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Keynotes
Joachim Sauter
Kevin Walker
General Director of the National Museum of Iceland.
Senior Producer of EVE Online, CCP Games, and has worked as 3d modeler, lead artist, and graphics programmer at the company since 1999.
More about our keynote speakers
Professor for "New Media Art and Design" at the University of the Arts, Berlin Adjunct Professor of media design and art at UCLA, Los Angeles Co-founding member and artistic director of ART+COM, Berlin
After completing his MA at the academy of fine arts in Berlin he studied at the 'German Academy for Film and Television', Berlin.
New Media in semi-public and public Spaces
During the last decade, “New” Media have advanced more and more from private into semi public space (museums, theaters, etc.) and finally also in public space. The reasons for this are manifold. People are in the meantime "new" media literate and expecting that information is presented not only in a traditional analog way. The necessary technologies have become cheaper, more easily manageable and more stable and the designers and decision makers are in the meantime better educated and skilled in this field.
The most important quality of new media is interactivity (mutual dialogue between information, experience, narration and the user). By interacting with the space we create ( beside an experience) a higher identification with it because the users changes it through their presents and becomes part of the environment.
In the talk showcases of interactive installations and interactive environments in museums and in public space will be presented.
Researcher at the London Knowledge Lab and exhibit designer.
He undertakes research, design and consultation projects internationally, with more than 12 years of experience designing interactive museums exhibits, including five years as Senior Software Designer for Exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Award-winning exhibits have included the immersive navigation experience in Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, virtual digging and re-creations of Fighting Dinosaurs, and software for exhibits on biodiversity and biology as well as many web sites. Recent work is focused on mobile technologies for Centre Pompidou in Paris and London's V&A Museum and Kew Gardens, plus ongoing research with various Scandinavian collaborators.
Designing experiences inside/out Kevin will show how theory plus technology can inform the design of engaging experiences in museums and outdoors, by focusing on visitors' activity, dialogue and contexts, using mobile, embedded and open-source technologies. An approach drawing from such diverse themes as jazz, horticulture, cooking and modern art can serve to break down the walls of the museum, or construct an invisible support structure out in the wild.
General Director of the National Museum of Iceland.
Margret Hallgrimsdottir is the General Director of the National Museum of Iceland. She finished a Cand. Phil degree in Archaeology and Latin from the University of Stockholm in 1987, a Cand. Mag degree in History from the University of Iceland in 1993 and did doctoral studies in Archaeology at the University of Stockholm 1987 to 1989. Margret was the curator for Arbæjarsafn from 1987 to 1989 and the director of the Reykjavik City Museum until 2000 when she took the position of General Director of the National Museum . Alongside her current job she has done research and teaching in the field of archaeology in Iceland and Sweden as well as written several articles and given lectures on her research, museum work and the promulgation of knowledge on cultural heritage.
Senior Producer of EVE Online, CCP Games, and has worked as 3d modeler, lead artist, and graphics programmer at the company since 1999.
Torfi Frans Ólafsson has been with CCP Games since 1999, wearing many hats as the company has grown from seven people in three rooms to over 180 in three continents. Having worked as 3d modeler, lead artist, and graphics programmer, he now works as Senior Producer of EVE Online. Previously, Torfi was a 3D artist with OZ.com, building virtual worlds. His main work at OZ was on 3d models of Van Gogh's paintings for Intel's Artmuseum.net. Prior, he was the Webmaster and Systems Administrator for Bjork.com at One Little Indian Records, London.
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