CAMP Festival 2016

2016-09-27 00:00:00 2016-09-29 00:00:00 America/Toronto CAMP Festival 2016 CAMP Festival is two solidly packed days of cutting-edge creative technology, art and design, with hand-picked speakers from around the world coming together in Calgary. Calgary FITC Calgary

A Permeable Frame
SESQUI is a touring immersive media festival celebrating 150 years of Canada. Through 360 cinema, interactive installation and Virtual Reality, SESQUI invites audiences to celebrate Canadian creativity and imagine ourselves… Read more…
Inspire Social Innovation VR
Joel McConvey
J.R. McConvey Creative Copy & Communications
A Walk Through The Woods
Nicole will take you on a walk through the woods of starting a business in a place you’ve never lived, then finding work and taking the client beyond their expectations.… Read more…
Nicole Jacek
NJ(L.A.)™
Behave Boldly
Elise Russell is about sticking her neck out to win. In 2012, she quit her job as an award-winning worker bee to be an entrepreneur. It wasn’t a soft transition;… Read more…
Elise Russell
Pony Friday
Brand Bravery: Taking Lessons From The Little Guys
As creatives, our recommendations tend to test the boundaries of our brand’s or client’s comfort zones. Many brands live in constant fear of rocking the boat. They are following industry… Read more…
Business Innovation Strategy
Kathryn Nixon
Critical Mass
Defined by Defiance
This is a personal story of the journey to point B and how defiance became a driving force to stand back up after every knock down. The story is filled with… Read more…
Design Storytelling
Hydro74
Hydro74
Dress/Code
Jessica and Jesse will dissect their attempts to mash-up biology, architecture, computer science and fashion. From futuristic dresses generated from body scans and made entirely by robots to algorithmic studies… Read more…
3D Printing Creative Code Inspire
Learnings From Fast and Furious Prototyping in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is the newest and most exciting platform since the dawn of smart phones, but with each new platform there are growing pains in the development and design techniques.… Read more…
Gaming UX/UI VR
Elbert Perez
HTC
Out of the Box
Michael Muller is often referred to as “the most successful photographer you’ve never heard of”. Closing in on three decades of shooting, Michael’s body of work crosses over every aspect… Read more…
Inspire Storytelling
Michael Muller
MULLER PHOTO INC.
Painting With Sound, Mesh and Shaders
Starting with the “Fall in Love” music video for Phantogram… Joshua became interested in writing code with audio and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to drive animations. Eventually he’d migrate this code into… Read more…
Creative Code Inspire Processing
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis Studios
Prolific Minded
Ash will be discussing his goals as a creative person.  How he dreams big and puts forth optimism, hard work, and focus to obtain his goals.  He will break down how he started to teach himself how… Read more…
Film Inspire VFX
Ash Thorp
Ashthorp.com
Ran With Scissors
Lessons learned, advice given and ignored, things done and more things just talked about because doing any more would just be work. Making more adventures in technology as the projects… Read more…
Storytelling
Stacey Mulcahy
Microsoft Garage
Stories in Motion: Main Titles
What makes a good title sequence? How do you set the tone for a television series or film in 90 seconds? What do Hollywood directors want to see in a… Read more…
Design Film Motion
Danny Yount
Prodigal Pictures
The Collective Throwdown
Watch as industry vets Ash Thorp and Danny Yount grill each other on their process, routine, stories of failure, inspirations and EVERYTHING in between.  All truth. Read more…
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
Come hear the story of the development of PowerCube VR, a multi-player virtual reality homage to Tetris played with a wireless cube controller and originally conceived while brainstorming with friends… Read more…
Inspire Storytelling VR
Denis Lirette
Globacore
The Future of 360 Storytelling
More than just a platform for gamers, VR is quickly becoming a platform for everything. With the introduction of consumer products like Samsung Gear VR and, the soon to be released,… Read more…
Hardware Storytelling VR
The Value of the Analog
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke We live in a technologically sophisticated world, and it’s only developing more. We can (and do) harness this tech to… Read more…
Experiential Inspire Storytelling
Brett Doar
Brett Doar
Truth or Dare
Navigating a creative life isn’t easy. Kim’s done a plethora of embarrassing things, taken a variety of risks and some how gotten to where she is with only a few… Read more…
Inspire Storytelling Work Better
Kim Alpert
Make Amazing Inc
Use Your Designer Superpowers for Good
It turns out that some of the most awesome uses of design and technology are things that many of us have never heard of, and will probably never need ourselves. For example,… Read more…
Inspire Social Innovation
Clarissa Peterson
clarissapeterson.com
Wazey
A 45 minute, real time, audio reactive, audio / visual performance (using FFT, processing, GLSL shaders and HYPE) by Kiran Ghandi and Joshua Davis. Read more…
Audio Creative Code Experiential
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis Studios
Web Developers, Please Meet… The Physical World!
If you are a web developer, you already have most of the necessary knowledge to get started in physical computing. This talk will show you how easy it is to… Read more…
Beginner Hardware JavaScript Web Dev
Jean-Philippe Côté
TangibleJS