Speakers

• K8 Hardy

  K8 Hardy is an artist, founding member of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR, and creator of the cult zine FashionFashion, which parodies fashion magazines and photography, targeting their portrayal of women and the female body as a site for capitalist consumption. K8 Hardy also directed music videos for groups including Le Tigre, Lesbians on Ecstasy, and Men.

• Laura Hoptman

  Laura Hoptman is Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Previously, Laura was the Curator and head of the Department of Contemporary Art at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, and Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

• Randy Hunt

  Randy Hunt is Creative Director of Etsy, where he leads the team of designers building Web products and creating off-line experiences. Prior to joining Etsy, Randy cofounded Supermarket, a curated design marketplace; founded Citizen Scholar Inc.; and worked at both Milton Glaser, Inc., and Number 17. More recently, he authored the book Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products.

• Jake Barton

  Jake Barton is Principal and founder of Local Projects, a media design firm for museums and public spaces that is currently responsible for creating the media design for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (with Diller Scofidio + Renfro), and the Frank Gehry–designed Eisenhower Presidential Memorial. Jake is recognized as a leader in the field of interaction design for physical spaces, and in the creation of collaborative storytelling projects in which participants generate content.