Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution

Fabian Hemmert - Tactility in a digital world

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:49:13 GMT

Fabian Hemmert is a Design Researcher concerned with the role of our body in our interactions with technology. During his studies towards an M.A. degree in Interface Design, he worked for Nintendo of Europe and Marvel Comics.

We all know how paper feels and that we interpret things by touching them But how does digital features feel, and how can we better understand "digital materials" to design augmented digital experiences.

An Xiao Mina - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:02:04 GMT

An Xiao Mina is an American artist, designer, writer and technologist. She explores the disruptive power of networked, creative communities in civic life. Dubbing memes the "street art of the internet", she looks at the growing role of meme culture and humor in addressing social and political issues in countries like China, Uganda and the United States.

The shift to imagery and animation as a primary mode of communication on the web is a fun, creative shift from the primacy of text online. It is also having numerous effects on identity, civic engagement and creative expression. In this session we want to look at the broader implications of this shift, and what it can mean for brands, governments, organizations and anyone else working in this space.

An Xiao would like to thank Arda Ibikolgu (Bogazici University) and David Banks (Cyborgology) for sharing their research on memes during the Gezi Park protests and Rosebell Kagumire (rosebellkagumire.com) for her writing on #UgandaIsNotSpain. Source images can be found at www.thecivicbeat.com.

Alexis Ohanian - Lagom is not enough

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:08:31 GMT

Alexis Ohanian is an entrepreneur and investor from Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder of the social news site reddit.

With a proven record of making something people love as the model for success, he will come to The Conference to talk about the importance of giving a damn about the people who are about to use and consume what you create.

Karen McGrane - Future Friendly Web Design

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:38:04 GMT

Karen McGrane, Content strategist at Bond Art + Science, discuss why you need to deliver content wherever your customer wants to consume it — and what the risks are when you don't make content accessible to mobile users.

When it comes to web design, a lot of improvements have been made over the last years. At the same time the number of devices we use to access the web has increased. This means new challenges for designers. How do you make sure that what you design is pretty and useful on all devices – for more than a month?

Brad Frost - Future Friendly Web Design

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:37:43 GMT

Brad Frost, Front-end designer at Future Friendly, is one of the thoughtleaders of responsive web design and will talk about his ideas of future friendly web design.

Golden Krishna - Communication without a Digital Interface

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:36:48 GMT

Golden Krishna speaks about how "The best interface is no interface". Today there is an app for everything, not seldom apps with good intents but that aren't helpful at all. Are we losing sight of the goal of actually solving problems? It's time to think outside the screens and start making true, Good Experience Design.

Golden Krishna is a Senior Designer at Samsung where he specializes in designing things that do not exist today.

Tomonori Kagaya - Communication without a Digital Interface

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:36:39 GMT

Many people believe that the future of interaction is on screens. But what if we can design communication that doesn't involve screens? Tomonori Kagaya, the founder of Neurowear, showcase the world's first commercialized neuro headset that expresses the user's feelings. With this new invention we can truly connect with technology and we will not need a parallel universe to control things with our mind anymore.

Tomonori Kagaya is the founder of Neurowear. A japanese project organization developing emotionalized communication gadgets. Their neuro headset Necomimi was selected as one of the 50 top innovations by TIME Magazine, 2011. Up next is the Neuro headphones that will know your taste in music even better than yourself.

Giorgia Lupi - Big Data - Understand and Visualize

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:35:26 GMT

Giorgia Lupi shares her approach to data-visualization, which can be described as an attempt to make aesthetically beautiful compositions of data, every time, without losing scientific accuracy. In an increasingly complex and networked world, tools for recording, filtering and visualizing data is powering a new breed of storytelling.

Giorgia Lupi is the founder and Design Director at Accurat, an information design agency based in Milan and New York. Accurat analyzes data and contexts and designs analytical tools and visual narratives that provide awareness, comprehension and engagement.

