We're looking forward to hosting you at betaworks for an evening of talks and demos by NY's best creative technologists.
James is an artist creative technologists building with AI. He will be presenting Etherea, an interactive film about manifestation
Bill is a member of the technical staff at Legible Labs he'll be demoing MetGuessr, an art recognition game
Ethan is the Founding AI Engineer at Sandbar coming from a background in Art and Technology. He has too many interests and will be sharing his AI-assisted journey to read the world's great works of literature in their original languages (all of them).
Morry is a multimedia artist and viral technology consultant presenting Traffic Cam Photobooth, a website used by hundreds of thousands of people to take selfies with surveillance.
Nolen is a software engineer and game designer from Brooklyn; he'll be talking about a project called One Million Checkboxes and how constrained online experiences produce great stories.
Nick has been building products about sound, music and visual culture for the past 15 years. He'll be presenting his latest and most complex project to date: Oda.
Johanna is an contemporary artist and founder demoing Tangle, an AR app for spatial annotation and poetic encounters
Yufeng is an artist and creative technologist who will be demoing a textual search engine
More demos to be announced. If you would like to demo at the next event please email ripka@betaworks.com
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James Barnes
James Barnes is the co-founder and CTO of Autobiographer, an AI-guided conversational app that helps people discover, preserve, and share their life stories.
James has spent a decade at the intersection of policy and technology, including helping shape the way that Facebook products and social media companies interact with society during two of the most pivotal elections in American history.
Ethan Edwards
Ethan Edwards is a programmer and artist currently based in New York City. His work explores traditional aesthetic themes through interactive and generative structures
Morry Kolman
Nolen Royalty
Nick Dangerfield
Nick Dangerfield builds tools and products about art and technology. He built an idiosyncratic video camera loved by Terrence Malick, Spike Jonze, Harmony Korine, Claire Denis and Pak Chan Wook. And then a little pin-button to release music on, used by Lady Gaga, The xx, Florence andt he Machine and hundreds more. In 2012, he built one of the first open tools for internet art, used by thousands of young artists. Since 2016 he’s focused on sound—building the first spatial sound AR app, digitally re-creating David Bowie’s archive as a VR experience, and building Oda, a new type of music speaker, and a long-form transmission platform designed for deep listening and connection.
Johanna Flato
Johanna (b. San Antonio, TX) is a visual artist and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York. She investigates ways in which our sense of site — and in turn, locational belonging — is mediated and manipulated through language, technology, and gesture.
She is the founder and developer of an augmented reality app called Tangle — a mobile tool for spatial annotation and poetic encounters. Tangle makes site-based, real-time, mixed-reality ideation and collaboration possible. It aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment and seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, and playful dimension.
As an ongoing research thread, Johanna coined and iteratively re-works the notion of a "syn-site" (a term updating Robert Smithson's site/non-site construct for our contemporary extended realities).
Yufeng Zhao
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