CODAsummit NFT
CODAsummit NFT
March 29 – 31, 2023 Dania Beach, FL
Featured Speakers
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Refik Anadol
The leading pioneer of the new field of AI and art, Refik Anadol was born in Istanbul, and now lives and works in Los Angeles, where he operates Refik Anadol Studio.
Anadol's work often explores the intersection of technology, data, and the built environment, and he has been recognized for his innovative use of machine learning and other advanced technologies in his projects. His largest project to date is "The Space Between Dreams and Reality," an installation that used machine learning algorithms to analyze the architecture of the Los Angeles Central Library and create a visual representation of the building's "memory." The installation was displayed on the library's exterior walls and featured constantly changing patterns and imagery. Anadol also created a limited edition NFT of the installation, which was sold at auction. The NFT included a digital version of the installation, as well as a physical component that was a 3D-printed model of the library.
Refik Anadol
Founder, Refik Anadol Studio
Ronnie K. Pirovino
Ronnie K. Pirovino
Kent Charugundla
Kent Charugundla is a serial entrepreneur, fine-art collector, telecom executive, and tech investor who continues to be at the forefront of technology and emerging media art. He has been collecting fine art for more than 2 decades; his collection includes fine-art and PFP NFTs, paintings, video installations, photographs, sculptures, posters, and works on paper. As a tech entrepreneur he has over a dozen patents and multiple exits. Kent continues to be an integral part of the community as an investor, talent supplier for blockchain/web3/metaverse related ventures, producer of NFTs for artists, and entrepreneur. In addition to his IT companies, he serves as a Managing Member of Tamarind Art Gallery in NYC, which publishes, collects, and manages IP rights for many of its artists. Some of his art collection has been exhibited in Guggenheim NYC, Guggenheim Venice, and Asia Society museums in New York City. He is passionate about collecting art and supporting the art ecosystem.
Kent Charugundla
Web3 Fine Art Collector
Roger Dickerman
Roger Dickerman
Founder, Artifex
Ana Maria Caballero
Poet, Artist, Cofounder of theVERSEverse
Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American poet and artist. Her verse explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package female sacrifice as a virtue. She’s the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Mammal, her fourth book, was a semi-finalist for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and named a Manuscript of Exceptional Merit by Tupelo Press. Her Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominated work has been widely published and exhibited internationally, most recently at Gazelli Art House, L’Avant Galerie Vossen and VellumLA. Recognized as a digital poetry pioneer, she performs at cultural events around the world. As a cofounder of digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse, she’s pushing the boundaries, as an artist and as a curator, of how poetry is exhibited, experienced and valued. anamariacaballero.com
Ana Maria Caballero
Poet, Artist, Cofounder, theVERSEverse
Phil Dunlap
Director, Broward County Cultural Division
Phillip Dunlap, the Director of Broward County’s Cultural Division, is responsible for leading the County’s local arts agency with an annual budget of approximately $10 million. The Division’s primary functions include developing and strengthening arts and cultural organizations and individual artists through its grantmaking programs and marketing initiatives. The Division also delivers community engagement, events, cultural heritage tourism, advocacy, public art and conservation, and cultural planning for the County.
Prior to moving to South Florida in May 2019, he served as Director of Education and Community Engagement for Jazz St. Louis where he also served on the executive board of Missouri Citizens for the Arts and in 2018 was recognized by the Missouri House of Representatives for his service in the arts in Missouri.
Phillip has also served as adjunct professor at the University of Missouri St. Louis, Webster University, and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he taught Jazz History and Music Business. In 2011 he was named “30 under 30” by the St. Louis Business Journal and is a 2014 graduate of the Community Arts Education Leadership Institute through the National Guild for Community Arts Education. He has served as a Cultural Envoy for the US Department of State and has taught and performed in Afghanistan, Guyana, and Thailand. He currently serves on the board of Jazz Education Abroad, an international jazz education NGO.
He holds a Bachelor of Music in jazz performance (piano), a Bachelor of Music in musictheory/composition and a Master of Music in jazz performance from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Phil Dunlap
Director, Broward County’s Cultural Division
Paul England
Paul England is the director of design solutions at SNA Displays. He has been in the LED display industry for 10 years and worked for Canon and Hewlett-Packard in previous careers. In his role at SNA Displays, Paul works with architects, designers, content creators, consultants, and others on various applications and display technology solutions. He also supports the company’s sales teams and Channel Partner program.
Paul England
Director, Design Solutions, SNA Displays
Maria Finkelmeier
Named a “one-woman dynamo” by the Boston Globe, and Boston’s Best 2018 "Creative Catalyst” by the Improper Bostonian, Maria is a percussionist, composer, educator, and public artist. Whether it’s scoring conceptual art films, creating dance beats out of sourced audio samples from everyday urban life, to serving as both director and performer in multi-sensory productions, her work continually transcends both genre and medium.
