Reinventing Creative Tools
Maker Faire Bay Area 2017
May 19th-21st
Kickstarter’s mission is to help bring creative projects to life, and many design and technology campaigns share this philosophy. We'll chat with the creators behind NeoLucida and Maslow about their explorations in reinventing classic creative tools, and the communities they’ve built around them.
Zach Dunham
Zach Dunham is Kickstarter’s design and technology communities outreach lead. Based out of NYC, he helps creators across these two diverse categories to launch their projects, and find their voice on Kickstarter. Zach is also a creative technologist with a focus on acoustics and music; the co-creator of The Public Radio; and an alumni of the School For Poetic Computation and Bard College.
Pablo Garcia
Pablo Garcia is a research artist and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through internationally exhibited artworks, design projects, lectures and writings, he examines media tools and methods throughout history and their modern-day descendants.
http://neolucida.com/
Bar Smith
Bar Smith grew up in the San Francisco bay area and studied Electrical Engineering at the University Of California Santa Cruz. Since graduating Bar has worked as Director of Engineering for a biotech startup, traveled around South America, and run two successful Kickstarter campaigns for unique and affordable CNC Routers.
http://www.maslowcnc.com/
