The Association of Professional Model Makers Conference was great. My presentation at Pecha Kucha got people interested in my various connections, especially Common Boston. Sapir and Andrzej of The TUTS approached me about getting involved with this year’s Common Boston Festival and expressed interest in my studies as a media and performing arts student at MassArt.
The rest of the conference was exciting with a tour of Hasbro and media-filled Cakemix Studios (I might apply someday), and RISD Architecture, I.D., and Furniture Departments. The Keynote Speaker, Neil Gershenfeld blew us away (video footage by Ian Deleon coming soon). Meeting new colleague model makers, while reacquainting with those I hadn’t seen since the last conference in 2008 was great. And the conference ended with a tour of Harvard’s GSD’s shop, the BRA’s City of Boston model at 1:40 scale, and MIT’s Museum, where we met and talked one-on-one with reknowned New England artist Arthur Ganson, and perused the MIT naval archives.
Possibly most exciting, through meeting Neil Gershenfeld, I met his students, Ilan Moyer (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms), and Natan Linder (MIT Media Lab). I’m investigating starting a relationship between MassArt SIM and MIT’s students. Neil is a huge open info sharing advocate, and hopefully with this attitude, that leaves an open field for collaboration.
Since then… Work has been busy and I’ve been working on my final project for my Flash class. Currently, I’m mentally preparing for an improv performance in class tomorrow. Wish me luck!
