Creative Code Meetup XVI: Björk Biophilia Creator’s Panel
This panel brings together some of the key creators of Björk’s groundbreaking Biophilia App Album and concert tour for demos, insider-stories, and discussion about the creation of the world’s first App Album and the mind-expanding Biophilia Concert. Organized in conjunction with the Bay Area premiere of Biophilia Live at the Roxie, Gray Area is thrilled to bring together six local artists who worked with Björk on her project:
• Scott Snibbe, producer of the Biophilia App Album and concert visuals, developer of several Biophilia song apps.
• Max Weisel, developer of several Biophilia song apps, and musician/music engineer on the concert tour.
• Mark Danks, software architecture, framework engineer, and developer of Sacrifice song app.
• Meara O’Reilly, creator of cymatics stage imagery.
• Noah Cunningham, video production for Biophilia concert visuals
• Elia Vargas, video production for Biophilia concert visuals
Biophilia Live is playing at the Roxie from October 10 through 12. If you would like to see the Biophilia Live movie, you can purchase tickets from the Roxie here for the 9:15pm show. We will all walk to the Roxie immediately after the panel. Don’t be late!
Same logistics as always, $5-$20 donation-based entry to support Gray Area!
Artists
Scott Snibbe
Scott is an entrepreneur and pioneer in interactive video, music, gesture, and digital art. He currently serves as the CEO of Eyegroove, a social music video startup. He was previously the founder of Snibbe Studio, producer of interactive music apps, including the world’s first app album Björk: Biophilia, which …
Max Weisel
Max Weisel is a creative coder in the bay area. He’s collaborated on apps with Björk and Lady Gaga for their albums and tours. He currently runs a studio in San Francisco called Relative Wave, and generally doesn’t take himself too seriously.
Elia Vargas
Elia is an Oakland based artist and curator. His work investigates new ecologies of human identity, and is interested in culture, code, cities, and cells as new landscapes and new organisms – or the narrative byproducts. Signal flow describes the pathway to new geographies and projection hurls information into space. These …
Noah Cunningham
Noah Cunningham is a talented DJ, concert promoter, editor, animator, cinematographer, and video artist. Noah spins music under the name DJ Dials, and for the last 14 years he’s been mixing songs from genres such as dubstep, ‘90s rap and throwback electronic, playing alongside well-known artists Thom Yorke, The …
Meara O’Reilly
Meara is a sound artist and educator, most recently in residence at the Exploratorium. She is currently developing a musical sequencer for ios based on Euclidean geometry and auditory perception with Cycling ‘74’s Sam Tarakajian. Her blog Illusion Songs is a collection of auditory illusions as found in indigenous …
Mark Danks
Mark Danks is a software innovator and classically trained composer who has led teams, run studios, and directed technology for publishers and independent developers in the games industry for over 16 years, including senior roles at Electronic Arts, Sony, and 3D Systems. Along with developing multi-million selling games such as “…
