Hey guys, welcome back to the Luminous Arts!  I spend the next hour and a half talking to a good friend of mine, David Glicksman.  He’s the Director of Creative Technology at Gensler’s DxD department in LA.  They’re doing some really next-level installations in some of the world's most impressive architectural projects.  David’s an incredibly creative guy and he’s been part of the scene from the beginning.  He started with VFX and motion graphics and moved into the digital placemaking industry a few years ago when he took the helm at DxD.  Our conversation is great and we get into the weeds about what it means to be truly creative and an artist in this industry.  I loved this conversation and I bet you will too!

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In this episode, I sit down with my friend Nathan Lachenmyer to talk about his work as a creative technologist.  He started his career at MIT, in my hometown of Boston, which is actually how I met Nathan in the first place.  Nathan is a super talented creator and he’s worked on some iconic installations at the Dana Farber Institute and the Tate Modern.  His work with kinetic sculptures early on informed some of his more recent work incorporating machine learning with robotic free-floating artificial life forms at the Tate.  Pretty wild stuff!

It’s very cool to talk with Nathan about how his career has progressed since finishing school.  Our conversation was so natural and easy, we both know so many of the same people.  It’s an interesting dive into some unique parts of the New Media Arts Scene and I think that you’re going to love listening to us jam!

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Christopher Bauder, the founder of White Void, was one of the people that I had in mind when I started the Luminous Arts podcast.  I was in Berlin for the Touch Designer Summit when I first saw his work.  It was a performance called Skalar and it was being shown in an old abandoned transit station.  It was just crazy to me that thousands of people would gather to watch a performance centered around lighting and visuals.  The music was just a supporting element, not the focus of the show.  Whitevoid, which is the name of Chris’s design company, creates some of the most amazing lighting performances I’ve ever seen.  They combine kinetic lighting, lasers, and music in a totally unique way.  It’s like he’s using light as a fluid to fill a 3-dimensional space.

Our conversation wanders, like conversations here tend to do.  We start by talking about our youths and how growing up in the techno scene in Berlin shaped his artistic path.  Both of us spent our early years exploring the techno scenes in the places where we grew up, which led us to experimenting with the visual arts.  Even though we grew up at different times and on different continents, there’s a lot of shared experience between us that was really interesting to explore.  I’d been waiting years to have this conversation and I’m excited for the next time Chris and I can meet in person. 

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