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Barry Cole

Barry Cole

threshold of where music meets media. SPOT Music is an independent music supervision and technology consulting firm with more than 80 film credits, including “Sling Blade”, “American Psycho”, “Super Troopers”, “Drumline” and “Notorious”. Cole produced and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album and is a 2013 Grammy Nominee in Category 59 “Best Compilation for Visual Media”. Cole can also be found at the working to build a bridge between music and technology to empower artists and content managers in the digital space.  He is a member of the Advisory Board for MonkeyBars.net, a digital content platform allowing Musicians, Filmmakers and Authors to upload and price their own content.  Cole develops content and community for Dubspot.com (the leader in Electronic Music Education) and was recently featured on the Forbes.com blog discussing his new digital publishing company, Dub Fiction.  Dub Fiction is a Trans-Media company that creates “Enhanced Graphic Novels” (EGNs) which mix Graphics, Video, Music and Augmented Reality to give readers a new experience on and off the page....

Tyler Freeman

Tyler Freeman

Tyler Freeman is an artist who specializes in designing interfaces that bring the body closer to the machine, thus enhancing the user’s ability to manipulate digital information efficiently and unobtrusively — some people refer to these users as cyborgs, but the phenomenon is so rampant in today’s world that the word cyborg really loses all meaning. Tyler received his undergrad degree in Computer Science and his Master’s in Digital Art and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. He is an active VJ who has played for numerous bands and acts throughout the United States and Europe, and has invented several performance interfaces such as DrumPants, the VJacket, and WiiJ Video. His various interactive video installations and photographic works have been featured in galleries, museums, magazines and festivals around the world. Highlights include: List of shows and installations available at http://odbol.com/ Tyler has also published several papers about wearable instruments and VJing in the ISEA and ACM conferences, as well as co-authored chapters in a book about art education labs for underprivileged youths....

Miho Tanaka

Miho Tanaka

Miho first began creating mobile apps for HIT Lab NZ (commercial dept, now called Motim Technologies) back in the day when Nokia phones was the most prevalent smartphone. As Lead concepter, she designed showcase apps to demonstrate the full potential of AR on mobile devices. She then worked as Senior Digital Strategist and Concepter at KKLD (ad agency): introducing new technologies and creating digital communication strategies for global brands such as BMW, MINI, and Bayer. AirMarkr has so far won 3rd prize at a Startup Weekend competition, and finalist at HY! Berlin (an international startup competition where MG Siegler, Om Malik, Esther Dyson and Paul Singh were part of the judging panel) Prior to this Miho has won International awards for advertising and digital campaigns such as the Epica, Echo and John Caples Awards....

Dustin Harris

Dustin Harris

Dustin Harris recently completed his MS in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech. He is interested in augmented reality as means of uncovering more information about the world around us in an unobtrusive way. He is also interested in how urban data collection can enable new augmented reality experiences. He currently works as a Program Manager at Microsoft....

NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University), is a comprehensive school of engineering, applied sciences, technology and research, and is rooted in a 158-year tradition of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship: i2e. The institution, founded in 1854, is the nation’s second-oldest private engineering school. In addition to its main campus in New York City at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn, it also offers programs at sites throughout the region, around the globe and remotely through NYUe-Poly. NYU-Poly is an integral part of NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai and the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in downtown Brooklyn. http://www.poly.edu/...

Ina Yosun Chang

Ina Yosun Chang

What happens when you have a grad student’s worth of theoretical physics and math, a decade and a half of programming experience, and a penchant for disappearing off the grid, in year-long virtual environment immersion self-reflective studies? You try to make it all real by augmenting reality, with the goal being able to create at the speed of thought, anywhere you go. So far this year, Ina Yosun Chang has been hacking together a new mobile 3D augmented reality app every single week(end) — independently-minded and independently-funded through odd projects from Prototype48.com — check out some of her projects demo’s in the expo hall and maybe also in some sessions! Company: PettyAR http://hacks.yosun.me ...

Ean Mering

Ean Mering

As a child, Ean found identity, expression and escape through street art and video games. Though local law enforcement eventually deterred him from graffiti, the themes of art and technology have pervaded his adult life. After attending the California Institute of the Arts, Ean started his own digital media company to provide creative services for clients including Universal Music Group. Ean has recently served as partner and Chief Production Officer at a New York based creative agency and lead a team to perform work for enterprise clients such as Google, YouTube, and Bosch. However, it is his collaboration with Re+Public and the Heavy Projects that most strongly connects with his lifelong passion of bringing impossible structures and fantasy environments to life in the real world....

Mark Skwarek

Mark Skwarek

Mark Skwarek is a new media artist working to bridge the gap between virtual reality and the real world by using augmented reality technology. He is one of the founding members of the artist augmented reality group manifest.AR. Skwarek earned his M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design’s Digital Media Department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University Polytech, where he is also a researcher in residence. Reviews of his artwork have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Boing Boing, WIRED, the Boston Globe, and Leonardo. Skwarek has exhibited in various venues, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ISEA; the CyberArts Festival; the Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois....