Hello, On behalf of Mark Hurst & Phil Terry and the folks at Creative Good, I'd like to announce an upcoming event, the 2008 Gel Conference. I attended this conference last year and was significantly influenced by the speakers and concepts to which I was introduced (such as "bit literacy", which taught me to how empty out my email InBox at the end of every day and has since made a big difference in the way I work).
The Gel conference is a two-day event in New York every April. The name "Gel" is short for "Good Experience Live," and it explores good experience not just in the online world but in *all* areas - art, business, technology, creativity, and so on. Gel 2008 is next month - on Thursday-Friday, April 24-25 - see info here: http://gelconference.com/c/gel08.php Past Gel speakers include radio host Ira Glass, artists Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Bob Mankoff (New Yorker cartoon editor), and many others - you can see video clips here: http://gelconference.com/videos.php On the first day, Thursday, attendees have direct experiences all across New York City; on Friday, speakers present in the theater for 20 minutes each - this way Gel can fit about 15 speakers into the day. Gel is a very diverse, multidisciplinary event, both in the speakers and the attendees. See the range of attendees at last year's conference: http://gelconference.com/07/attendees.php By attending an event that mostly features people *outside* our discipline, we have a better chance of learning patterns and examples that we can apply *within* our discipline, in new ways. Sign up soon, since there aren't many tickets left: http://gelconference.com/c/gel08.php Regards, Gloria ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
