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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.
Business Artistry with Nir Hindie
048 - Michael Naimark: What Artist-Explorers Know That Corporates Always Forget
What happens when an artist imagines the future decades before the rest of the world catches up?
In this episode, Nir Hindie sits down with pioneering media artist and researcher Michael Naimark, whose work has shaped immersive and interactive media for more than forty years. If you’ve used Google Street View, you’ve seen the shadow of a project he helped create at MIT in the late 1970s: the Aspen Movie Map, a radically early experiment in “surrogate travel.”
Michael’s career moved across some of the most influential innovation environments of the last half-century: MIT, Atari, Lucasfilm, the Apple–Lucas multimedia labs, and Interval Research, Paul Allen’s legendary “five to ten years ahead” laboratory. Across those settings he explored how artists, engineers, and researchers push each other toward breakthroughs that conventional corporate structures rarely allow.
Shownotes:
Michael's website: http://www.naimark.net/
Michael's workshop: MediatedPresence.com
Aspen Movie Map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map
Steve Jobs at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9HmOz8H0qI