| Info about Openly Disruptive [message #5594] |
Tue, 27 July 2010 13:09 |
 Carrotclimber
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Registered: January 2010
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Dan volunteered at the last open house. He is starting an organization
called Openly Disruptive. Their Facebook tagline says "Openly Disruptive is
all about the junction where art, technology, and context meet in our
evolving world. We're for people that want to define the future, not be
victims of it."
Dan recently sent out an email calling for "Noted Disruptors" to be
highlighted on the website. Please read on, as I believe that there are
likely people that fit this description in our group. I'd love if we could
support this organization... maybe have some events at our space. I'd like
to have Dan come in and talk to the whole group about it on a Tuesday if
people are interested. Let me know what you think. It would be a good org
to align ourselves with, as we could be the workshop for people that are
involved with these challenges or programs.... and give another good org PR
in the process.
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Sorry for the mass e-mail. You are some of the many people I’ve met over
the last year as we’ve developed Openly Disruptive. It started out as
something called The Gateway Challenge - the idea was to find ways to pair
artists and technology people to do interesting collaborative projects that
help create an innovative culture.
Since then the concept has evolved to become Openly Disruptive; our tagline
is “The future will be what we make it”. We start public programs this fall
– our first one is Mining for Meaning. Working with the Craft Alliance, Jon
Armstrong of Cofactor Genomics and the RCGA’s Initiative for Creative
Comebacks, we’re going to let artists, hackers, crafters, designers,
programmers, puzzle-geeks, and geneticists explore new ways to interact with
and express genetic data (check out this story about Cofactor’s work with
Ozzie Osbourne):
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/06/28/daily6.html?ana=e_du_pap
As we launch our events, we’re also getting our website up to speed. A
major part of the website will be dedicated to the work of what we’re
calling Noted Disruptors – people doing amazing work in technology, media,
the arts, conceptual thinking, innovation, visualization or creativity. If
you or someone you know has done work that you’d like to show off, send the
following info by Friday August 6th to be featured:
A visual representation of the work – photo, graphic, sketch, rendering,
flowchart, etc.
A brief description of the work and how it is unique, innovative, and
exciting.
A URL for where you want the work to link to on the web – your website etc.
Contact information so we can work out the details
We’ll try to use as many submissions as possible. For more ideas on what
might work, visit us at www.facebook.com/openlydisruptive. Forward this
email to the people you know that are doing the best work. If you want to
be involved in ways beyond showing off your work, let me know. We need help
with event planning and organization, website design and programming,
program development and a host of other areas where you can meet and work
with some very cool people.
We’ll be starting an e-newsletter soon to keep everyone informed. In the
meantime, follow us on Facebook.
We’ve got some talented people here – let’s make sure the world knows it!
Dan Reus - Founder
Openly Disruptive
The future will be what we make it.
{email removed}
Cell - (314) 496-3457
Follow us at www.facebook.com/OpenlyDisruptive
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