The Conference
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Schedule
9:30AM Registration
10AM - 1PM Morning Sessions, Rose Auditorium
10:00-10:15 Welcome to RUCKUS
10:15 - 11:30 Panel Discussion: The Work-Work Balance
There are so many ways to build a career in the arts. How do you balance your art with artistic day jobs, day jobs that just pay the bills, freelance gigs, and everything else?
Sara Eileen Hames Editor-in-Chief, twenty-four magazine, Writer, Marketer, Event Producer
Zach Herchen Saxophonist, Recording Engineer
Sylvana Joyce Leader and manager, Sylvana Joyce & The Moment
Stephen Neary Story Artist, Blue Sky Studios
Moderated by Jennifer Edwards, Founder and CEO JenEd Productions, content creator, choreographer, consultant.
15 minute break
11:45 - 1 PM Panel Discussion: Getting Your Work Out There
The web has changed the power structure in the arts. The old channels for distribution are still here, but new methods, new platforms, and new technologies are constantly evolving. How do you make sense of it all and get your work in front of people? Who are the new media gatekeepers?
Pablo Defendini Designer, producer, printmaker, bookmaker, and all-around geek.
Victoria Nece Director of Animation and Graphic Design, The Documentary Group
Lisa Niedermeyer Fractured Atlas Program Specialist and Manager of NYC Performing Arts Spaces
Annie Werner Arts outreach, Tumblr
Moderator TBD
10AM - 1PM Morning Sessions, LL101
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome to RUCKUS
10:15 - 11:30 Short Talks: Cooper Union Happenings
REPOhistory
Arts collective creating interactive work for Cooper’s Ruptures.
Sean Cusack
Assistant Adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union.
Paul Garrin
Video artist and internet experimentalist.
15 minute break
11:45 - 1 PM Short Talks: Creative Communities
Lainie Fefferman
Composer, Founding Director of Exapno New Music Community Center.
Thomas Deneuville
Composer, Founder of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
Sara Eileen Hames
Practical Strategies for Dealing with Burnout, or, The Third Time I Ran Away From Home.
1 - 2PM Lunch
2 - 6PM Afternoon Sessions, Rose Auditorium
2:00 - 3:15 Panel Discussion: Funding
We talk about crowdfunding a lot, but there are still grants, fellowships, mass media and creative careers. The old arts economy is not dead yet, but it’s changing fast and no one knows for sure where it’s headed.
Janet Brusselbach Painter, creator of Teleportraiture
Jack Cavicchi Writer, graphic designer, New Yorker, blogger, activist, hedonist, publisher and dandy
Kevin Clark Communications Manager, New Music USA, theater composer, showrunner, blogger
Nick Fox-Gieg Independent Animator, Eyebeam Fellow
Moderated by Sara Eileen Hames
15 minute break
3:30 - 4:30 Panel Discussion: Community
How do you create and manage a community of supporters and make them feel like a part of your work?
Thomas Deneuville Composer, Founder of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Lainie Fefferman Composer, Founding Director of Exapno
Rachel Fershleiser Literary and Nonprofit Outreach at Tumblr, former Director of Public Programs at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Co-Creator of Six-Word Memoirs
Casey Middaugh Interactive Game Designer
Moderated by Jennifer Edwards
4:30 - 5:00 30 minute activity break: Flash Collaboration Game by Casey Middaugh
5:00-6:00 Q&A: Making Stuff Happen
A group chat session about getting from idea to action. Building off the interactive game results, we’ll talk strategies for producing and collaborating as well as practical skills and tools to help get your work into the world around you. Ask anyone at the conference, presenters and audience alike, how they do it.
Moderated by Kevin Clark
2 - 6PM Afternoon Sessions, LL101
2:00 - 3:15 Short Talks: This Stuff Rocks
Sylvana Joyce
She started Sylvana Joyce & The Moment with a day job, and has built her fanbase inch by inch.
Stephen Neary
Story Artist, Blue Sky Studios.
Pablo Defendini
Designer, producer, printmaker, bookmaker, and all-around geek.
15 minute break
3:30 - 4:30 Short Talks: Digital Sales and Online Marketplaces
Jack Cavicchi
Writer, graphic designer, New Yorker, blogger, activist, hedonist, publisher and dandy.
Janet Brusselbach
Painter, creator of Teleportraiture.
Nick Fox-Gieg and Victoria Nece
Demo: DIY Motion Capture with KinectToPin
4:30 - 5:00 30 minute activity break: control a skeleton, a horse, or a bunch of floating dots with KinectToPin
5:00-6:00 Short Talks: Tech Tools for Artists
Artful.ly
Online system to manage your tickets, donations and contacts, from Fractured Atlas
NYC Performing Arts Spaces
Online marketplace for rehearsal and performance space rentals.
Tumblr
Social blogging platform
