Machine Converts 500 People’s Tweets Into Music
Sonic artist and programmer Daniel Jones and composer Peter Gregson have joined forces with Britten Sinfonia orchestra to create The Listening Machine, a tool that listens to the social networking activity of 500 people in the United Kingdom and uses algorithms to translate that into music.
The machine is a piece of software that monitors the Twitter activity of 500 people (the team won’t reveal their identity to ensure that the musical outcome is not affected by people becoming aware that they are part of it) selected from eight different fields — arts, business, education, health, politics, science, sport and technology. Whenever these people post an update, the properties of the tweet are analyzed in terms of the sound and meaning of the words, and generates music based on it. Many different elements of the music have been prerecorded as individual musical cells, which are then recombined by the generative software.
The aim of the project is to create a six-month musical installation that is a “live soundtrack to the thoughts, opinions, feelings and conversations of the U.K.’s population, as played out on Twitter.” - Olivia Solon, Wired UK
http://www.thelisteningmachine.org/
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This is all sorts of amazing. Enjoy!
-JM
Cellist and composter Peter Gregson was the speaker at May’s CreativeMornings/London. The event took place in the Billiard Room at The Sanderson.
With these new tools and new emerging technologies, there’s really nothing that we can’t do.
Nelson Lowry, Supervising Production Designer a LAIKA
speaking at CreativeMornings/Portland (*watch the talk)
The desire to learn is really the only thing that you should have picked up in college.
Jessica Hische, Letterer, Illustrator and Designer
speaking at CreativeMornings/Vancouver (*watch the talk)
You learn the tools that you need to learn to make the things that you want to make.
Jessica Hische, Letterer, Illustrator and Designer
speaking at CreativeMornings/Vancouver (*watch the talk)
Hooray! CreativeMornings was featured on Wired this week in a fantastic article written by past-speaker at CreativeMornings/LosAngeles, Alissa Walker. Check out her talk here.
Read the article:
TED for Design Wonks: CreativeMornings Offers Coffee and a Shot of Inspiration
