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Founder Scott Snibbe profiled on CNN’s Next List

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Snibbe Interactive founder Scott Snibbe was the featured innovator on CNN’s The Next List, which profiles forward-looking thinkers in the fields of tech, science and social change. Clips are below!

Producer Tracy Dorsey brought her crew to Snibbe Interactive headquarters in San Francisco for a three-day shoot that resulted in an intimate and extensive portrait of Snibbe, who, among other projects, reflects on his recent work with James Cameron’s interactive “Avatar” exhibition at the EMP Museum, and Bjork’s breakthrough Biophilia App.

What’s next? Says Dorsey, “He envisions a fully participatory experience, one where your movements will actually change the story and affect what happens around you. It may sound far-fetched, but Scott says all he needs is the right partner.”

InfoTiles in WIRED Times Square Store

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Titan tech magazine WIRED reprised its annual holiday pop-up store in New York City’s Times Square, featuring among others, Snibbe Interactive client Dell Computer.It’s not just a shopping destination, as WIRED’s site explains, “it’s an interactive experience that allows you to touch, test and tinker with the most ‘wired’ products out there for the digital  gentleman, gadget girl, gastronaut, smarter upstarter, adventure capitalist, maker, or culturazzo in your life.”In keeping with the “interactive experience” WIRED envisioned, Dell turned to Snibbe Interactive to provide a customized installation of our popular InfoTiles interactive wall display to showcase their WIRED-worthy products.

“Their customization was interesting in that they added videos hidden amongst the tiles that, when activated, brought up animated shorts of new Dell products and corresponding characters like an ‘inventor’ or a ‘genius,’” says exhibits manager Patrick Wilson. “They’ve done it in a real sleek look with a really pared down color palette. It’s all blacks and blues and whites, which fits in well with the technology showcased at the WIRED Store.”

After WIRED’s pop-up retail experience runs it’s course, Dell’s InfoTiles will likely travel next to Texas where Dell is headquartered.

“The beauty about this sort of installation is that it’s not only customizable it’s portable and can be used in a variety of settings and updated with new content to match new venues and promotions,” says Wilson.

Scott Snibbe explores education and apps at TEDxLondon

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

In this interesting talk from September’s TEDxLondon, subtited “Education Revolution,” Snibbe Interactive founder Scott Snibbe reminds that “math was invented to model nature.” He explored this and other notions while working on Bjork’s critically-lauded iPad app and album project Biophilia. In this video, Snibbe recounts the creative process as well as demonstrates the live integration of the app into Bjork’s interactive onstage performances.

“Sometimes education misses the poetry, motion and wonder of the natural world,” says Snibbe, who points to the possibilities of iPads and apps as a means of combining educational initiatives with entrepreneurial pursuits. He added wryly, “I pledge to continue making art that tricks people into learning about science.”