Exploring Virtual Reality 10:30AM - 11:30AM - Short Sessions Emily Sheehan / Twitter - Dev Advocate Emily (@happycamper) is a Dev Advocate at Twitter supports the developer community using the Twitter API platform and data. She's traveled all over the country learning and teaching all levels of developers who utilize APIs and data to build awesome tools. Passionate about traveling and the music community, she uses Twitter and Periscope to stay connected locally, nationally and globally. Emily will be speaking on Visualizing Realtime: A 100 foot view of visualizing big social data related to alert systems, festivals and how realtime connection helps the user experience. Cody Rutty / Artist Boise-based artist Cody Rutty creates paintings inspired in part by work he creates with computers. By examining structures found in computational models, he draws inspiration from forms and patterns otherwise not found in everyday life. Working deep within a variety of programs and appropriating their visual outputs for art has formed an ongoing relationship between analog and digital forms for the artist as he continues to work on expressing modern life's complexities and emotional ties to technology. Julie Young / Emblematic Group Julie Young is a Producer at Emblematic Group, a virtual reality company based in Los Angeles. She has worked on several room-scale VR pieces including Project Syria (Sundance 2015), Kiya (Sundance 2016), Across the Line (Sundance 2016), and Formula-1 (Singapore Grand Prix 2015). Prior to working at Emblematic Group, Julie was an Associate Producer on the 2012 Frontline documentary Fast Times at West Philly High. She has also worked at Goldman Sachs and The Motley Fool. Julie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied economics at The Wharton School. Sydney Skybetter / Technologist, Choreographer, Writer Sydney Skybetter is a technologist, choreographer, and writer. His dances are regularly performed around the country, most recently at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Boston Center for the Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and the Joyce Theater. As a Founding Partner with the Edwards & Skybetter | Change Agency, he has consulted on issues of change management and technology for The National Ballet of Canada, Barnes & Noble, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. He lectures on everything from dance history to cultural futurism, and is a frequent speaker at Juilliard, Dance/USA, and Opera America. He is a regular contributor to The Clyde Fitch Report, and is an Artist in Residence and Public Humanities Fellow at Brown University, where he researches emerging human computer interfaces within immersive reality systems. He is the founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI), which convenes ethnographers, anthropologists, speculative designers and performing artists to discuss the choreography of the Internet of Things. He produces shows at Joe’s Pub and OBERON with DanceNOW[NYC], recently received a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island, and was the first to get the word “Frack” in print at Dance Magazine. Matthew D Fritz / Vanishing Point - Matthew is a music manager from Los Angeles, CA. Getting his start while in college at the University of Colorado, he got his foot in the door at the Fox Theater and began to manage his friends bands. Upon graduating he went on to work at Red Light Management and with bands like Leftover Salmon and Elephant Revival. He then joined Artifact Concepts and developed the management department of the company and is currently managing Ben Sollee, Jeff Crosby, King Cardinal and Satsang. 11:30AM - 12:30PM - Virtual Reality Panel How VR is Influencing the Tech Industry: This diverse group of panelists will be discussing the varied ways in which virtual reality is influencing the tech industry. This includes industry disruption in dance/choreography/movement, journalism, film, science, gaming and music. Moderator: Sydney Skybetter Panelists: Janessa White / VR Dribble, Jay Saenz / Boise VR Project, Julie Young / Emblematic Group, David Cleverdon/DTX Creative, Matthew D Fritz / Vanishing Point, Ryan Zehm / NurFACE Games

• published: 23 Mar 2016
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