11:00AM-3:30PM

GALLERY EXHIBITION
Exhibiting The World's Best WorkTM in Interactive New Media Advertising
Contemporary video & digitally rendered works explore the term interactivity, as it relates to visual culture today. Featuring established visual media artists investigating various forms of interactive exchange & viewer engagement.

12:00PM-3:30PM

LECTURE & PANEL SERIES
Panel Moderator: Everett Kane

12:00PM - 12:45PM The New Art of Seduction
Speakers: Andrew Susman, Jill Magid, Brian Gonzalez, David Croland
"Looking beyond the digital veneer of contemporary media to explore its seductive qualities"
  • Seductive techniques used by advertisers
  • The subtle gesture versus the implied
  • Life of seduction as seen through various designers, artists, media
  • What is the new "hot" today and how is it being used


  • 1:00PM - 1:45PM The Method and Madness of Guerilla Advertising
    Speakers: Alan Wolan, James T. MacGregor, Wylie Stecklow, David Shearer
  • The Method & Madness of Guerrilla Advertising
  • Hidden costs
  • Pricing structures
  • Social & Political consequences
  • Benefits & Dangers
  • Guerrilla advertising versus traditional advertising


  • 2:00PM - 2:45PM What We Take: The Object of Art & Commerce
    Speakers: Sara Reisman, Bruce Wands, Tore Claesson, Tom Bogaert, Daniel Perlin
  • "Exposing the object as seen from the consumer's & viewer’s point-of-view"
  • 6:00-8:00PM

    OPENING RECEPTION
    Reception for Interactive & Alternative Media Medalists and fine artists. Chamber music by Thomas Lawrence Toscano

    7:30PM-9:00PM

    AWARDS CEREMONY
    Award recipients' ceremony featuring performances by Broadway talent and modern dance, theatre interludes, and improv comedy

    9:00PM-11:30PM

    VJ AFTER-PARTY
    New York City's most talented VJ's and performers duel in innovative sound, movement, and video experiments.