Time: 10:10 – 10:40
Dr. Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher based in Manchester England. Recent projects have been on open data, remote collaboration, new mobilities and environmental mass observation. He is Director and Founder of Read more >
Time: 10:45 – 11:15am
Moritz Stefaner joins the symposium to speak about data for social innovation. Moritz w...
Tom Uglow leads Google’s Creative Lab in Europe, working on new ideas and global brand projects for Google and YouTube such as Life in a Day, Chrome, Art Project, Play, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, Search On, StreetView, Android, and more. He tweets as @tomux, writes two blogs, has appeared on the B...
Scott Snibbe will join the Alpha-ville Symposium remotely to present Björk’s Biophilia – the first app album – and discuss how the emer...
Time: 11:20 – 12:30
Katy Beale is co-founder of Caper, an agency that inspires disruptive thinking and digital innovation, and who run the Culture Hack project. Most recently, she’s worked Royal Academy of Arts, London Word Festival, South London Gallery, Royal Opera House, Crafts Council, Camd...
Time: 11:20am – 12:30pm
Filip Visnjic is an architect, lecturer and a new media technologist born in Belgrade now living in London. He specialises in directing web, new media and architectural projects while also contributing to a number of blogs and magazines about art, design and technology. We all admire Fili...
Time: 1:20 – 2:00pm
Bill Thompson has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984 and spends his time thinking, writing and speaking about the digital world we are in the midst of building. He appears weekly on Click on the BBC World Service, writes a regular column for Focus magazine and is an advisor to a range of arts and cu...
Time: 2:10 – 2:30pm
Digital Manager & Social Media Consultant at Art & Business.
Patrick is digital manager at Arts & Business. Employed to create a social presence from scratch, Arts & Business now has over 10,000 fans and followers spread across Twitter,Linked In, Facebook and various social platforms. This includes one of the ...
Time: 2:10 – 2:30pm
Relationship manager – Digital and Creative Economy, ArtsCouncil London
‘Charles Beckett is the Relationship Manager for Digital and Creative Economy at Arts Council England’s London office. He helps artists and organisations based in London to take advantage of digital technology and contributes t...
Time:14:50 – 15:50
Moderator
Olivia Solon is a writer and editor specialising in technology, science, startups and digital culture. Currently Associate Editor of Read more >
Time: 2:50 – 3:50pm
“The implications of immersive Augmented Reality are far-reaching and could dramatically change the way we construct and occupy urban environments. The internet is in the process of consuming the music and film industries, causing major changes in how these media are created, produced and distribut...
Time: 2:50 – 3:50pm
VP Marketing & Operations at Layar.
Ronald (MScBA) is responsible for marketing at Layar, the world’s largest mobile augmented reality platform with more than 10M installs, 9,000 developers and 2,500 layers. Layar brings impactful augmented reality experiences into people’s everyday lives. The co...
Times: 2:50 – 3:50pm
Times: 2:50 – 3:50pm
Ben Stevenson, creator of the Augmented Reality Cinema concept, is currently running a start-up in stealth-mode at the Design London incubator. Ben has a background in film with work screened at Cannes, the BFI and British Museum. Prior to which he studied Communication, Art & ...
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Alpha-ville is a non-profit organisation exploring the intersection between art, technology and society
1st Alpha-ville Symposium
FROM DIGITAL TO POST-DIGITAL
Time: 9:30am – 4:40pm
This year’s programme addresses the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture, that looks beyond technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participati...
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