CODAsummit:
The Intersection of Art, Technology, and Place
 
 
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About CODAsummit

CODAsummit Virtual will feature world-class speakers, content, networking opportunities – all in a completely virtual, immersive experience. This gathering brings together creative professionals from all areas of our community – to meet, connect and learn from one another.

Imagine speakers and attendees connecting - no matter where they are physically (all over the world!). CODAsummit Virtual will continue the tradition of past events – by creating a shared moment in time, allowing everyone to feel part of something bigger. And let’s face it, at this moment in time, we really need to feel part of something bigger.

Our theme is creative revolution; presentations will provide us with the vision, strategy, and effective practices to bring about change. Content includes both theoretical and practical information, drawing from internationally-known artists, technologists, and thought-leaders in the art and design worlds.

We have gathered together a diverse group of creative revolutionaries who are taking a stand through their artwork and the spaces they transform. If that definition describes you, please join us.

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Schedule of Events

CODAawards Celebration Party!

3D virtual world via Second Life

Wednesday, September 30th
07:00pm - 08:30pm
 
Come join us for this one-of-a-kind virtual party honoring the recipients of the 8th Annual CODAawards! The CODAawards are the most prestigious awards program in the world that celebrates the collaboration of design + art, created to recognize outstanding projects that successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces.
 
This year, we went “all in” on technology - not only as the subject of our conference, but in the way we created it! We’re excited to meet you in 3D via Second Life for a brief ceremony, a fresh environment, a virtual cocktail reception, dance and social space. You’ll get to see video and images of the award winning projects, and get to know your fellow attendees in their avatar form.

Created by Alt Ethos of Denver, CO, this virtual event kicks off our conference with a bang, integrating technology, art, social connection, and importantly... PLAY. We look forward to seeing you in virtual space!
 

9:00 - 9:15 am        Welcome Remarks

9:15 - 10:00 am       Opening Keynote: The Role of Art in the Future of Technological Development

Amsterdam’s studio DRIFT creates work with depth and simplicity, raising fundamental questions about what life is and exploring a positive scenario for art influencing our future world

  • Lonneke Gordijn    |    Co-Founder, studio DRIFT
  • Introduction by Barbara Tober    |    President, Acronym, Inc.

10:15 - 10:15 am       Networking

10:15 - 11:15 am      Commissioning at the Intersection of Art + Technology

Leading commissioners in diverse market segments discuss innovation in commissioning at the forefront of new technology
  • Christiane Paul (Moderator)   –   Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum
  • Clodagh   –   CEO, Clodagh Design International
  • Katherine Dirga   –   Program Manager, Atlanta’s Art in Transit
  • Tim Fredregill   –   Development Executive, Milender White
  • Martha Weidman   —   CEO, NINE dot ARTS 

10:15 - 11:15 am      Case Study: Art and the Experience Economy

  • Canal Convergence, presented by Jennifer Gill

11:15 - 11:30 am       Networking

11:30 am - 12:30 pm      Straight Talk

An artist, an airport commissioner, and a fabricator pose difficult questions and demand straight answers from one another – all in the spirit of transparency

  • Joe Riche (Moderator)   –   Firm Principal, Demiurge
  • Lauren Lockhart   –   Art Program Manager, San Diego International Airport 
  • Vicki Scuri   –   Public Artist, SiteWorks
  • Steve Blanchette   –   Executive Producer and Technical Director, Wireframe

11:30 am - 12:30 pm     Art & the Built Environment:  Top Five Legal Issues for Art Commissioners

Experienced art lawyer discusses issues around commissioning artwork, including federal protection for artwork and key contract terms regarding digital and computer-enabled artwork.  The session will highlight the legal issues with augmented (and other) technologies.
  • Sammetria Goodson   –  Art Law Attorney who works with designers, artists, companies, consultants, curators, makers, arts organizations, cultural institutions, storytellers, and multidisciplinary creatives
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm     Case Study: Art and the Experience Economy

  • Quartier des Spectacles, presented by Eric Lefebvre
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12:30 - 1:30 pm      Virtual Lunch and Table Talks

