Business Artistry with Nir Hindie

Nir Hindie
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Business Artistry is a podcast about creative leadership inspired by Renaissance thinking: the belief that our best ideas emerge when we combine the arts, technology, and business. In each episode, Nir Hindie speaks with artists, founders, and leaders working at the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, exploring the habits and mindsets that keep imagination alive in real organizational life. A show from The Artian, a creative leadership development atelier.

  1. 6D AGO

    048 - Michael Naimark: What Artist-Explorers Know That Corporates Always Forget

    What happens when an artist imagines the future decades before the rest of the world catches up? In this episode, Nir Hindie sits down with pioneering media artist and researcher Michael Naimark, whose work has shaped immersive and interactive media for more than forty years. If you’ve used Google Street View, you’ve seen the shadow of a project he helped create at MIT in the late 1970s: the Aspen Movie Map, a radically early experiment in “surrogate travel.” Michael’s career moved across some of the most influential innovation environments of the last half-century: MIT, Atari, Lucasfilm, the Apple–Lucas multimedia labs, and Interval Research, Paul Allen’s legendary “five to ten years ahead” laboratory. Across those settings he explored how artists, engineers, and researchers push each other toward breakthroughs that conventional corporate structures rarely allow. Shownotes: Michael's website: http://www.naimark.net/ Michael's workshop: MediatedPresence.com Aspen Movie Map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map Steve Jobs at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9HmOz8H0qI

    1h 10m

  2. JAN 21

    047 - Julie Martin: Before Silicon Valley, There Was E.A.T.

    This episode dives into one of the most overlooked turning points in modern innovation: the moment artists and engineers decided to build the future together. Julie Martin, co-director of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), joins Nir Hindie for a deep exploration of the collaborations that shaped contemporary tech culture long before Silicon Valley existed. They unpack how the legendary “Nine Evenings” project brought together world-class artists and Bell Labs engineers to create performances that pushed the limits of sound, movement, computing, and imagination. Julie explains why these collaborations worked, what tensions and breakthroughs shaped them, and how they became a template for cross-disciplinary innovation in every industry. For leaders, creators, and anyone trying to understand how real innovation happens, this conversation is both historical and uncomfortably relevant. It’s a reminder that progress doesn’t emerge from optimizing what already exists. It comes from people with different languages, disciplines, and obsessions daring to build something new together. Resources: Experiments in Art and Technology Website https://www.experimentsinartandtechnology.org/ Silver Clouds by Andy Warhol: https://www.brooksmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy-warhol-silver-clouds

    1h 4m
  3. 046 - Andrew Zolli. New Humanism.

    12/02/2021

    046 - Andrew Zolli. New Humanism.

    In this episode, Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer at Planet, the imagery company, speaks about the initiative he leads, “Art as Planet.” We discuss what the role of art in communicating scientific vision is? How artists have been helping in shaping an innovative culture in a satellite company, and why should small startups launch their own artist in residence? Zolli is a technologist, strategic foresight expert, and author. In the past he was the primary creative and curatorial force behind PopTech, a well-known innovation, and social change network; he served as a Fellow of the National Geographic Society and served on the Boards of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. See the show notes here.

    45 min
  4. 045 - Dr. Claudia Schnugg. Building Art-Science Collaboration.

    11/25/2021

    045 - Dr. Claudia Schnugg. Building Art-Science Collaboration.

    In this episode, Dr. Claudia Schnugg, an author, curator, researcher, and producer of art and science collaborations, shares her knowledge about building art-science collaborations, examples of successful partnerships, and what organizations can benefit from these collaborations. Check the show notes to learn more.

    45 min
  5. 044 - Dr. John Maeda. Transforming The Economy with Art and Design

    11/11/2021

    044 - Dr. John Maeda. Transforming The Economy with Art and Design

    In this episode, Dr. John Maeda, speaks about art and artists, the difference between art and design, why parents who sent their kids to RISD thought about innovation, and why, art and design are positioned to transform the economy of the 21st-century economy. Click here to see the show notes. Voices: John Maeda's Ted Talk David Bowie in an interview to BBC 1999

    49 min
  6. 043 - Anouk Wipprecht and Christoph Guger. Robotic Couture: Wearable Artworks meets Brain-Computer Interfaces Tech

    11/04/2021

    043 - Anouk Wipprecht and Christoph Guger. Robotic Couture: Wearable Artworks meets Brain-Computer Interfaces Tech

    In this episode, we host Anouk Wipprecht, artist, designer, and innovator, together with Christoph Guger, the founder and CEO of GTEC. The two have been working for more than six years, creating robotic dresses and brain-computer interface devices that are extremely exciting in their thinking and innovation. Anouk Wipprecht is working in the emerging field of "FashionTech" - a rare combination of fashion design combined with engineering, robotics, science, and interaction/user experience design to make fashion an experience that transcends mere appearances. Christoph Guger is the founder and CEO of GTEC, a company that develops and produces high-end brain-computer interfaces and biosignal processing hardware and software. See all images and videos on the episode's show notes.

    41 min
  7. 042 - Jeffrey Madoff. Creativity - The Need to Express.

    10/28/2021

    042 - Jeffrey Madoff. Creativity - The Need to Express.

    In this episode, Jeffrey Madoff, the founder of Madoff Productions, fashion designer, film director, and educator speaks about creativity, entrepreneurship, and how to lead creative teams. Madoff is on the faculty at Parsons School for Design, teaching a course he developed called “Creativity: Making a Living With Your Ideas”.  Madoff published the book entitled based on his course. Click here for the show notes.

    45 min
  8. 041 - Arthur Miller. The Artist in the Machine.

    10/21/2021

    041 - Arthur Miller. The Artist in the Machine.

    In this episode, Dr. Arthur I. Miller is back on our show to discuss his latest book - The Artist in The Machine. We discussed machine and creativity, why there is not enough AI in the world, and why, after all, you need creativity to stay relevant in the future. For the shownotes click here.

    39 min
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Business Artistry is a podcast about creative leadership inspired by Renaissance thinking: the belief that our best ideas emerge when we combine the arts, technology, and business. In each episode, Nir Hindie speaks with artists, founders, and leaders working at the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, exploring the habits and mindsets that keep imagination alive in real organizational life. A show from The Artian, a creative leadership development atelier.

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