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Seven on Seven: Rhizome + Chopt + Salad For President

Location: New York, NY

This past week Chopt collaborated with Julia Sherman of Salad For President to host a dinner for a special project by Rhizome, a platform for art and technology affiliated with the New Museum. It was the beginning of Seven on Seven, a weekend-long conference that would bring together artists and tech professionals to collaborate on something, or just have an unlikely and inspiring exchange (given the caliber of the participants, that was guaranteed). The evening was held in the Sky Room at the New Museum, with sweeping views of the city, and there was even the brief appearance of  double rainbow. The meal was vegetarian, with two-toned borscht and coconut cream, whole roasted cauliflower and a tatsoi salad with a yuzu koshu coconut oil dressing.

It was our ambition that this dinner reflect our common commitment to the collision of adjacent worlds, and the great things that come when smart people make stuff together. Collaboration should be complicated, challenging and often times, a real pain in the ass. It’s easier to forge ahead alone than to invite the checks and balances of another perspective, but then, you’d be missing the point -- when a partnership works, both parties exceed their own potential, and the opportunity for growth is without parallel.

* photo credit BFA / Madison McGaw

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What if We Invented a Realtime Metric For Presentations?

Good ideas can be hard to come by. That's why there are groups and companies today that create environments which foster innovation and inspire others.

Rhizome's Seven on Seven event does exactly this. Notable technologists and artists are  paired together and given 24 hours to collaboratively create/hack something to be presented in front of an interested audience the following day. We've attended Seven on Seven for the past 3 years, always eager to see what's created.

One breakthrough concept this year was developed by Jeremy Bailey, a media artist, and Julie Uhrman, founder of OUYA, an open-source videogame console. They worked together to create an augmented reality app that sends real-time feedback on audience engagement to presenters, allowing them to monitor reactions on their portable devices as they go. The app tracks and gauges audience engagement through metrics like laughter level, movement on stage, and tweets.

While many innovators in the technology space focus solely on rethinking the user interface and narrative flow of a presentation (think Prezi) Jeremy Bailey and Julie Uhrman's work suggests that perhaps it's also important for presenters to be better connected to their audience and have metrics in place that provide real-time feedback. Adding this dynamic to the presentation harnesses a presenter's competitive spirit and keeps them on their toes.

If you'd like the scoop on all Seven on Seven presentations, read a full synopsis of the event here.