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\"womanlightbulb<\/a>\u201cThere is a revolution. It’s a human and technological revolution. It’s motion and emotion. It’s information. It’s visual. It’s musical. It’s sensorial. It’s conceptual. It’s universal. It’s beyond words and numbers. It’s happening. The natural progression of science and art finding each other to better touch and define the human experience. There is a revolution in the way that we think, in the way that we share, and the way that we express our stories, our evolution. This is a time of communication, connection, and creative collaboration.<\/em>“
\n \u2013 Natasha Tsakos, Director\/Actor<\/p>\n

This year, we chose five women who embody this \u201crevolution\u201d; women who re-engineer the human experience by melding art, science and technology to create boundary breaking projects with enduring socio-cultural impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

We begin with a transformational performance artist who redefines the \u201cpop-star\u201d and uses evolution to convey her inner experience; add an entertainment executive who wants to inject the female perspective in gaming; mix in a Belgian trained computer scientist who explores the human-computer interaction and ways to augment human intelligence; blend in a composer who breathes life into complex data sets; top it off with a lawyer who studies virtual worlds and strives to bring openness and transparency to government.<\/p>\n

Each woman has altered our experience of music, play, search, data and government. They create \u201cThe Project\u201d; a manifestation of their passions, that harnesses \u201cThe convergence\u201d of art, science, engineering, new media\u00a0 and technology; the use principles from the open source movement, <\/strong> collaborative design, democratization, that result in \u201cThe Impact\u201d; the shift in society from fixed to dynamic, closed to open, uni-sensory to multi-sensory, from citizens as passive recipients of information to activists engaged in social change. \"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Lady Gaga \u2013 Performance Artist, Entertainer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026IT\u2019S NOT JUST ABOUT THE MUSIC. IT\u2019S ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE, THE ATTITUDE, THE LOOK; IT\u2019S EVERYTHING.\u201d
\n Lady Gaga embodies a pulsating soul that entices the audience into her mental imagery through innovative use of music, art and design.<\/p>\n

The Project:<\/strong> Monster Ball \u201cpop-electro opera\u201d and the theme of Evolution \u2013
\n \u201c\u2026we started talking about evolution and the evolution of humanity and how we begin as one thing, and we become another.”
\n Lady Gaga\u2019s transformation washes over the audience in an explosion of color, sound, texture and tech to unleash an unforgettable sensory experience.<\/p>\n

The Convergence:<\/strong> Employs a multi-disciplinary Haus of Gaga design team; who crafts everything from a stage that upends traditional viewing to iPod glasses; Lady Gaga engages in visceral social networking \u201cI WANT TO INVITE YOU ALL TO THE PARTY. I WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL A PART OF THIS LIFESTYLE.\u201d. She wields art, science and technology like a sorceress; her Heartbeats headphones reflect the fusion of fashion, gadgetry and seduction; the product description entices you \u201cBecause when your music sounds amazing, you stop hearing it, and start feeling it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Impact:<\/strong> Lady Gaga has re-engineered the female pop-star and become a cultural phenom. \u201cNOW, I\u2019M JUST TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD ONE SEQUIN AT A TIME.\u201d she has already met the Queen; won countless awards, is featured on multiple high profile shows,\u00a0 top 10 lists; the New York Times describes the Lady G\u2019s \u201cpersona\u201d as \u201c\u2026 an amalgam of surfaces, faceted though not truly 3-D, addictive in the way video games are\u201d. The world is entranced.<\/p>\n

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Torrie Dorrell \u2014 Game\/Entertainment industry executive, Sony Online<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026I am challenging everyone to take action to help level the playing field for women pursuing a career in video games.\u201d
\n According to the Entertainment Software Association 2009
\n 43% online game players are female; women over 18 are one of the industry’s fastest growing demographics.\u00a0Adult women\u00a0outnumber game-playing boys < =17 game-playing population (34 % vs. 18%) (3) but only about 10% women in the industry
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The Project: <\/strong>(Games in Real Life) G.I.R.L program & scholarship: the initiative is designed \u201c.to positively impact the way females are depicted in video games and create and influence content to be appealing to women \u201c . The GIRL scholarship encourages diversity on game dev teams and helps recruit more women in game production and design.<\/p>\n

The Convergence:<\/strong> Ms. Dorrell embraces the emerging social nature of gaming and leverages both group collaboration and social media techniques to maximize momentum for her cause: “..even though many companies have their own programs to help bring more women into the field, why not combine forces to create something that is truly kick-ass?”; she has forged several successful partnerships with associations such as the International Game Developers association (IGDA) and design institutes.<\/p>\n

The Impact: <\/strong>Ms. Dorrel wants to expand the definition of \u201cgamer\u201d; she is the 21st century emissary of the female perspective in gaming;
\n There are several award winning women working on the upcoming Sony massive multimedia online games, The Agency\u2026and the current tween hit Free Realms.<\/p>\n

