Visual arts, film, music, and digital games all share similar DNA, but day to day we often work in our own silos. We believe that through thoughtful collaboration and sharing of resources that we can all accomplish more—artistically and economically.
This session brings together brains from multiple creative fields to discuss how we can advance our respective mediums, together. It will cover topics like [creative processes; team management; project funding; and the impact of online communities on creating, publishing, and selling your art]. Come with questions or with tips and experience to share.
Richie Branson is a music composer and producer who has worked with a variety of notable brands including Marvel Studios and Def Jam Recordings. As a composer, Richie has worked on a multitude of notable projects, including providing additional score for the hit MMORPG Marvel Heroes, and producing soundtrack for the mobile game Mission: G-ROK, backed by Grammy award winning rapper T.I.and legendary music mogul Russell Simmons.
Richie Branson
Evva Kraikul is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of GLITCH. With 5+ years of experience, Evva has already worked alongside over 50 major technology and gaming industry partners such as Microsoft, Blizzard Entertainment, Riot Games, ASUS, Valve Corporation & 3M to develop games, design programming, and launch initiatives. She studied Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Evva Kraikul
Steve Dietz is a serial platform creator. He is the Founder, President, and Artistic Director of Northern Lights.mn, which produces the Twin Cities nuit blanche Northern Spark. He is the former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996, the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. He also co-founded, with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts the award-winning educational site ArtsConnectEd, and the artist community site mnartists.org with the McKnight Foundation. Dietz founded one of the earliest, museum-based, independent new media programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1992.
Steve Dietz
Hunter Jonakin is a multimedia artist and educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He teaches digital processes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and 2D and 3D animation at the University of Minnesota. His work primarily deals with the intersection of the digital world and analog world. He utilizes gaming engines to produce digitally simulated environments, as well as employing various fabrication techniques to build kinetic sculptures, site-specific installations, interactive wearable pieces, among many others. He has shown at Family Business in New York, Xpo Gallery in Paris, the KW Institute of Art in Berlin, and, most recently, at Palazzo Clerici in Milan.
Hunter Jonakin