Empowered by sonic exploration, Maria has created and directed large-scale multimedia events and installations in public spaces from Cincinnati to Northern Sweden, with several locations in Greater Boston, including Fenway Park, DCR’s Hatch Shell, Charlestown Navy Yard, Edison Power Plant, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, the Goethe Institute, and Frost Ice Bar. She’s composed evening length immersive performance works, created entire projects from found, non-traditional sounds, and transformed iconic structures into percussive playgrounds. She’s been commissioned by the National Parks Service, BLINK Cincinnati, the Esplanade Association, Harvard Ed Portal, TEDx Cambridge, London’s i = u festival, New Gallery Concert Series, the Illuminus Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, and more.
Finkelmeier’s cutting-edge work has been featured in the Boston Globe, National Parks Magazine, Boston Magazine, Vulture, and on WGBH, WBUR, CBS Boston, and Cincinnati Public Radio. It has been supported and acknowledged by the Boston Foundation, CODAWorx, Boston Design Week, New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Brother Thomas Fellowship.
An experienced entrepreneur, Maria has founded and directed numerous ventures, including the experimental studio MF Dynamics, Kadence Arts, Make Music Boston, Quartet Kalos, Masary Studios, and Ensemble Evolution. Dedicated to shaping the next generation of creators and arts administrators, she is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and from 2012 - 2015 served as the program manager of the Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at New England Conservatory. Prior to rooting in New England, Maria spent three years in Northern Sweden at the Piteå Institution for Music and Media as an artist-in-residence.
Maria Finkelmeier
Founder, MF Dynamics
Sammetria Goodson
Sammetria is an Attorney who works with artists, agencies, collectors, consultants, curators, designers, galleries, makers, arts organizations, cultural institutions, storytellers, and multidisciplinary creatives. She focuses her practice on copyright, trademark, business formation, contracts/transactional work, licensing, entertainment-related contracts, outside general counsel services, Art Law, Fashion Law, New Media & Design Law, and Entertainment Law. She brings her experience in corporate marketing and sales, a robust judicial clerkship, heavy litigation practice, and transactional work with creatives to her practice at Goodson Law.
Sammetria holds a BBA in Marketing from the McCombs School of Business and a BA in Art History from the College of Fine Arts - both from The University of Texas at Austin. She’s also a proud graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia.
Sammetria loves talking about the intersection of law, art, and design. She’s a frequent lecturer on the topics of Art Law, and best business practices for Creatives, Artists, and Designers. She currently teaches an anti-starving artist course at UT Austin, College of Fine Arts. Sammetria was recently awarded an Arts Education Award from the Dallas Business Council for the Arts for her community arts education work. An article co-authored by Sammetria discussing Art and Private Investment will be published the second quarter of 2023. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and Pennsylvania.
Sammetria Goodson
Founder & Managing Attorney, Goodson Law
Marjorie Guyon
Layers of history and time are a constant in the work of Marjorie Guyon. One of the hallmarks of Guyon’s work is that the image at once emerges from yet disappears into what appears to be an ancient surface. Yet, she also seems to be lighting the path of time. It may well be the dynamic between the two impulses that gives her haunting images their appeal. To build her compositions, she works in collage and applies marble dust and pigment - earth from all over the world to create an archeology of the soul. Her work is at once both contemporary and ancient - a blend of mythology and graffiti.
Born in NY, Guyon’s work and public projects appear in public and private collections across the United States. Her decades long standing gallery affiliations with George N’Namdi and David Lusk placed her work with collectors and institutions across the country. In 2009, she began a pivot into public projects – moving from the private space of the gallery to the public space of the street.
Urbandesign.org defines Civic Art as the sum total of the architecture, public spaces, monuments, urban design, and landscape of a city, but it is far more than the sum of the parts. Civic Art is place making into art that creates timeless civic values and helps define cultures. Guyon's projects integrate the transcendent experience of art into the everyday business of living - reminding us of all of the power we have to transform the world.
Marjorie Guyon
Artist, i was here
Tam Gryn
Chief Curator & Head of NFT Strategy, Yes We Are Mad
Tam Gryn is an Art Curator originally from Venezuela. She is the former Director of Fine Arts at Rally.io, where she helped artistic communities create their own autonomous crypto economies. She is also Head Curator at SHOWFIELDS, contributor to the BanklessDAO and Friends With Benefits and has lectured at Harvard Business School and The New York Academy of The Arts. She is the former Head of the Curatorial Department of the Artist Pension Trust as well as Head Curator for RAW POP UP. Tam has curated multiple art exhibitions as well as charity fundraisers. Clients and collaborators include The Brooklyn Museum, The Whitney Museum, UTA, Glossier, Heineken, Evian, Mastercard, and SVA School of Visual Arts NYC. Tam studied Art History at the Sorbonne University, Politics at Reichman University and Negotiation at Tel Aviv University.
Tam Gryn
Author and Curator, CODAMADE
Roy Husdell
Formerly the youngest Executive Creative Director at McCann WorldGroup, then Digital Creative Director for the London Olympic Games, Husdell has spent most of his career working internationally with some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies around, utilizing his entrepreneurial spirit and obsessive streak for emerging technologies.
Roy Husdell
Creative Director, Mad Labs
Joshua Lida, Esq.
