When:
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2017 6:30p -
8:30p

Where:
General Assembly Downtown
125 Summer Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02110

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, Business, Festivals & Fairs, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Performing Arts, Tech

Event website:
https://generalassemb.ly/education/cabin-fever-art-tech-how-tech-is-disrupting-the-art-world/boston/34177

About This Event


Introduction
Escape the winter blues at General Assembly with Cabin Fever – a weeklong event series celebrating the startups + entrepreneurs that make Boston great.
For Day 2 we are partnering up with Unsplash, Cuseum, and other local companies to discuss how tech is intersecting with the art world.


What You'll Take Away?
We've assembled a line up of creative individuals from different fields within the industry to share ideas on how technology is:
- transforming the way we perceive and define art
- providing new opportunities for creation and innovation
- forming disruptive marketplaces, allowing for greater access and distribution
shaping the future of the art world
+ more....


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About the Experts


Brendan Ciecko
Founder and CEO, Cuseum
Brendan Ciecko is the founder and CEO of Cuseum, a technology startup that helps museums engage their visitors. Founded in 2014, Cuseum works with cultural institutions around the globe, has raised over $1.4M in funding, and recently went through Techstars.
Prior to Cuseum, Ciecko started Ten Minute Media, an agency that specializes in digital media and creative services for the music entertainment industry. Since its official establishment in 2003, Ten Minute Media has acquired a flourishing list of clients including some of the biggest names in entertainment.


Ciecko’s entrepreneurial career and projects have gained the attention of the national press. In October of 2008, Ciecko appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine in the feature article, Cool, Determined, Under 30: Meet the brains behind America's smartest new companies. He has also appeared in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, New York Times, The Guardian, BMW Magazine, Boston Globe, PC Magazine and was a national finalist of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.


He currently sits on the Steering Committee of the Museum Council at Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Community Advisory Board for the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts. Ciecko has also served on the Massachusetts "It's All Here" Advisory Board, Board of Washington Gateway Main Streets, Boston’s ONEin3 Council, and Regional Leadership Team of Technology for Obama.


Brendan currently lives in Boston’s historic Fort Point neighborhood with his wife Elizabeth and their little dog Misiu.


Alice Donovan Rouse
Local Community Organizer, Unsplash
Hailing from Boston, Alice is a one-woman-team leading Unsplash Local—the startup's offline global creative community. Her day-to-day consists of working with Unsplash photographers and remixers while collaborating with brands to bring photowalks, gatherings, remix events, workshops and talks to the growing Unsplash communities around the world. With an MFA in Graphic Design, Alice also teaches design courses at both Suffolk and Boston University.


About Our Partners


MassChallenge
MassChallenge is the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. No equity and not-for-profit, we are obsessed with helping entrepreneurs across any industry. We also reward the highest-impact startups through a competition to win a portion of several million dollars in equity-free cash awards. Through our global network of accelerators in Boston, London, Jerusalem, Geneva, Mexico City and unrivaled access to our corporate partners, we can have a massive impact -- driving growth and creating value the world over. Learn more and apply here! 2017 applications close March 28th!


Unsplash
Unsplash is a thriving creative community of over 40,000 photographers—and millions of members—bringing you the best free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos in the world.


Cuseum
Cuseum powers mobile-first experiences that help museums and arts institutions engage their visitors.

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