DAY OF EVENT: A limited number of tickets will be available at the door- come by 5:15 to make sure you get a ticket. Cash only. See details below.

 Enlightened Spaces Winter Salon

Innovations in Interactivity:

Where Technology & Placemaking Intersect

February 23, 2011 

The demand for interactivity has reshaped every aspect of our culture. No longer content to simply observe and absorb, we expect to shape our environment and personalize our experience. Held at San Francisco’s beautiful new McLoughlin Gallery, this salon will explore how cities, neighborhoods and cultural organizations are using interactive media to engage people in public spaces and create a sense of place. Join our eclectic panel as they show innovations from around the globe and hypothesize where this trend is going. Debate encouraged!

NOTE: Don't miss our accompanying workshop on this topic on Saturday 2/26: PUBLIC SPACE AS MIXED REALITY: ART, TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY IN A DIGITAL WORLD. Click here for details/tickets.

PRESENTERS

Blaine Merker, Rebar

Scott Snibbe, Snibbe Interactive/Media Artist

Zakary Zide, Designer of Branded Environments + Experiences

Hana Iverson, Neighborhood Narratives

Lisa Zimmerman, 7Story (moderator)

TICKETS

Members (AIA, ASLA, Cultural Connections): $20 in advance, $25 at door

Non-members: $25 in advance, $30 at door

QUESTIONS

Lisa Zimmerman/7Story   lisa@7story.net or (415) 302-8195

Scott Snibbe is a media artist, researcher and entrepreneur in social interactivity. Whether on mobile devices or in large public spaces, his interactive art spurs people to participate socially, emotionally, and physically. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art, and he has written bestselling apps for the iPhone and iPad. Scott serves as the CEO of Snibbe Interactive, creating magical spaces where marketing, museums, and entertainment become interactive social spaces. Snibbe Interactive has staff on four continents and installations in more than twenty countries. Over 25 million people have experienced the firm’s Social Immersive Media.

Blaine Merker is on a mission to transform public space. He believes that inspiring creativity, connection and joy should be as easy as taking a walk outside—and that it's possible, if we change the way we design. As principal and co-founder of Rebar Art and Design Studio, he combines his passion for building things with an activist’s zeal for changing the culture of the commons. He has created dozens—and helped instigate thousands—of urban “interventions” around the world and writes, teaches and speaks internationally on the potential of experimentation and play to remix city life.

Zakary Zide wakes up excited to get to work.  He’s insatiably curious, enjoys turning big ideas into reality, and is an evangelist for the end-user. Trained as an ecologist and interaction designer, Zide is an award-winning strategist whose work integrates physical and digital realms to generate impact and intimacy between people, brands and the natural world. Author of Designing Outside In, he also maintains the Form Follows Gumption blog, and is Founding Director of the 8th Annual EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival.

Hana Iverson’s background is in photography, video, installation and interactive media. Her public projects, Cross/Walks: Weaving Fabric Row, View from the Balcony and the education initiative Neighborhood Narratives, employ the neighborhood as social practice, questioning place, embodiment, and social engagement inside of mobile and alternative distribution forms. She is Visiting Scholar, Institute for Woman and Art at Rutgers University (NJ), founder/director, The Neighborhood Narratives Project; on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Creative Research (NYU).