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> From: Annette Gallo <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:44:03 PM US/Eastern
> To: Annette Gallo <[email protected]>
> Subject: THE FIRST ANNUAL CREATIVITY NOW CONFERENCE
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> Please forward this to your friends….
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> TOKION MAGAZINE PRESENTS
>
> THE FIRST ANNUAL CREATIVITY NOW CONFERENCE
>
> NEW YORK CITY, SEPT. 6-7
>
> August 4,2003 - Tokion Magazine announces the First Annual Creativity
> Now Conference at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall, September 6th
> and 7th, 2003 in New York City. This unique symposium will bring
> together top figures in art, design, fashion, photography, film,
> publishing and marketing. In the same room for the first time, the
> people shaping popular culture today will exchange ideas, methods and
> inspirations over the course of two days, before an audience of 2,000.
> Creativity Now will consist of several panel discussions and
> individual presentations, all curated by Paper Magazine's Senior
> Editor Carlo McCormick.
>
> Highlights from the weekend include:
>
> Artist Matthew Barney lectures on his work.
>
> Acclaimed graphic designer Peter Saville lectures on his early work
> with Factory Records and his recently published book, Designed by
> Peter Saville.
>
> Gaspar Noe(Irreversible) producer Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry),
> and writer/director Neil LaBute (Your Friends and Neighbors) discuss
> "Film and Independence."
>
> UK animators Shynola screen recent music videos for Radiohead, Queens
> of the Stone Age and the Rapture, followed by a Q & A with the
> audience.
>
> Al- Jazeera'sAbderrahim Foukaraand and Robert Tappan from the Office
> of Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy discuss"Marketing America to
> the Muslim World."
>
> Fashion designer Jeremy Scott, Andrew Richardson (Richardson
> Magazine), Camilla Nickerson (Vogue), Pascal Dangin (Box Studios) ,
> and photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin discuss
> "Making the Fashion Image"
>
> Ryan McGinness, Shepard Fairy, Wieden+ Kennedy's John Jay, and Jeffrey
> Deitch discuss "The Commodification of Street Art."
>
> Artist Tom Sachs, ESPO,and Hello Kitty creator, Yuko Shimizu discuss
> "The Power of Pop Iconography."
>
> Suroosh Alviof Vice Magazine and Cecilia Dean of Visionaire discuss
> "Independent Publishing."
>
> Famed video game designer Stieg Hedlund (Diablo II, Splinter Cell) and
> digital effects master Scott Ross (Titanic, The Day After Tomorrow) on
> "Digital Direction and the Future of Virtual Narratives."
>
> Melle Mel, Phase 2, and Kool Herc discuss "Laying the Foundations of
> Hip Hop."
>
> In what will become an annual tradition, Tokion Magazine will devote
> its January issue to Creativity Now. The focus of this special issue
> will be on the cultural blueprint produced by the conference. It will
> reach an international readership of 140,000 and promises to be a
> collectors' item for everyone from industry professionals to students.
> Sponsored in part by Nike and Tylenol, Creativity Now will be the
> definitive yearbook of popular culture for 2003.
> Tickets can be purchased through Tokion's web site (www.tokion.com
> <http://www.tokion.com> ) or at the Tokion Shop (78 Clinton St. NYC.)
>
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