{"id":6685,"date":"2011-01-20T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2011-01-20T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:06:21","slug":"artstech-meet-up-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/artstech-meet-up-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"#ArtsTech meet-up recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Arts, Culture and Technology<\/a> meet-up – or just ArtsTech as many of its members quickly shout out – is a great meet-up that explores the convergence between arts, culture and well, technology! ArtsTech is a great informal gathering and presentation series – each speaker is given 6 minutes to blaze through as many slides as possible on their company, product or idea. While most things “tech” are pretty overwhelming for some (i.e. MySQL databases, open-source software, GNU licensing, etc.), ArtsTech is also a LOT about contemporary art. Lisa Niedermeyer from Jacob’s Pillow Dance<\/a> gave a great analogy that is perfect to what ArtsTech seeks to support, which is that they are not a technology company – and they’re probably the furthest example from “tech” of all the presenters – however because of events like ArtsTech, and through other collaborations, they’ve come to understand how technology helps move their art forward – technology has improved their dance festivals (downloadable brochures), their online archives (I love archives!) and their education outreach. Brilliant!<\/p>\n

And big ups to the new Pivotal Labs for hosting this first ArtsTech meet-up of the new year – they’re space is super-fresh (only two weeks old!) and they’re already looking to expand their staff and programming – hopefully many more exciting events will be hosted there this year.<\/p>\n

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\nthe new Pivotal Labs<\/a> … lab! in Union Square. Part-production, part-conference, maybe part-coworking I’m not sure, it’s a lovely new space and environment for clients to work from.<\/p>\n

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\nJulia Kaganskiy<\/a> welcoming people, and introducing the meet-up.<\/p>\n

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\nCollectrium<\/a> bills itself as beautiful technology for the art world<\/em> – their main upcoming feature is they have every artwork from all the major art fairs in a database, so with a mobile phone app you can take a picture of that artwork and find more details (meta!) about it online. Pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

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\nTahir Hemphill talked about his hip-hop word count<\/a> – which is currently kickstarting in the hope of going public-beta. Here’s a taste of his arts-tech:
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