Neil Koenig, Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme board advisor interviews Cynthia Noble, Executive Director, Vornado Arts and ART on THE MART. 🎨 🌍 📣 

Please note that the Poetry Foundation is no longer going ahead this Fall. “The Poetry Foundation collaboration is now going ahead in 2025, however the collaborating artists will be announced next year.”

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Think of public art, and sculptures or statues might first come to mind. But how about something bigger than two American football fields? That’s the size of ART on THE MART, one of the largest digital art projects in the world.The endeavour began in 2018, with digital art works being displayed on the facade of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, at one time the biggest building in the world.  

For Cynthia Noble, the initiative’s founding executive director, it offers artists the chance to explore what might be described as “a new medium...it offers a great chance to experiment”. Amongst those who have contributed works so far are artists including Charles Atlas, Derrick Adams, Nick Cave, and many more.

In this interview with me for ideaXme, Cynthia Noble talks about how she came to be involved with launching ART on THE MART, the role that public art can play in the life of cities everywhere, forthcoming works by artists such as Nora Turato and Yinka Illori, and how she sees the emerging field of “media architecture” developing in the future. 

ART on THE MART and Cynthia Noble links:

CYNTHIA NOBLE BIOGRAPHY 
https://artonthemart.com/about/people...

PHOTO CREDITS
Cynthia Noble photo by Caroline Manrique

VIDEO CREDITS
Video of digital art displays courtesy of Art on the Mart

LINKS
https://artonthemart.com/

More details: 

Founded in 2018, the program is a result of a 30-year commitment by THE MART owner Vornado Realty Trust, in close collaboration with the City of Chicago, with a shared goal to provide public access to innovative contemporary art to the thousands of visitors traversing the Chicago Riverwalk each day.

Projections are visible from Wacker Drive and along the Riverwalk. The platform is free and open to the public nightly, nine months per year, from April through December. 

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MEGA CHICAGO Digital Art Initiative Attracts Global Audiences

Neil Koenig, Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme interviewer in conversation with Esther Wojcicki, Chief Education Advisor at Knack and Chief Academic Advisor at Pressto.ai. 🎬🎤

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What’s the most difficult job in the world? President, astronaut, neurosurgeon? No - according to the educator, journalist and author Esther Wojcicki, “it’s being a parent”. 👩‍👧‍👧

As she explains, “most young people don't realise it, but when you become a parent you're signing up for a lifetime of worry…you’re going to want to help your child forever”. But, she adds, the rewards of parenthood far outweigh any downsides: “there’s nothing more exciting than having a great family”.  

In this interview with me for ideaXme, Esther Wojcicki talks about her career in education; why she believes a more “hands-off” approach is better for kids than being a so-called “helicopter” parent; and some of her many other ventures, such as her work with the Creative Commons project.  She also discusses her best-selling book “How to Raise Successful People”, in which she sets out how parents can not only help their children to achieve their full potential, but can also have a great time in the process. 📚👩‍🏫

ESTHER WOJCICKI - BIOGRAPHY
https://creativecommons.org/person/es...
 

 / estherwojcicki  

BOOK -  “HOW TO RAISE SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE”
https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Succ...

APP
ParentingTrick.
Parenting TRICK is an app on the Apple App Store that helps parents learn the TRICK method and prepare their children for success. It is also on the Google Play Store.  👩‍💻

Pressto.ai: https://www.joinpressto.com

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Courtesy of Esther Wojcicki.

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Esther Wojcicki Famous Educationist | How to Raise Successful People?

Neil Koenig, ideaXme Senior TV Series Producer and interviewer talks with Kilian Kaminski, Co-founder of refurbed. 🪛⚙️🔨 👩‍💻📲

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Does your home have a drawer with an old smartphone in it? If so, you’re not the only one. According to one study there are some 200 million unused phones in homes in Germany alone: that’s more than two per person. 📱💻

“This is a tragedy” says Kilian Kaminski, because there are “resources in these devices, which are really valuable -  gold, silver, copper, and they are just lying around without any usage”. Kilian, along with Peter Windischhofer and Jürgen Riedl, is now trying to do something about the situation. Several years ago the trio founded “refurbed”, a company based in Vienna that renews old electronic devices and makes them usable again.

I caught up with Kilian Kaminski at the 2024 St Gallen Symposium. In this interview with me for ideaXme, he talks about how his enterprise came to be founded, how it is branching out to refurbish a wider range of items such as sports goods and vacuum cleaners, and how he hopes to turn “refurbished” into a new product category that is “the cool, smart choice”, as well being as a vital step in the development of the so-called “circular” economy.

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Refurbed
http://www.refurbed.com

Kilian Kaminski
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St Gallen Symposium
https://symposium.org/

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Now Cool to Buy a refurbed Mobile? | We Spoke to Kilian Kaminski to Find Out More!

Neil Koenig Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme interviewer, in conversation with Benjamina Bollag, founder and CEO of Uncommon.

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As concerns about the sustainability of food production grow, could so-called “cellular agriculture” be part of the answer? A new Cambridge-based startup called Uncommon is one of a host of new players that are trying to find out. Instead of raising pigs on a farm, Uncommon is aiming to produce pork by “growing” it in a lab or factory.

So how does the process work? On its website, the company explains that it obtains ”sample cells — specifically stem cells — from a traditionally farmed animal, and then we nurture them to reach a state where they can infinitely grow using a process called reprogramming”. Uncommon believes that the process can result in a product that has “the potential to be the same as traditional meat right down to the molecular level”.  It adds that it does “not use genetically modified pork cells or antibiotics in our manufacturing process.”

Still, it’s a field that is not without controversy. Some observers worry about issues such as safety and the potential impact on the traditional farming industry; indeed, Florida has recently banned “lab-grown” meat. But enthusiasts believe that products like cultivated meat have a bright future, offering a revolutionary way to produce food in a much more sustainable manner, amongst many other benefits.

I met Uncommon’s founder Benjamina Bollag at this year’s Symposium, organised by the students of St Gallen university in Switzerland.  In this interview with me for ideaXme, Benjamina Bollag talks about how the idea for her startup came about, the many challenges involved in creating a radically new type of food, and her hopes and dreams for the future. 
LINKS

BENJAMINA BOLLAG BIOGRAPHY
  / benjaminabollag  

UNCOMMON
https://uncommonbio.co/about-us/

ST GALLEN SYMPOSIUM 
https://symposium.org/
PHOTO AND VIDEO CREDITS FOR INTRODUCTORY SEQUENCE
Courtesy of Uncommon and St Gallen Symposium 

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Well, This is Uncommon | Cultivated Meat

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