Mike Dewar - Big Data - Understand and Visualize

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:35:11 GMT

Mike Dewar, Data Scientist at The New York Times R&D Lab, will talk about how we can build tools to let us see behavioral phenomena from a heady new perspective with big data and data science.

In an increasingly complex and networked world, tools for recording, filtering and visualising data is powering a new breed of storytelling.

Emily Best - Beyond Crowdfunding

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:34:02 GMT

Emily Best, Founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, will share insights on building social capital, practical tips for crowdfunding, and a vision of the future in which creators, in collaboration with their audiences, can make a living and push their art form further than they ever thought possible.

This session is about how you as a creator can build audiences gradually and thoughtfully throughout your career – to stop thinking about what you make as little siloes but as part of a bigger picture. Learn about how you can build a sustainable relationship with fans that last over a long period of time. Crowdfunding is just one piece of that.

Julia Nunes - Beyond Crowdfunding

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:33:53 GMT

Julia Nunes, Musician, will talk about how she works to connect with her fans and how she uses contemporary crowdfunding tools to ask them for money.

Petra Sundström - Forefront technologies and design thinking

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:02:02 GMT

Petra Sundström is a leading researcher within the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Systems Design. She is Lab Manager for the Crafted Technology and Experiences lab at SICS and Mobile Life. With a background in engineering, and with long experience of multidisciplinary design research, Petra is passionate about forefront technologies combined with creative design thinking.

We all know how paper feels and that we interpret things by touching them But how does digital features feel, and how can we better understand "digital materials" to design augmented digital experiences.

Birgitta Rosén - Tactility in a Digital World

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:56:42 GMT

Birgitta Rosén is an occupational therapist and researcher with with more than 30 years of experience from hand therapy at the department of Hand Surgery Malmö, Lund University.

Sara Bengtsson - How We Learn

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:34:00 GMT

Sara Bengtsson, PhD, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, is doing research which involves developing a neuroscientific model of self-esteem. She uses brain imaging techniques (fMRI), behavioural measures, and mathematical modeling for this purpose. Sara and her group have found that when performing cognitive tasks, it is particularly when we make errors that there is an interaction between the currently active self-image and task performance.

Learning new things is essential for humans. It's both fun and necessary to be part of a fast changing society. Even the Swedish prime minister is talking about the importance of being able to change carrier late in life. Hear from a brain scientist and a Psychologist about how our body and brain learn new things.

Gary Marcus - How We Learn

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:26:10 GMT

Gary Marcus is a Cognitive Scientist at NYU and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero. Co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World's Leading Neuroscientists., he frequently blogs on science and artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

Matt Novak - Thinking 100 Years Ahead

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:07:30 GMT

"In the struggles of the past, we find the better future"

Gizmodo journalist Matt Novak delivers an intriguing speech about the history of tomorrow. Analyzing past visions of the future can tell us a lot about different generations hopes and fears. There is this romantic notion that the future used to be better and that the future ahead is not as bright as in the 1950's Space Age. But fact is, the technical evolution the last century did not just happen out of nowhere. This speech will leave you feeling a bit puzzled but yet optimistic.

Matt Novak writes about past visions of the future for Gizmodo's Paleofuture blog. He started the Paleofuture blog independently in 2007 as a way to explore how the people of yesterday imagined the future.

Åsa Bjerndell - Thinking 100 Years Ahead

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:53:50 GMT

Åsa Bjerndell is an architect, urban planner and partner at White Arkitekter, the office that, together with Norwegian architects Ghilardi + Hellsten, won the international architecture completion to relocate Kiruna.

Kiruna, Sweden's most northerly city, has to be moved! Iron ore has created jobs and prosperity in the city since 1900. But it is also mining that makes it necessary to move most parts of the city to safer ground over the next 100 years. How do you set and envision big change and get people to follow your lead?

Tricia Wang - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:28:09 GMT

Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer who researches how technology makes us human. She advises organizations, corporations, and students on utilizing Digital Age ethnographic research methods to improve strategy, policy, services, and products.

