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SOA 2010 - SATURDAY, JUNE 19 - Now Ended, but Online Coming Soon! Thisextraordinary day of leading edge panelists, thought provoking dialogue and brain-share on the forefront of Arts, Media and Entertainment will be available virtually soon. The Symposium offered a unique and fresh perspective on the future of Arts, Media, Communications and Technology while focusing on the conscious use of creativity and its power to drive global change.Get INSPIRED about creating the future NOW and learn how you can be profitable while creating positive change.
Local Think-Tank for Arts and New Media Goes Global In June, c3: Center for Conscious Creativity presented a day-long "State of the Arts" symposium discussing future trends in Arts, Media and Entertainment with leading-edge panelists from Ovation TV, Arts for LA, Lionsgate (Digital), Producers Guild of America, Sony Picture Entertainment, The Millennium Project, the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future, and the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, among others. The thought-provoking discussions focused on the conscious use of creativity and its power to drive global change. This Symposium was inspired by the LA Opera Ring. As an important outgrowth c3: Vision LAB is in the process of creating a Global Arts and Media Node dedicated to the goal of addressing creative solutions for The Millennium Project's "15 Global Challenges," as a contribution to the Millennium Project annual report called "The State of the Future."
Just Some of the Thought Provoking Panelists Who Were There (See them again soon): For full bios please see our Speaker Section
LEVAR BURTON Guest Host Actor, Director
GAYNOR STRACHAN-CHUN V.P. Ovation TV
DON LEVY SVP, Sony Pictures
JEROME C GLENN Director Millennium Project
ALEX BARKALOFF Exec. Producer Lionsgate Digital
ALISON SAVITCH President, PGA New Media
Ken Kragen Creator "We Are the World"
ADRIAN SEXTON CEO, New Medici
BEN MENDELSON President, ITVA
TOM SHADYAC Producer, Director
CHARLOTTE HUGGINS 3D Producer
MARC SCARPA Exec. Producer, Director
KATHY ELDON Founder, Creative Visions Foundation
BRETT LEONARD Director, Writer
MICHEL KRIPALANI Pres. Oceanhouse Media
CHRIS URSITTI CEO, GreenHouse Holdings, Inc.
LEE HELPER Bender Helper,Neo, Channel Labs
MARY T. DUDA CEO/President VirtuePlay Inc.
JOHN RAATZ Founder of GATE
BRIAN SELZER Co-Founder Ogmento, Inc.
EVONNE HEYNING Amoration
ED LANTZ Founder IMERSA, President, Vortex Immersion Media
DANIELLE BRAZELL Executive Director Arts for LA
MICHAEL GILBERT USC Annenberg Cntr. for the Digital Future
ANDRE MIRIPOLSKY Artist “Fear No Art”
JILL GURR Founder/ Executive Director Create Now
KENJI WILLIAMS Creative Director/Composer
TALA MOHEBI Editor-In-Chief Public Diplomacy Magazine
DR. M.A. GREENSTEIN Dir. George Greenstein Institute
PHIL LELYVELD, Consumer 3D Experience Lab, USC Entertainment Technology Cntr.
JEAN OELRICH Director of Marketing, Los Angeles Opera
JENNIFER OUELLETTE, Director, Science & Entertainment Exchange
SANDRA DE CASTRO BUFFINGTON Dir. Hollywood, Health & Society at Norman Lear Center
PAMELA JAYE SMITH Producer, Author Founder, Mythworks
KATE MCCALLUM Executive Director c3™ and c3:VisionLAB™
ALEXANDRA SOKOL Dir. c3:VisionLAB™ CEO, MemeStream Media
And Evening Performance by Kenji Williams of BELLA GAIA
c3:VisionLAB’sSOA 2010 - “State of the Arts ”Symposium, the first in a series of branded thought provoking SO!™ Conferences, focuses on the evolution of the Arts, Media and Entertainment by bringing together an exceptional group of cross-industry leaders and thinkers to weigh in on this landscape of change, how it will affect us and ways in which we can collaborate to engineer the future.