Future Innovators Group D

Group D: FRI September 5 & SAT September 6, 2014

Yonghun Kim
Yasuaki Kakehi
Angela Oguntala
Anna Clements


Kim Yong Hun (KR)
Kim Yong Hun is an artist who thinks about human nature through exploring how technology develops and how people respond to it. He studied in the Photomedia studio at the Sydney College of the Arts and went on to study at the Graduate School of Culture Technology in the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He has been working with Shin Seung Back as an artist collective, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, since 2012.

Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)
Yasuaki Kakehi received his PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2007. Now he works as an associate professor at Keio University. He developed interactive media integrating human, physical materials and digital information, and created art works based on his own innovative technologies. His works have been presented at media art exhibitions such as SIGGRAPH art gallery and Ars Electronica Festival as well as academic conferences such as ACM CHI and UIST.

Angela Oguntala (US)
Angela Oguntala is an interaction designer living in Copenhagen. She hails from New York and Philadelphia, and is a graduate of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Currently, she is heading up an innovation lab for Danish designer Eskild Hansen, taking on research and exploratory projects. She is also working on a personal project, FamilyDinner, which aims at building a platform for new modes of global to local collaboration. Angela Oguntala is interested in the breadth and depth of our emotional responses in design and technology.

Anna Clements (US) and Hannah Judge (US)
Anna Clements and Hannah Judge attended Middlebury College in Vermont where they studied geography and public health. During their time as undergraduates, they were able to study and work abroad in India, Uganda, and Rwanda. While still students, they founded Broad Street Maps and won both the Schiller Cup for Social Entrepreneurship and the J. Rowland Illick Prize in Geography for their idea. In November 2012, they attended the ITU Telecom World in Bangkok as Finalists in the Young Innovator Competition. Broad Street Maps is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.


You will find all information about the Future Innovators Summit that will take place from September 4th to 7th, 2014, in Linz on ars.electronica.art/c/future-innovators-summit!

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