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Michela Magas
Michela Magas is a designer, entrepreneur and innovation specialist, of Croatian-British nationality, and is the first woman from the Creative Industries to receive the European Woman Innovator of the Year award by the European Commission. Family and education She is the daughter of the architects Olga and Boris Magaš, and was raised in Rijeka, Croatia, where she was educated at Italian elementary and secondary schools, before graduating in design from the Royal College of Art in London. Career From 1995 until the end of 2000 she worked at the ''Financial Times'', as a designer, becoming Art Editor. She is the co-founder, with Peter Russel-Clarke (designer), Peter Russell-Clarke, of the London-based design innovation lab Stromatolite, whose clients include Nike, Inc., Nike, Nokia and Apple Inc., Apple. She is the founder of Music Tech Fest, and chairs the Industry Commons Foundation. In December 2019 she was recognised as an "Outstanding Peer Reviewer" by Leonardo, the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Tech Fest
MTF Labs AB is a Swedish company which runs labs, festivals and events to encourage cross-sector collaboration and innovation through creative work, particularly music. Its origins go back to 2012 when founder Michela Magas established Music Tech Fest, a 3-day festival in London where people from different disciplines gathered to invent and showcase new formats and platforms for musical performance and expression. By 2016 this had evolved into a series of 5-day experimental labs – MTF Labs – where participants work to create hybrid technologies using cutting-edge source material provided by industry and academic partners. The stated aim of these labs is to “address grand challenges through curiosity, ingenuity and collaborative making.” It has been hosted worldwide by partners including Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research New England, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London, with participants such as Viktoria Modesta, Anouk W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |