Discs to Downloads: New Directions in the Music Industry

Broadway and 4th street
Tuesday January 26th, 7:00pm

What is your $ocial Music Currency?

Broadway and 4th street
Wednesday Feb 3, 6:30pm

Panelists

Elliot Groffman, Music Industry Attorney |firm clients including Dave Matthews Band and Jay-Z
Kevin Patrick, Artist Manager (Matt & Kim, Lord Warddd, Vivian Green)
David Weiss, Co-Founder/Co-Editor SonicScoop.com
Ted Riederer, Featured Artist, "Never Can Say Goodbye "
Oli Stephenson, CTO, CBS Interactive Music Group

Moderator Craig Balsam, Co-Founder Razor & Tie Entertainment

Panelists

QUESTLOVE (National recording artist, drummer from the Roots and the Jimmy Fallon show).
Andrew Katz, Pepsi’s Global Director of Digital & Social Media
Marisa Bangash, Co-Founder of Uncensored Interview

Moderator James Andrews, Co-Founder, BeEverywhere.tv & thekeyinfluencer.com

Artists are using social media as a catalyst to boost popularity; validate possible new revenue streams with advertisers; and for global social good. Soundctrl is exploring the "currency" that social networking increasingly lends to the valuation of an artist's brand and what role it will play in the overarching strategy of an artist's career.

For more information, click www.socialmediaweek.org

Public Art/Alternative Spaces: Local Grass-Roots Iniatives in the Community

51 Bergen St, Brooklyn.

November 4th at 7pm

Public Art/Alternative Spaces: Reconsideration in a New Economic Climate

433 w 16th Street, NYC.

September 23rd at 6:30pm

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Panelists

Ella Weiss, President, Brooklyn Arts Council
Jose Parla, Featured Artist, "Something Out of Nothing"
Catherine Hickey, Director of Retail/Commercial Development of Metrotech BID and sponsor of Willoughby Windows project
Risë Wilson and Petrushka Bazin, Founder and Program Coordinator respectively for The Laundromat Project

Moderator Asher Remy-Toledo

As a follow up to the first panel, this panel focused on the grass roots iniatives  in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Panelists ranged from formal organizations, local residents, artist and a reporter. Panelist offered insight to the inner happenings of art initiatives on a large and small scale. Locals had an opportunity to also comment on their own views of how the art scene has impacted the local neighborhood.

Panelists

Tom Finkelpearl, Director, Queen's Museum of Art
Lauren Ross, Curator, High Line Park
Peter Marcuse, Professor Emeritus Urban Planning, Columbia University
Anita Durst, Director, Chashama
Steve Evans, Assistant Director to Dia Beacon
Sean Slemon, Featured Artist, "Reflecting Transformation"

Moderator Manon Slome

This first panel discussed the changing notion of public art amidst this national economic recession. A variety of panelists offered different standpoints on how public art and alternative spaces may become more sustainable models (or not) in today's economic climate.  Also in the discussion was the nature of audiences to whom the art is addressed, community relations, and art as a medium of urban regeneration.