1:30 - 2:00 pm      Starting and Growing a Creative Business

  • Alice Loy   |   Co-Founder, Creative Startups

1:30 - 2:00 pm      Case Study: Art and the Experience Economy

  • LightRails:  Light Sculpture as Placemaking, presented by Bill FitzGibbons

2:00 - 4:00 pm      Industry Presentations

  • 20-minute Industry Presentations (12)
  • (3) simultaneous group chats, presentations are pre-recorded and accessible throughout conference

7:00 - 8:30 pm      Movie Night

  • Short videos (7-minute presentations) by CODAsummit attendees about projects using new technologies

9:00 - 9:45 am      Keynote: The Perpetual School of Infinite Amazement

Moment Factory from Montreal creates destinations that offer new experiences to the world; their work aims to inspire a collective sense of wonder and connection

  • Amahl Hazelton    |    Head of Strategy and Development, Moment Factory

9:45 - 10:00 am      Networking

10:00 - 10:45 am     How We Did It

Risk:  the necessary ingredient for artistic growth

  • Gail Folwell    |     Folwell Studios
  • Jeremy Crandell    |    Arts enabler and former Project Manager, Burning Man Project

10:00 - 10:45 am     How We Did It

Creating Winning Public Art Proposals

  • David Dahlquist    |    Principal, RDG Planning and Design
  • Matt Niebuhr    |    Senior Partner, RDG Planning and Design

10:00 - 10:45 am     How We Did It

New Venues for Digital Artists:  Video Walls and Urban Screens

  • George Fifield    |    Director, Boston Cyberarts

10:00 - 10:45 am     How We Did It

Dealing with the complexities of installing large artworks overseas

  • Ralph Helmick    |    Sculptor

10:00 - 10:45 am     How We Did It

Case Study: How to Transform Space through Experience

  • Bill Fitzgibbons

10:45 - 11:00 am     Networking

11:00 am - noon     Case Study: Art and the Experience Economy

  • Discovery Green Conservancy, presented by Barry Mandel

1:00 - 1:45 pm       Creative Revolutionaries: Building Bridges

Nohlab from Istanbul is on a constant search to remove the borders and build bridges between the human, place and time

  • Candas Sisman   |     Co-Founder, Nohlab 
  • Deniz Kader    |     Co-Founder, Nohlab

11:30 am - noon     Conversation: Art + Technology - An Early History

Museum pioneer discusses moving video artists such as Bill Viola and Nam June Paik into the mainstream of museum exhibitions; National Public Radio interviewer guides the conversation
  • David Ross    |    Chair of MFA Practice at the NY School of Visual Arts, former Director of the Whitney Museum and SFMOMA
  • Anne Strainchamps    |    Host and Co-Founder, NPR’s To the Best of our Knowledge
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Noon - 1:00 pm    Virtual Lunch: Table Talks

1:00 - 1:30 pm     Conversation: Art Marrying into Architecture

  • Ed Schlossberg     |    ESI Design

1:30 - 2:30 pm       Artist Showcases

10-minute presentations by artists who work in augmented reality, video projections, digital mapping, data visualization, sound…and much more
  • Twelve 10-minute Artist Presentations
  • 2 simultaneous group chats, presentations are pre-recorded and accessible throughout conference
 

3:00 - 3:45 pm     Closing Keynote: A Perspective on the Future

A leader in the visual art gallery world comments on the fact that major galleries and architectural firms are embracing the digital experience – and how that affects the commissioned art industry

  • Christy MacLear    |    CEO, PaceX

3:45 - 4:00 pm     Closing Remarks

 

Keynote Speakers

Lonneke Gordjin

Lonneke Gordijn

Co-Founder
studio DRIFT
Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded studio DRIFT in 2007. With a multi-disciplinary team of 64, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances. DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it.  DRIFT has realized numerous exhibitions and projects around the world. Their work has been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum (2009, 2015); Met Museum (2010); Stedelijk Museum (2018); UTA Artist Space (2019); Garage Museum (2019); Mint Museum (2019); Biennale di Venezia (2015); Pace Gallery (2017).
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Amahl Hazelton

Head of Strategy and Development
Moment Factory

Amahl Hazelton joined Moment Factory in 2009, and now heads Strategy and Development for the multimedia studio’s ‘Cities’ division. His experience in Digital Placemaking ranges from experiential place promotion activations for Tourism bureaus to permanent visitor attractions and storytelling activations on flagship civic facades. A graduate of McGill University’s School of Urban Planning with a specialization in Place Branding & Competitive Identity, Amahl has led the development of groundbreaking media architecture installations that celebrate local, regional and national identity from LAX and Changi airports to iconic civil infrastructure such as the Interactive Illumination of Montreal’s monumental Jacques Cartier Bridge--which earned the Smart Cities Grand Prize at SXSW 2018.

