Business Artistry with Nir Hindie
Business Artistry is a podcast about creative leadership inspired by Renaissance thinking: the belief that our best ideas emerge when we combine the arts, technology, and business. In each episode, Nir Hindie speaks with artists, founders, and leaders working at the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, exploring the habits and mindsets that keep imagination alive in real organizational life. A show from The Artian, a creative leadership development atelier.
Episodes
55 episodes
047 - Julie Martin: Before Silicon Valley, There Was E.A.T.
This episode dives into one of the most overlooked turning points in modern innovation: the moment artists and engineers decided to build the future together. Julie Martin, co-director of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), joins Nir Hi...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:04:13
046 - Andrew Zolli. New Humanism.
In this episode, Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer at Planet, the imagery company, speaks about the initiative he leads, “Art as Planet.” We discuss what the role of art in communicating scientific vision is? How artists have been helping in s...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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45:04
045 - Dr. Claudia Schnugg. Building Art-Science Collaboration.
In this episode, Dr. Claudia Schnugg, an author, curator, researcher, and producer of art and science collaborations, shares her knowledge about building art-science collaborations, examples of successful partnerships, and what organizations ca...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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44:58
044 - Dr. John Maeda. Transforming The Economy with Art and Design
In this episode, Dr. John Maeda, speaks about art and artists, the difference between art and design, why parents who sent their kids to RISD thought about innovation, and why, art and design are positioned to transform the economy of the 21st-...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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48:53
043 - Anouk Wipprecht and Christoph Guger. Robotic Couture: Wearable Artworks meets Brain-Computer Interfaces Tech
In this episode, we host Anouk Wipprecht, artist, designer, and innovator, together with Christoph Guger, the founder and CEO of GTEC. The two have been working for more than six years, creating robotic dresses and brain-computer interface devi...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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41:12
042 - Jeffrey Madoff. Creativity - The Need to Express.
In this episode, Jeffrey Madoff, the founder of Madoff Productions, fashion designer, film director, and educator speaks about creativity, entrepreneurship, and how to lead creative teams. Madoff is on the faculty at Parsons School for Design, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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45:03
041 - Arthur Miller. The Artist in the Machine.
In this episode, Dr. Arthur I. Miller is back on our show to discuss his latest book - The Artist in The Machine. We discussed machine and creativity, why there is not enough AI in the world, and why, after all, you need creativity to stay rele...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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39:03
040 - Noah Weinstein. How to Develop a Creative Community.
In this episode, Noah Weinstein, the previous creative director of Autodesk Pier 9 - The world's greatest creative workshop - speaks about how to build creative communities, what is the role of management in supporting creative initiatives, and...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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50:28
Bonus episode. Tim Ellis. A few pages away from Mars.
In this bonus episode, Tim Ellis, the co-founder and CEO of relativity space speaks about his dream to become a writer; how his life with his partner, the artist Richelle Gribble, is influencing him, and why art, science, and space are all tied...
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Season 2
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34:17
039 - Richelle Gribble. Everything is Connected.
In this episode, Richelle Gribble, an expeditionary artist who explores planetary connectivity, both on and off Earth, speaks about her experience at biosphere 2, the north pole, and why she is practicing to become an astronaut.See show...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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52:36
038 - Uli Schmitz. Thinking Beyond Startup Boundaries.
In this episode, we talk to Uli Schmitz, the founding manager of FreeTech, the managing director of Axel Springer Digital Ventures, and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator co-founder. Uli discusses how to create an artist in residence p...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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37:29
037 - Dr. Giovanni Schiuma. Organizational Development Through Art.
In this episode, Dr. Giovanni Schiuma, a Knowledge and Innovation Management Professor at the Università LUM, speaks with us about why companies should integrate the arts, what aesthetic technologies are, and the power of having an arts archite...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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47:27
036 - Adam Rosendahl. Art to Build Connection and Trust.
In this episode, we talk to Adam Rosendahl, the Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Late Nite Art®. How can art facilitate discussions and improve team building? Why should leaders want their teams to be more open with one another? What is ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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40:47
035 - Dr. Erik Lucero. The Art Within Quantum Computing.
In this episode, we speak to a Google staff research scientist, Dr. Erik Lucero. In his work, he leads the production quantum hardware team that supplies the world with quantum computers that can perform beyond classical computations. We talked...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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44:31
034 - Dov Baron. Community, Cooperation, Corporation.
In this episode, we speak to the leadership speaker Dov Baron. In his work, he teaches us how to recognize, find, retain, and nurture dragons (the top talent) who are hidden in our organizations. We talked about how leaders can better manage ge...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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47:33
033 - Daniel Canogar. Experiencing Versus Visualizing Data.
In this episode, we learn from Daniel Canogar about making data stimulate all the human senses, not just the visual. Canogar is a visual artist that focuses on hacking into obsolete technologies, finding the similarities between human and techn...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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45:12
032 - Ellen Langer. Be Confident in Your Uncertainty.
In this episode, we speak to the professor of psychology Ellen Langer. In her work, she studies the illusion of control, decision-making, aging, and mindfulness theory. We talked about the beauty of mistakes, why the process of making art is mo...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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48:48
031 - Ben Grosser. Depersonalizing Digital Platforms.
In the second episode with Ben Grosser, an artist focused on the cultural, social, and political effects of software, he talks to us about taking the algorithms out of different digital platforms, teaching students how to analyze digital platfo...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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39:18
030 - Ben Grosser. How Software Engineers Us.
In this episode, we talk to Ben Grosser, an artist who is focused on the cultural, social, and political effects of software. We talk about why numbers are so important on social media, making music with computers, and how to add humans to the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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46:57
029 - Danica Purg. What Leaders Need: Brain, Guts, and Heart.
In this episode, Danica Purg, the founding and current President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, speaks with us about her MBA program that incorporates art as much as business, how to prepare leaders for an increasingly complex world, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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49:46
028 - Arthur I Miller. The History of Ideas.
In this episode, we speak to the artist-scientist and author Arthur Miller. In his work, he explores the nature of creative thinking – the mind’s ability to transform information from everyday experiences into the most sublime works of art, lit...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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35:55
027 - Lauren Lee McCarthy. Building Intimacy Through Technology.
In this episode, we speak to the artist and computer programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy. In her work, she creates artworks that use a variety of media and techniques, including performance, artificial intelligence, and programmed computer-based int...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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43:54
026 - Michael Hendrix and Panos Panay. What Musical Minds Can Teach Us About Innovation.
In this episode, Michael Hendrix, a partner, and Global Director of Design at IDEO and Panos Panay, Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Innovation at Berklee, speak with us about what businesses should learn from the music industry, h...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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50:40
025 - Dr. Elif Gokcigdem. Empathy as a Way of Being.
In this episode, Dr. Elif Gokcigdem, the founder of Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative speaks with us about how empathy can be strengthened by museums and beyond. For her, empathy is not a buzzword, but rather a way of being.Dr...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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49:22
024 - Domhnaill Hernon. Humanizing Tech: Experiments in Art and Technology.
In this episode, Domhnaill Hernon, the Head of Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.) at Nokia Bell Labs speaks with us about innovation as a cultural change, bringing humans back to the center of design, and the history of creativity at B...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:24