Revisiting Silicon Alley: 5 Years After New York City's Digital Media Boom

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> From: "Wayne Ashley" <[email protected]>
> Date: December 8, 2004 4:09:01 PM EST
> Subject: Revisiting Silicon Alley: 5 Years After New York City's
> Digital Media Boom
>
> Hope you can make this talk.
>
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> Back to the Alley: 5 Years After
>
> Monday December 13, 2004, 7 PM
> The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York
> City
> 3 Spruce Street (Between Park and Gold, closer to Gold), NYC Free and
> open to the public
>
> Back to the Alley is the first retrospective analysis of the Silicon
> Alley dot-com scene that transformed Lower Manhattan into a hub of
> digital media production in the late- 1990s. This panel discussion will
> feature some of the leading figures of Silicon Alley, including:
> Nicholas Butterworth, former president & CEO of MTVi; Jeffrey Dachis,
> CEO/chairman of Studio Holdings (and former CEO/co-founder of
> Razorfish); Dan Pelson, former CEO and founder, Bolt.com, and Kevin
> Ryan, CEO of Doubleclick. Jason McCabe Calacanis, former editor and
> founder of Silicon Alley Reporter magazine, will moderate the panel.
>
> Presented by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) East, the National
> Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), the Pace University
> Center for Advanced Media, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
> Back to the Alley: 5 Years After will examine what the interactive
> media
> industry looks like in New York today; what lessons were learned from
> the late-90s (and, more importantly, how these lessons are being
> applied
> to today's work), and what the individual dot-com companies are doing
> with their precious nanoseconds in late-2004.
>
> If you would like to attend the event, please RSVP to
> https://www.123signup.com/event?id=fxxbs or call 212-894-4016.
>
> Back to the Alley is part of Downtown Digital Futures, LMCC's
> multi-year
> platform for artists, cultural planners, urban developers, and
> technologists to creatively explore the role of art and technology in
> the transformation of Lower Manhattan and other urban centers.
> Downtown
> Digital Futures includes public art installations, artists' talks,
> large-scale commissions, and a research and policy think tank. For more
> information, please visit http://www.lmcc.net/ddf
>
>
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> Wayne Ashley
> Curator of New Media & Public Programs
> 120 Broadway
> 31st Floor
> New York, NY 10271
> T 212-219-9401 x106
> F 212-219-2058
>