Candas Sisman + Deniz Kader

Candas Sisman + Deniz Kader

Co-Founders
Nohlab

Nohlab is a studio focused on producing interdisciplinary experiences around art, design and technology. It builds a bridge between the digital and the physical reality, while examining the relationship of technology with art and design. It produces tools, designs and stories in which the connection between the human and technology reflects in many different ways. The works of the studio have been in numerous international festivals & events such as ISEA, Signal, OFFF, TedX, Vivid, Sonar Istanbul, World Government Summit, and received awards from Culturespaces, ARS Electronica and Japan Media Arts Festival. The studio also worked with many brands and organizations including Chanel, Pink Floyd, Target, Audi, Nike, Scriabin Museum, Atelier des Lumieres and EA Theater.

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Christy MacLear

CEO
PaceX

Christy MacLear is the CEO of PaceX, a new company connecting experiential media artists with a broader consumer market. PaceX represents a community of diverse contemporary artists who create transformative experiences with the potential to change how people see the world, how they relate to it, and the impact they can have on it. Throughout her career, MacLear has focused on building companies in pioneering territories, including art, legacy, placemaking, and real estate.  She was previously Vice Chairman at Art Agency Partners, a subsidiary of Sotheby’s, and the first CEO of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Ed Schlossberg

Ed Schlossberg

ESI Design

An internationally recognized pioneer in experience design and audience engagement, Ed Schlossberg launched his career in 1977 with the design of one of the world’s first interactive museums, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Since then, he has been at the forefront of design and technological innovation, creating imaginative and unparalleled public experiences that bring audiences together to explore, learn, communicate and collaborate. Under Schlossberg’s leadership, ESI Design has created groundbreaking corporate and retail spaces, sales and innovation centers, museums, digital media installations and multi-player game environments for an array of companies, brands and cultural institutions. Recent clients include eBay, WarnerMedia, PNC Bank, Barclays, Beacon Capital Partners, Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.

Featured Speakers

Steve Blanchette

Steve Blanchette

Co-Founder
Wireframe

Steve is the co-founder of Wireframe, a public art agency based in Montreal. With years of experience both in and out of museums, this industrial designer with a passion for placemaking has since become an expert liaison when it comes to public space activations. Overseeing technical development, he merges different aspects of his past professional life, seamlessly blending engineering, art and technology in every project.  Over the years, he has developed a unique expertise in the technical management and production of interactive art installations. 

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Clodagh

Director
Clodagh Design

Clodagh is a multi-discipline designer based in NYC for the past 25 years. Her award-winning portfolio spans over twenty-four countries and includes hotels, luxury spas, healthcare facilities, residential, branding, fashion, and home products. She oversees two acclaimed companies, Clodagh Design, her interior design practice, and Clodagh Signature, her product design studio. Clodagh creates life-enhancing environments and is committed to sustainability and authenticity in materials. Clodagh passionately believes that good design supports well-being and that it can transform people’s lives. As a pioneer in the use of Feng Shui in her designs, she joyfully embraces both ancient and cutting edge methods including chromotherapy and biophilia.

Michael Chavez

Michael Chavez

Public Art Program Manager
City of Denver

Michael Chavez is the Public Art Program Manager for the City & County of Denver. Denver’s 1% for Public Art Program celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018 and holds more than 410 public artworks in its collection with more than $40 million invested in public art since 1988. Chavez oversees the conservation, care, and maintenance of the collection as well as the selection process for new public art commissions. Currently, the program has more than 30 active public art commissions in progress. 

JeremyCrandell

Jeremy Crandell

Arts enabler and former Project Manager
Burning Man Project

Jeremy Crandell is a technology entrepreneur and product manager working in the nonprofit management of the arts and education sectors.  He describes himself as an art enabler, leaning on the considerable skills he gained as co-lead for the Art Department for Burning Man, where he managed large-scale and technical art installations.  Previously, Jeremy worked as a producer for AOL and was co-founder of an email protection platform.  He is an active supporter of the arts, environmental conservation and astronomy, and serves on the board of The Crucible, an industrial arts school in Oakland, CA.

