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REIMAGINE is the one event that no artist can afford to miss. You can’t beat the quality of the content, the strong community, as well as the experts that we are bringing to you.
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REIMAGINE design conference is an event for artists, performers, designers, and all creatives to gather and discuss more about the future of art and de sign after the global pandemic. Further exploring how new-normal-art means to the community and strengthens their ties together. Moreover, during the four days of the conference, you’ll get endless opportunities to learn about the newest industry trends and get to a network with industry leaders. It is an opportunity for the creatives to be inspired, equipped, and be empowered in order to thrive in the new-normal art world.
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GINEIMAIMA CONTENT Conference Schedule Keynote _ Susan Kare Workshop “How to Leverage Digital Tools to Improve Community Journey after COVID.” Welcome ModeratorLetterandContact17151311070502 Discussion “Creating art that promotes the different measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.” Article The Drawing Cure
CONFERENCE THURS FRI 09 - 10AM 10 - 11AM 11 - 12PM 12 - 01PM 09 - 10AM 10 - 11AM 11- 12PM 12 - 02PM OverviewWelcomeRegistrationand Coffee Break “What is The Role of Art in This Time of Crisis and Isolation?” WorkshopRegistration How to Enhance Consumer Expe rience in a Digital Economy. Brunch Presentation How to Achieve COVID Patient Centricity Through Art and Design. STEVEN BEX 02 - 04PM SUSAN KARE “How COVID-19 is Shaping The Art World?” 5
SCHEDULE SAT SUN 09 - 10AM 10 - 11AM 11- 12PM 02 - 03PM PresentationRegistration Create Art That Promotes The Dif ferent Measures to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19. Brunch TalkInspiration How to Engage Youth in The Art Community. 09 - 10AM 11- 12PM Registration Brunch Closing01 - 02PM“How to Lever age Digital Tools to Improve Com munity Journey after COVID.” 12 - 01PM WORKSHOP “The Drawing Cure” 12 - 01PM DAVID LANE 6
Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her tributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was a design Pictures, and Facebook, Pinterest and Labs. In 2001, Susan Kare received the prestigious Chrysler Award. This award is given to people who have “influential on modern American culture” through design, and became one of the most influence’rs female Grpahic Designer.
SPEAKERKEYNOTE WESTSIDE BALLROOM MAY 20 - 3PM
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ISCOVID-19HOWSHAPING THE ART WORLD
This is a time to value the arts. Whether big or small, sidewalk chalk art or com munity murals, art makes a difference in how we live our lives. The arts create wellness in our day-today lives by helping us process our lives individually and allowing us to come together collectively. Art allows us to communicate from afar, generating positivity, appreciation and hope during COVID-19. In times of social injustice and unrest, art amplifies important voices and messages. Art is an expression of what it means to be human Art-making and viewing art allows us to process our experiences. Art helps us to express and to understand the world around us. We are unique in our human drive to create and engage with the arts. Histor ically, humans have been visually ex pressive beings. The cave of the hands, Cueva de las Manos, in Argentina is an example of early visual expression. The artwork in the cave carbon-dates
Art allows us to examine what it means to be human, to voice and express, and to bring people and ideas together As we rise to the challenge of our new normal of life in a global pandemic, we are seeing more clearly what needs to change in our pre-COVID-19 society. We are still experiencing a global pandemic. We are engaging with racial injustice made more visible with George Floyd’s death and the recent protests across the globe. In times of crisis, we need humanity, expression, and the community that the arts create. In the United States and around the world, COVID-19 has shed light on our economic, social, and political systems. We are seeing how systemic racial inequality is putting people of color at a higher risk during the pandemic. We are realizing the economic implications of relying on minimum wage “essential” jobs. We are seeing disease become po liticized. And, we are seeing a growing mental health crisis as a response to WhatCOVID-19.weput our energy and efforts into now will affect what our future looks like. In campaigning for arts support, the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts stated, “The values we support today will determine what we have when this is over.”
We are seeing an increased turn to the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, we have turned to art en gagement as a source of comfort and strength. Participating in and viewing art makes us connect to a more univer sal human experience. Be it artmaking at home, public murals, watching and listening to plays and music, or newfound interests in culinary arts, art is an expression of what it means to be human.
We define our human experience by the cultures we create and participate in. Culture, made up of customs, social interactions, and activities, is fueled by the arts. Be it music, food, or visual arts, culture and the arts are inseparable.
to an estimated 7300 BC. These cave walls host a hybrid of hunting scenes and relief handprints, probably made by blowing paint materials through hollowed-out bones, or reeds. This sea of overlapping hands and illustration provides a lens into a past life and builds a present-day connection with our stone-age ancestors. Ancient humans not only recorded their lives through art, but they also used art to express themselves. We do this to day, too—the arts create community by depicting shared events and to express other’s and our perspectives.individual
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re-interpret and re-contextualize their Withcollections.theinternet at our fingertips, gain ing access to art made by historically unrepresented voices and thoughtful museums is easier and more important than ever. Art can be a public health tool during COVID-19 Art helps to quickly communicate ideas through memorable visuals. Public art can be used as a directive tool in a crisis to benefit our general wellbeing. When artists create public art featuring masks to reflect our current experiences, they send a powerful mes sage to the public. Art guides and signals how people should interact and behave within a space. Visual cues help us understand how we fit into space and make state ments about what a community values. People are taking artistic interventions into their own hands and placing masks on statues all over the world to spread messages of public safety and social distancing. Masked statues are a friend ly reminder to wear masks and forge an environment of solidarity. Art fosters understanding between communities As we globally grapple with inequalities that have always existed but are more visible and striking in the past weeks, we are seeing art being used as a tool to create stronger communities. Art can allow us to not just understand our selves, but to understand each other on a deeper level. We can engage with online arts in a way to connect more deeply with current issues and events. There are a mul titude of ways to experience the arts virtually during COVID-19. Museums are moving exhibits online. Virtual galleries are hosting online show openings and artist Museumstalks.today are also working to be more community-informed, but they are working within the heavy frame works of their past. Historically, muse ums have reinforced inequality in their structure and tradition of exclusivity, in objectifying other cultures, and with unjustly collected artworks. However, there are many museums that are working to overcome this past. Many institutions are working to repatriate, create self-aware programming, and to “Art allows us to communicate from afar, generating duringappreciationpositivity,andhopeCOVID-19.”
