FITC :: Inspire. Educate. Challenge.

Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis took a break from their hectic schedules to talk about their work and passion since starting Hellicar & Lewis in 2008. They focus on the intersection of art, technology and design to create experiences that bring people into the moment and leave memories, not just impressions. Pete said that “telling [...]

Mario Klingemann is a white coat wearing mad scientist, coder, creator and maker from Munich, Germany. In ‘Making Love’ he talks about his relationship with one particular maker tool – the laser cutter. A laser cutter uses a 30w laser to cut through a vast array of materials. It can cut straight through wood, cardboard, MDF, [...]

“Sometimes, it’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wild one begins.” Bear71 is an interactive web documentary started by an award-winning team (the National Film Board Interactive and Jam3) driven to build and evolve the flow of narrative. With the help of a microsite, Flash, Adobe AIR, social media sites, trail [...]

Jared Ficklin (@jaredrawk) the principal technologist at Frog Design loves a good party and a chance to experiment, so he does both at the same time. That is what happens at SXSW where Jared’s skills come in handy when planning and running the Frog Design sponsored party which is as much an experiment as it [...]

There aren’t enough words to describe Jon Burgerman. Playful, funny and spontaneous are a few, but while he is all of these things, these words fall somehow fall short. Jon Burgerman is a self-proclaimed ‘salad enthusiast’ who seems to have accidentally stumbled upon an art career. In his talk at FITC Toronto 2012, he tells [...]

In my last blog post, I talked about design collective, Red Paper Heart and their work on Cycling Classic, a Goldsprint-style stationary bike race seen at the 2011 E2NY Music and Arts Festival. It took biking to new heights by giving the sense of motion without any at all and juxtaposed dynamic environments to spur [...]

Kyle McDonald is one part coder, one part artist who uses his skills to explore ideas using interactive media. He is a regular contributor to the open source movement, helping do-it-yourselfers by creating open source code and answering questions on the openFrameworks forums. What Kyle found fascinating beyond the work itself in open source, was the [...]

Vincent Morisset always wanted to be a filmmaker, but he fell into web development when his friends asked him to make a website for their band, which happened to be indie rock group Arcade Fire. This catapulted his career, and soon he received more requests to do work for Arcade Fire, as well as world famous [...]

Josh Nimoy is an artist who uses code as his paintbrush. Born in Hollywood, his parents were both physicians – something, he said, which gives him a compulsive desire to fix things. During his presentation he gave an overview of his work and shared his insights into coding as an art form. Growing up, Josh dabbled [...]

Red Paper Heart is a collective of four inspiring and talented professionals set on creating experiences that help us value the most mundane activities by using them as a point of interaction. With projection art in mind, these four work to create installments that enrich the mind, body and soul. Whether it’s through stationary [...]