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Collective Creativity

Marc Canter (US)
Mark Federman (CA)
Pierre Lévy (FR)
James McCartney (US)
John Warnock (US)

Brucknerhaus
08.09. 15:00
 
How does software determine our collective creativity? How do the new possibilities of communication influence the exchange of ideas within and among societies? What effects will the new Open Source and Open Standards approaches have on the further development and progress of collective creativity?

Moderation: Mark Federman

15:00 - 15:30 Pierre Lévy "CODE
15:30 - 16:00 John Warnock
16:00 - 16:15 Discussion
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:00 Marc Canter "CODE
17:00 - 17:30 James McCartney "CODE
17:30 - 18:00 Panel and discussion

Marc Canter (USA). Founder of MacroMind, the company that went on to become Macromedia. As such, he was involved in the invention of Director, the world's first multimedia authoring tool. After leaving Macromedia, Marc started Canter Technology in 1992, which focused on developing interactive, scalable and networked multimedia products.

Mark Federman (CDN). Chief Strategist and head of McLuhan Management Studies at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto; Principal of Merrill Consulting

Pierre Lévy (F / CDN) is a philosopher of contemporary virtual culture. The Tunesian-born philosopher is currently working at the Université du Québec in Canada. One of his best known books is "Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace. " Lévy is interested in collective intelligence studied in an anthropological context and is one of today's leading media philosophers.

James McCartney (USA), composer and author of the OO synthesis language SuperCollider.

John Warnock (USA), Co-founder of Adobe Systems; one of the most influential innovators in the field of computer software

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