Kenyatta Cheese - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:23:06 GMT

Prepare to fall in love with .gif!

The shift to imagery and animation as a primary mode of communication on the web is a fun, creative shift from the primacy of text online. It is also having numerous effects on identity, civic engagement and creative expression. In this session we want to look at the broader implications of this shift, and what it can mean for brands, governments, organizations and anyone else working in this space.

Kenyatta Cheese is a professional internet enthusiast. He studies the ways that ideas spread through culture. Kenyatta is also the co-founder of Everybody at Once which develops audiences for television, media, and sports. In a past life Kenyatta co-created the internet meme database Know Your Meme.

James Bridle - Naked Lunch

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:07:10 GMT

The world is shaped by new technologies, but perhaps it is shaped more by how we understand those technologies, how they impact our daily lives, and the mental models we have of them. James will talk about architectural visualisation, online literatures, contemporary warfare and contemporary labour, in an attempt to articulate new ways of thinking about the world.

James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist based in London, UK. He exhibits and speaks worldwide on the subjects of literature and technology, networks and culture. In 2011, he coined the term “New Aesthetic”, and his ongoing research around this subject has been featured and discussed worldwide.

Sebastian Posth - Libraries in a Digital Age

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:15:33 GMT

Sebastian Posth is a publisher, consultant and entrepreneur in the publishing industry since 2004. He has a strong focus on digital distribution, ebook retail marketing and data analytics. He is the founder and CEO of Germany’s first ebook distributor and conversion house, Digital Content Distribution Director at arvato media (Bertelsmann), consultant for German and European ebook publishers, intermediaries, retailers and bookstores.

To explore the role of libraries in a digital age, Publit and Axiell has invited five internationally acclaimed experts to a two hour track. The first hour will focus on libraries as a place, elaborating on digitally enhanced buildings, hacker space's and community centres online. The second hour will offer an in-depth analysis of e-lending as a customised service, as opposed to handling physical products.

Richard Nash - Libraries in a Digital Age

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:13:55 GMT

Richard Nash is the VP of Community and Content at Small Demons. In this talk he gives an overview of the commercial response to e-lending and discuss its relation to the library sector.

To explore the role of libraries in a digital age, Publit and Axiell has invited five internationally acclaimed experts to a two hour track. The first hour will focus on libraries as a place, elaborating on digitally enhanced buildings, hacker space's and community centres online. The second hour will offer an in-depth analysis of e-lending as a customised service, as opposed to handling physical products.

Louise Overgaard - Libraries in a Digital Age

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:12:07 GMT

Louise Overgaard is the Team Manager at The Maker Library at The Aarhus Library. By constantly involving users and partners and by focusing on constant development, the library in Aarhus is transforming itself from a place for books to a place for relations. The Maker Library is focusing on informal learning processes and collaborative, user-driven innovation.

To explore the role of libraries in a digital age, Publit and Axiell has invited five internationally acclaimed experts to a two hour track. The first hour will focus on libraries as a place, elaborating on digitally enhanced buildings, hacker space's and community centres online. The second hour will offer an in-depth analysis of e-lending as a customised service, as opposed to handling physical products.

Kate Pullinger - Libraries in a Digital Age

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:11:03 GMT

Kate Pullinger writes novels, short stories, and digital fiction – works that combine text with image, sound, animation, video, music, and other media. Her most recent books include her collected short stories A Curious Dream, 2011, and the novel The Mistress of Nothing, which won Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2009.

To explore the role of libraries in a digital age, Publit and Axiell has invited five internationally acclaimed experts to a two hour track. The first hour will focus on libraries as a place, elaborating on digitally enhanced buildings, hacker space's and community centres online. The second hour will offer an in-depth analysis of e-lending as a customised service, as opposed to handling physical products.

Javier Celaya - Libraries in a Digital Age

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:10:05 GMT

Javier Celaya is the vice president of the Spanish Digital Magazines Association (ARDE), member of the Executive Board of the Digital Economy Association of Spain and CEO and founder of Dosdoce.com, an online portal analyses the use of the new technologies in the cultural sector.