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Pattie Maes:\u00a0 Associate Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences, MIT; Founder Fluid Interfaces Research Group<\/strong><\/span>
\n An expert in \u201chuman-computer interaction, intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing.\u201d
\n Her mission \u201c\u2026to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive. We are changing the human-machine relationship and creating systems that are more responsive to people’s needs and actions, and that become true “accessories” for expanding our minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Project:<\/strong> The SixthSense prototype: Patti\u2019s \u201cSixth\u201d sense is the ability to unlock our data from devices and to interact with this information in the physical world. The SixthSense is a $350 pocket projector, mirror and camera. This \u201cwearable gestural interface\u201d bathes our environment in digital information, responds and adapts to our natural gestures, allowing us to play with information and ultimately harness it for our specific needs
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\n The Convergence: <\/strong>Her faculty appointment at MIT \u201cMedia, Arts and Science\u201d says it all. Her research exemplifies the inevitable merging of human and computers \u201cto form collective intelligence. This collaboration can be harnessed by humans as the so called, \u201csixth sense\u201d.
\n Pattie\u2019s Fluid Interface Group team is on its way to fulfilling another Ray Kuzweil (the Futurist) prophecy \u201c[computing] is \u2026going to be embedded in the environment, in our clothing\u2026 \u201c<\/p>\n

The Impact:<\/strong> Professor Maes wants to \u201cuntether\u201d us from the tyranny of the computing \u201cbox\u201d : SixthSense\u2019 frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JoAnnKuchera<\/a>Jo-Anne Kuchera-Morin \u2014 Professor of Composition, Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara ; Director, AlloSphere Research Facility <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are scientists who have lost the ability to perceive their data. Now they [may] perceive this data again through portals that let them see and hear their data, not just see a string of numbers.\u201d
\n Professor Kuchera-Mornin\u2019s training as composer has undoubtedly ignited this vision of enlisting multiple senses in the analysis of complex data sets for both research and entertainment.<\/p>\n

The Project:<\/strong> The \u201cAllosphere\u201d: Those lucky enough to visit the \u201cmulti-user interactive space\u201d\u2026[..] a 30-foot diameter sphere built inside a 3-story near-to-anechoic cube\u201d, experience complete immersion in a tantalizing array of visual and aural representations of data with both research and entertainment applications. The concept conjures up a Laurie Anderson concert melded with a multiplayer online game.<\/p>\n

The Convergence:<\/strong> The pluripotent nature of the \u201cAllosphere\u201d concept\u00a0 as both research tool and performance piece. It \u201cbrings together art, science, engineering and the cognitive sciences..\u201d<\/p>\n

The Impact:<\/strong> Professor Kuchera-Morin wants to change the way we think, feel and interpret data; her hope is that enriched platforms such as Allosphere will help us uncover novel patterns in data that may solve vexing problems in engineering, biology, physics and beyond:
\n \u201cwe are also quantifying things that are almost spiritual. We’re advancing the nature of who and what we are and the nature of the universe.\u201d
\n Additionally, Allosphere can be used as an \u201c instrument for the creation and performance of avant-garde new works and the development of entirely new modes and genres of expression and forms of immersion-based entertainment, fusing future art, architecture, music, media, games, cinema, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"3946656447<\/a>Beth Simone Noveck \u2014Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, Professor law , Director Institute for Information Law and Policy , New York Law School and Founder Do Tank and State of Play<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Noveck explores \u201chow technology changes the way communities cohere and how new technologies might help us to transform from private actors into public citizens.\u201d Her research includes virtual worlds, electronic democracy and open government.<\/p>\n

The Projects(s):<\/strong><\/span> Do Tank & State of Play\/ Open Government Initiative \u2013The Do Tank(2) is a \u201cfirst-of-its kind legal R&D lab where lawyers innovate, harnessing the new tools of information and communications to the goals of social justice.\u201d This \u2018Democracy Design Workshop\u2019 develops graphical and visual prototypes that empower people to create collaborative networks for social and political change. The Do Tank website is like a progressive \u2018app store\u2019, replete with legal and software code designed for social activists. This goal is \u201cto foster open, transparent and collaborative ways of learning, working and governing.\u201d She has taken this thinking to the Obama administration as Director of White House Open Government Initiative<\/p>\n

Her other projects, State of Play conference is a global, multidisciplinary \u2018virtual worlds\u2019 research conference created to evaluate the current and future impact of virtual environments on \u201ceducation, law, politics and society.\u201dThe offshoot, State of Play \u2018Academy \u2018is an \u201cexperimental space for studying the impact of virtual worlds on learning and teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Convergence:<\/strong> Open source movement principles and collaboration themes pervade her work; there is fusion of digital democratic principles, crowd-sourcing , and the application of virtual world research to social & political change<\/p>\n

The Impact:<\/strong> Miss Noveck wants to crack open government to the rest of us through \u201ctransparency, participation, collaboration,\u201d To appreciate the full impact of her ideas, we should probably grab her book\u00a0 \u201cWiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful \u201c<\/p>\n

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