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Normally in March, we enjoy a bloom of arts activity across all media—perfor mances, visual art, movies, you name it. As the arts ramp up in springtime, busy cultural summers begin to unfold. The cultural season kicks off with the start of summer art fairs, graduation exhibits for MFA and BFA students, an influx of new theater on Broadway, film festivals and concert venue programming for summer events. This year is different. While the world grapples with contain ing Coronavirus (COVID-19) the way we typically participate in the arts is chang ing. In-person gatherings are no longer possible this season. However, we can continue to engage culturally and artistically while we weather important social distancing to prevent the spread of Coronavirus One(COVID-19).ofthereasons we love being en gaged in what is happening in the arts and culture world is the social aspect of participating and creating a cultural community. And all of that is still possi ble. You can still share information with your friends, feed your brain and your soul with the arts, compare and discuss ideas. The benefit of having art in your life does not have to disappear this season. It just might look different. You can continue to make cultural partici pation an event with video chats and updates with your friends and family. “It is easier to catch the attention of the people through symbolism, music, dra ma and other forms of creative arts,” explains Shantanu Panja. Not surprisingly, doctors are focusing not just on medication, but on pre vention as well. They are also busting myths and spreading awareness about SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen causing Covid-19, through cultural activities. “It is easier to catch the attention of the people through symbolism, music, drama and other forms of creative arts.”
SEASIDE BALLROOM MAY 21CREATING10AM ART THAT PROMOTES AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
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When asked if people will find mak ing art so therapeutic once daily life recalibrates, Schapiro answered, “what I know in my heart is that we’re never going to be the same. There’s no way of going back, because we can’t. It’s going to have to be different. Now what we want to do with that difference depends on how much healing we experienced and how much awareness we gained from the experience of coping creatively with ourselves and the people we love.”
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Depression and the feeling of isolation have skyrocketed during the pandemic. Art therapy is an approach in psycho therapy that uses art to help people express their thoughts and feelings, a mission that has become only more important across the world since the “Thepandemic.artin art therapy could mean drawing, painting, sculpting, sewing, collage-making, writing, music-playing, dancing, and acting,” said Sabrina Maz zola, an art therapist and psychothera pist in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. Mazzola stated that her clients “need to deal with strong emotions such as fear of getting sick, fear of losing contact, and Expertsloneliness.”aren’tsurprised
intuitively gravitated toward creative ex pression during a period of extreme un certainty. At one end of the spectrum, drawing, crafting, and sculpting on one’s own have therapeutic benefits in general. Many studies have document ed a positive physiological response to both aesthetic and tactile experiences, whether walking down the halls of a hospital painted in bright colors or working with clay in a ceramics class. Lately, many people have learned the therapeutic value of art-making at home on their own. “As the world emerges from a long, dark pause and very emotional, it needs to rapidly adapt; therefore, drawing, sewing, and collaging at the kitchen table may continue to help individuals process and punctuate their daily reality. “
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WORKSHOP COASTAL BALLROOM MAY 20LEVERAGE12PM DIGITAL ART TOOLS TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY JOURNEY
Darius graduated from East Carolina University, where he received his BFA in Graphic Design. Darius has extensive experience in the digital media industry, and worked as the graphic designer for the Student department at Duke University. of is what attracted Cindy to her role as a Design Executive at IBM,
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A guided LEARN-IT-YOURSELF workshop about the current digital design tools so that you can acquaint yourself with them and add a design skill to your business. This is a MUST ATTEND event for artists who wish to expand the impact of their works to the community. JESSICA DEEN STEVEN BEX Jessica is a Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft focusing on Azure, Contain ers, OSS, and, of course, DevOps. Prior to joining Microsoft, she spent over a decade as an IT Consultant and Systems Administrator. Steven Bex leads Apple Managed Analytics offering in Deloitte Belgium. He is passionate about delivering user-centric, flexible, im pactful business by trust worthy, simple-to-consume AI solutions and services to clients across industries. JOIN OUR PANELISTS FOR THE SPECIAL WORKSHOP AT COASTAL BALLROOM! Microsoft IT Consultant Apple Managed Analytics 16
MODERATOR ANNA TOPOL CTO in IBM Research responsible for Research Strategic Alliances, IBM Distin guished Engineer, IBM Master Inventor with 90 patents, and a leader in the IBM Academy of Technology. Dr. Topol is recognized globally for her ability to create and deliver winning assets and solutions for various industries. She is also a prolific technical author. In 2015, she received the “Most Frequently Cited Paper Award” by Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Technology. IBM Engineer and Leader Event Hashtag #REIMAGINEConf Twitter @REIMAGINE Instagram @REIMAGINE Conference App Download “REIMAGINE Conference” Wifi Network REIMAGINEConf (No Password) Conference Website www.reimagineconf.com 17
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