To explore the role of libraries in a digital age, Publit and Axiell has invited five internationally acclaimed experts to a two hour track. The first hour will focus on libraries as a place, elaborating on digitally enhanced buildings, hacker space's and community centres online. The second hour will offer an in-depth analysis of e-lending as a customised service, as opposed to handling physical products.

Teresa Belton - Being Bored, But Never Being Boring

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:05:49 GMT

Teresa is an Educational researcher, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK. Her interest in imagination began in the 1990’s when she was involved in Play for Life, a small UK voluntary organisation set up to stimulate fresh thinking about what kinds of play nurture children’s emotional, social, cultural and spiritual development. This led to her researching the influence of television and videos on children’s story-making.

When were you last bored? Overstimulated as we are, it rarely happens. But what if boredom is important to stimulate creativity? What if we can create "in-between" space to be more creative and better leverage the brain's natural creative capacities?

Denise R. Jacobs - Being Bored, But Never Being Boring

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:04:50 GMT

Denise R. Jacobs is a speaker and author who consults with companies teaching techniques to make the creative process more fluid. Working in Web Design since 1997, she is an industry veteran and regarded expert on many things web. She is the author of The CSS Detective Guide, and co-authored the Smashing Book #3 and Interact with Web Standards.

When were you last bored? Overstimulated as we are, it rarely happens. But what if boredom is important to stimulate creativity? What if we can create "in-between" space to be more creative and better leverage the brain's natural creative capacities?

Martin Källström - Wearable Technology

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:01:27 GMT

Martin is the founder and CEO of Memoto. He is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist, thinker and tinkerer. The past decade was a period of transformation for him. Since both his parents passed away in cancer and his two daughters came into his life, he realized how much value there is in the small everyday moments that ties our lives together.

Technology is by now an essential part of our lives. The trend is clear, it's getting closer to our bodies. The quantified self-trend has been thriving for some years, but what happens if the technology we carry goes from measuring to documenting and enhancing our sense in real time? How will this new technology be adopted, and will we eventually become cyborgs?

Millie Clive-Smith - Wearable Technology

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:00:41 GMT

Millie is part of the team behind Eidos, a project exploring sensory augmentation technologies. She will discuss the evolution of Eidos and how we can think beyond today's wearable devices and AR to a future where technology will be used to directly enhance the human body.

Technology is by now an essential part of our lives. The trend is clear, it's getting closer to our bodies. The quantified self-trend has been thriving for some years, but what happens if the technology we carry goes from measuring to documenting and enhancing our sense in real time? How will this new technology be adopted, and will we eventually become cyborgs?

Anita Sarkeesian - Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:58:34 GMT

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. Media critic Anita Sarkeesian illustrates the gamification of online harassment through her own experience of being the target of a rigid and violent hate campaign. Important subject and a must see!

Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of video blog Feminist Frequency. Her 2012 serie Tropes vs. Women in Video Games triggered a massive online harassment campaign and she became center of attention in the media discussion about the subject.

Laurie Penny - Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:57:41 GMT

Laurie Penny is a journalist, author and Contributing Editor at New Statesman magazine. She has written for The Guardian, Vice, Salon, The Nation and many others, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2010 and is a commentator on radical politics, feminism, pop culture and protest.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Kate Miltner - Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:56:46 GMT

Kate Miltner is an internet researcher whose interests focus on online behavior and networked cultures. She received her MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics in 2011, and most recently has worked as a Research Consultant for Microsoft Research New England.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions - Q&A

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:55:44 GMT

Kate Miltner, Anita Sarkeesian and Laurie Penny discuss online harassment.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Henrik Berggren - Media Consumption Online

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:54:07 GMT

Henrik Berggren is a Swedish entrepreneur that relocated to Berlin to build Readmill – a digital reading platform for e-books. Readmill lets readers store all of their ebooks in one place, enjoy books in one of the best readers on iOS and share their favorite parts with friends.