Gavin Downey

Gavin Downey

Senior Product Manager
EPSON America

Gavin Downey has spent over twenty years in segments of the technology industry undergoing transformation. He began his career at a manufacturer selling network connectivity as fiber optics were forever changing how people, companies and the world were connecting. Moving into product management at Dell, he marketed early visions of what would eventually become the smartphone by Palm, Handspring and Blackberry. Gavin led the creation of a global ecosystem of accessories for the iPod and iPhone as a director of mobile product management at Belkin International. Drawn to the transformation of the display industry by laser based projection technology and large-scale projection mapping, Gavin now leads Epson’s largest venue projector segment.

Gail Folwell

Gail Folwell

Artist
Gail Folwell is an artist, designer, teacher and sculptor from Boulder, Colorado. Her public art and private installation clients include the Denver Art Museum, University of Notre Dame, Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Vail Resorts. Folwell Studios creates abstractly figurative works and champions the belief that artists and athletes; music, performance, sport and fine art have the power and responsibility to unify, inspire, teach and heal the planet. 

Tim Fredregill

Tim Fredregill

Development Executive
Milender White

Tim laid the groundwork for his real estate development career via a degree in civil engineering from the University of Iowa. Upon graduating, he joined a structural engineering firm and spent several years designing projects ranging from multistory residential developments to industrial and manufacturing facilities. He then joined RCS full time, launching his career in real-estate finance and development. Tim now leads Milender White’s development initiative, bringing development experience ranging from 150-acre master-planned subdivisions to boutique, multifamily infill opportunities.

Sammetria Goodson

Sammetria Goodson

Art Law Attorney
Sammetria is an Attorney who works with designers, artists, companies, consultants, curators, makers, arts organizations, cultural institutions, storytellers, and multidisciplinary creatives. She focuses her practice on copyright, trademark, business formation, non-profit formation, contracts/transactional work, licensing, entertainment-related contracts, outside general counsel services, Art Law, Fashion Law, New Media & Design Law, Entertainment, and Dispute Resolution/Litigation. She brings her experience in corporate marketing and sales, a robust judicial clerkship, heavy litigation practice, and transactional work with creatives to her practice at Goodson Law.

Ralph Helmick

Ralph Helmick

Artist

Ralph Helmick is an award-winning sculptor and public artist whose work can be seen at over 50 institutions across the United States including courthouses, parks, airports, schools, hospitals, forensics laboratories and museums. Nearly all of his sculptures speak to the intersection of art and science. Distance and perception. Anamorphosis. Pareidolia. Optical consolidation. These visual phenomena are employed towards bold esthetic ends.  In 2018 he completed his most ambitious commission to date, The Constellation, a monument to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late founder of the United Arab Emirates, which won the 2019 CODAawards.

Lauren Lockhart

Lauren Lockhart

Art Program Manager
San Diego International Airport

As Arts Program Manager for San Diego International Airport, Lauren Lockhart leads the airport’s efforts to realize ambitious public artworks which are seamlessly integrated into the airport environment. She recently contributed to the development of a comprehensive Arts Master Plan for the airport that will guide the program through its largest capital project to date. Lockhart works to advance and diversify the field of public art by creating opportunities to support emerging artists making the transition from a studio to public practice. 

Christiane Paul

Christiane Paul

Adjunct Curator of Digital Art
Whitney Museum

Christiane Paul is Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and her most recent book is A Companion to Digital Art (May 2016).  At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art.

Joe Riche

Joe Riche

Firm Principal
Demiurge LLC
After earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Denver in 1999, Joe Riché created Demiurge LLC. Operating since 2000, Demiurge designs, engineers, fabricates, freights and installs monumental scale sculpture and complex architectural projects for artists and designers all over North America, from the company’s production shop based in Denver, Colorado. Riché’s own work has been exhibited in several solo, museum and public art venues throughout his career. In addition, he was a member of the City of Denver’s Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Committee from 2001 to 2014.
David Ross

David Ross

Chair of MFA
School of Visual Arts, New York

David A. Ross has a forty-year career as an art museum professional and educator.  He is currently the chair of the MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Art in New York City. Ross has held curatorial and senior leadership positions at the Everson Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University Art Museum at UC-Berkeley; and directorships at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum, and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was also the co-founder and president of the Artists’ Pension Trust.