Josh Lida is the Founder of Twig, Trade and Tribunal, and focuses his practice on art law in the areas of art transactions, intellectual property, Web3 contracts and all other facets of art law. He is an experienced counsellor in cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
Josh Lida
Director of Art & Business Law, Twig, Trade, & Tribunal
Joe O'Connell
President, Creative Machines
Joseph O'Connell is the founder and artistic director of Creative Machines - one of the world’s largest design and fabrication facilities led by a single artist. Creative Machines is known for their pedestrian-scale public art involving light, motion and interactivity. Their current work includes art for off-grid locations inspired by paleo-anthropology as well as the design of urban entertainment districts in cities across the US.
Joe O'Connell
President, Creative Machines
Ilene Shaw
Ilene Shaw has devoted her career to the advocacy of good design. A design marketing consultant who conceived of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Shaw worked closely with its show management in its development, and that of Accent on Design. She leads NY NOW’s green initiative, Sustainability: Design for a Better World. Shaw serves as a founding member of the NYCxDESIGN Steering Committee, New York City’s official design week, during which Shaw produces Design Pavilion, a 9-day cultural public event intended to increase awareness of the power of design, and NYC Design Talks, offering inspired topics by today’s most insightful design thinkers. Shaw serves on the board of trustees for DIFFA: The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS and co-founded Operation Design, creating mentorships and creative programs between architects, designers, artists and NYC public schools.
Ilene Shaw
Interim Executive Director, NYCxDESIGN
Tim Sinnaeve
Tim Sinnaeve (°1971) is responsible for Barco’s Digital Canvas strategy, where he sees his mission as creating Architectural Digital Canvases that enable the most immersive entertainment and cultural experiences in commercial and residential spaces. He has been particularly passionate about digital and new media art and has written and spoken extensively about the subject.
Since joining Barco in 2007, Tim was closely involved in the Digital Cinema conversion from 35mm to Digital, and subsequently started and managed the Barco Residential business unit. He has a broad international experience and has lived and worked in Belgium, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, Australia and Canada. He holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics from Erasmus University College, Brussels (Belgium) and a Master’s Degree in International Law & Politics from the University of Hull (United Kingdom). Tim joined Barco in 2007 and is currently based in Atlanta, GA.
About Barco
Barco is a global technology leader that develops networked visualization solutions for the entertainment, enterprise, and healthcare markets. Our solutions make a visible impact, allowing people to enjoy compelling entertainment experiences; to foster knowledge sharing and smart decision-making in organizations and to help hospitals provide their patients with the best possible healthcare.
Headquartered in Kortrijk (Belgium), Barco realized sales of 804 million euro in 2021 and has a global team of 3,000+ employees, whose passion for technology is captured in +500 granted patents. Barco has been listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1985. (Euronext: BAR; Reuters: BARBt.BR; Bloomberg: BAR BB)
For more information, visit us on www.barco.com, follow us on Twitter (@Barco), LinkedIn (Barco), YouTube (BarcoTV), Instagram (barco_nv) or like us on Facebook (Barco).
Tim Sinnaeve
Director, Digital Canvas, Barco
Spencer X Smith
After starting his career at IBM during the Y2K days, Spencer X Smith has always been an early adopter of new technology so he can better teach others what he’s learned. He’s given over 300 in-person speeches, including presentations at the New York Stock Exchange, Gillette Stadium in Boston, and The Superdome in New Orleans.
Through his company AmpliPhi Digital, Spencer has both consulted with and invested in myriad companies across Web3 technologies, including blockchain construction company DigiBuild, currency exchange Kraken, metaverse NFT fund Republic Realm, and hundreds of NFT projects, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Spencer X Smith
Founder, AmpliPhi Digital
Elijah Tuuri
Elijah is an internationally recognized futurist and innovator with projects that have been featured in the WSJ, and Forbes. He was invited to the White House Upskill America Summit and a featured speaker at the Institute For The Future's, Future 50 Summit. His first foray into blockchain technology started in 2016 as part of Daimler's global innovation group. He's currently the head of innovation and metaverse strategy for the Verizon Value Segment and a co-founder of MADNFT and CODAMADE.
Elijah Tuuri
Chief Innovation Officer, CODAMADE
Cory Van Lew
Cory Van Lew (b. 1990, based in Miami) is a visual artist known for his particular use of bright color to invoke positivity with good intentions. Pulling from moments in his life, Van Lew uses his “Theory of Transmission” to communicate and create works of art. Since entering Web3, Cory has collaborated with Disney, RTFKT Studios/Nike, Mike Tyson, iHeart Radio, and TIME, and has minted on platforms such as OneOf, SuperRare, and Nifty Gateway. In 2021, a physical/digital sale of his work at Sotheby’s achieved a record sum of almost $200k USD for a NFT and physical painting. Part of the inaugural NFT Now 100, Cory’s work is in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Upcoming projects include his City of Miami NFT collection, which explores the light, color, and architecture of his newfound home, as well as an experiential installation collaboration with Yes We Are Mad Labs.
Cory Van Lew
NFT Artist
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