We all listen, read, play and watch media on a daily basis. But how do we actually behave while doing it. In this session the speakers will try to paint a picture from the data they have as platforms or content creators. How much time do we spend with each content and how long does it live on for.

Alex Dale - Media Consumption Online

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:50:41 GMT

Alex Dale is the Chief Marketing Officer at King. Prior to King, Alex was in charge of the Microsoft consumer and online business in Eastern Europe. And before that, he was the founder and MD of UK broadband ISP, virgin.net. He started work in TV production at the BBC.

We all listen, read, play and watch media on a daily basis. But how do we actually behave while doing it. In this session the speakers will try to paint a picture from the data they have as platforms or content creators. How much time do we spend with each content and how long does it live on.

Fabian Stelzer - Lean Marketing and Growth Hacking

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:27:00 GMT

Fabian Stelzer, Co-founder at EyeQuant, will introduce the importance of testing one's design intuitions with new tools and ask the question: What do neuroscientists and Piet Mondriaan know about capturing attention that the rest of us may not?

Growth hacking, or lean marketing, is a set of tactics and best practices for getting people to use what you are creating. It’s about having a sense of design, human behavior on the internet and technology, and to feed what you learn to the developing processes of a product or service.

Lina Thomsgård - Change Making

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:41 GMT

Lina Thomsgård, Founder of Rättviseförmedlingen, will talk about how more than 50 000 people on social media have worked together to make a real change for gender equality in Swedish media.

Let’s acknowledge that what we all do can actually make a better world. You can set the agenda for events bigger than your everyday life. All people, from all fields, have the power to make an impact – a techie just as much as a truck driver.

Marcin De Kaminski - Change Making

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:35 GMT

Marcin De Kaminski, Internet researcher at Lund University, will present the outlines of hacktivism, policy hacking and how to change society by the use of progressive technologies. In a world of technology, we need to hack it all.

Ruth Daniel - Do it Together

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:23 GMT

Ruth Daniel, Co-founder of Un-Convention, will talk about how we can "Do It Together" and how alternative economies can be created without having economic gain as a key driver.

The "Do it Yourself" movement is one of the strongest cultural powers we have. It is becoming stronger as all sort of tools are becoming cheaper and more evenly distributed. But over the last decade these tools have been complemented by ways of accomplish great tasks together.

Ariel Waldman - Do it Together

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:25:06 GMT

Ariel Waldman, Founder of Spacehack.org and global instigator of Science Hack Day, will speak about what we can accomplish when we open tools that are available to everyone.

The "Do it Yourself" movement is one of the strongest cultural powers we have. It is becoming stronger as all sort of tools are becoming cheaper and more evenly distributed. But over the last decade these tools have been complemented by ways of accomplish great tasks together.

Peter Sunde - Dark Side of Innovation

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:47:33 GMT

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, will share is thoughts on how he and file sharing site innovated our contemporary media landscape and what we all can learn from that.

What do pirates, computer hackers and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation.

Cindy Gallop

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:55:33 GMT

Cindy Gallop, the founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn, offers some provocative, challenging and highly subjective views on how to redesign the future of business; the power shift from the old world order model to the new; the lies we tell ourselves around the most fundamental aspect of human behavior, our sexuality; and why disruption is so critically important in the only gigantic billion-dollar sector nobody in the tech world ever encourages you to disrupt.

You can change the world in more profound ways than you ever thought possible, by changing what you do in the office, and what you do in bed. Cindy Gallop will talk about changing the world through business and sex.

Suzannah Lipscomb - Opening keynote

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:41:45 GMT

Suzannah Lipscomb is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities. She also holds a post as Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.

Suzannah will open The Conference by looking back. She will talk about what we can and can not learn from the past.

As a Scholar, Suzannah took a double first in her BA and a distinction in her Masters, both in History at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 2007-2010, Suzannah was Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace. She is now a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces and an External Advisory Member on their Research Strategy Board.