Today, storytellers are finding increasingly imaginative ways to share their ideas with interactive and visual elements, bringing their messages to life. Meet three major entrepreneurial players of the field. They will present their work and discuss how limitation can trigger creative opportunities and what the success of these tools and platforms tell about our image culture. Will the future of image-making define itself in these captivating few second artifacts?
Nick Dangerfield, co-founder of ToBe
Sam Cannon, photo and video artist
Erin Joyce, Director of Multi-Platform Content, Showtime
Presented by Studio 55 | @st55nyc.
BIOS
Nick Dangerfield makes books, apps, pin-back buttons that play music, cameras, and a few other things, mostly as a pretext to establish collaborations with artists he admires. He's worked with Daido Moriyama, Jonas Mekas, Mount Eerie, Matmos, Park Chan Wook, Dirty Three, Nick Waplington, Agnès b., Justin Bieber, Bubbles, and Josh Rigling, among many others.
Website: ToBe
Twitter: @to_dot_be
Sam Cannon is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and a digital media artist living in New York City. Cannon's work exploring the innovative space between video and still photography has been bolstered by her significant presence on Tumblr. Through this influence, Cannon has been asked to lend her vision to brands like Gap, Veuve Cliquot, and Nike, as well as an anti-bullying campaign, musician Vic Mensa, and New York Fashion Week.
Website: www.sam-cannon.com
Twitter: @samcannon
Instagram: @samcannon