Vicki Scuri

Vicki Scuri

Public Artist
SiteWorks
Vicki Scuri passionately promotes community identity and livable public places through Art. Her track record spans over thirty-two years; her work thrives at the intersections of Art with Urban Design, Environment and Infrastructure, bridging gaps between disciplines to create a more meaningful and engaging public realm. Her projects feature symbolic pattern work, the play of sunlight and shadow over sculptural form, and contextual response as iconic forms and inspired public spaces. She excels in design team collaborations with professionals and communities of different backgrounds, promoting dialogue and discovery, and creative solutions to challenging projects.
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Ilene Shaw

President
Shaw & Co! Productions

Shaw has devoted her career to the advocacy of good design. A design marketing consultant who conceived of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Shaw worked closely with GLM Shows in the development of the ICFF and Accent on Design, and leads the New York NOW initiative Sustainability: Design for a Better World through exhibitions and a seminar series. Shaw serves on the board of trustees for DIFFA: The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS and co-founded and is president of Operation Design, a not-for-profit that creates mentorships and creative programs between architects, interior designers, artists, and New York City public school students.

Anne Strainchamps

Anne Strainchamps

Host and Co-Founder
To the Best of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps is an award-winning public radio host and producer who has worked in public broadcasting for more than 30 years, beginning at National Public Radio. She was a founding producer of The Diane Rehm Show at WAMU in Washington, DC -- one of public radio’s most successful live daily call-in shows.  She is the host and co-founder of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Peabody Award-winning interview show and  public radio institution. She also created the Emmy Award-winning essay series, Wisconsin Life.  

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Martha Weidman

CEO
NINE dot ARTS
As CEO and Co-Founder of NINE dot ARTS, Martha oversees business planning, company finances, marketing and sales, and team development. Martha left Alabama at 18 to expand her horizons and graduated from Colorado State University with a dual major – Communications and Fine Arts – to launch her journey. She started her career with Walker Fine Art gallery in Denver, then moved on to the most prestigious art consulting firm (at the time) in the region, McGrath and Braun, from which NINE dot ARTS was born. Martha finds tremendous satisfaction in helping new and emerging artists establish careers.
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Gareth Brennan

CEO, President, and Founder
Eventscape Inc. 

Gareth is the CEO, President and Founder of Eventscape Inc., your partner for the custom fabrication of public art. Since 1993, leading artists, architects, designers and general contractors around the world have utilized Eventscape’s team for large scale complex features. With approximately 150,000 sq. ft. of facilities in Toronto, New York and Detroit and 150 employees they provide a full turnkey service, working with your design to engineer, fabricate and install anywhere in the world. Eventscape’s team operate at the forefront of digital fabrication, working in multiple materials with the latest equipment and technologies and supported by advanced CAD and parametric design software. They “build the extraordinary®”.

Katherine Dirga

Katherine Dirga

Program Manager
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)

Katherine Dirga is an artist and public art specialist with 18 years’ experience. After beginning her career in the arts at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, Katherine served as a manager of Atlanta Airport’s public art program. Katherine was brought to MARTA in 2017 to develop an Art in Transit program: “Artbound”, comprised of permanent and temporary visual artworks as well as live music, theater, and dance presented in a transit environment. Katherine received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, and her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Georgia State University. 

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CODAsummit was an extraordinary experience for me. I have been raving about the programming and the high level of creativity that permeated the entire conference. It may be the best conference that I have ever attended, and I attended four conferences this year,

Vicki Scuri SiteWorks

A heartfelt THANK YOU for creating the space for me in El Paso. I was moved on more than one occasion and came home with a head full of ideas, a wallet full of contacts and a very full heart.

Clive Pohl PRP Architects

Thank you so very much for such an enriching, thought-provoking and inspiring conference experience. We are overwhelmed at the brilliant artistry and generosity of everyone we met. What a brilliant concept, bringing all those involved in art & technology together in one place. A catalyst for incredible collaborations.

Lauren Millar Fusion CI Studios

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