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Ivan Cash is an American interactive artist, filmmaker, and speaker. His work celebrates human connection and explores themes of belonging in the 21st century. In 2016, Cash was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 Artist, [1] and in 2018 was appointed a member of the USPS Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. [2]
In 2011, Cash and co-creator Andy Dao stamped fact-based infographics onto dollar bills to inform the public about America's wealth disparity. [3]
Occupy George exhibited in museums and festivals around the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the YBCA in San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum, and Ars Electronica in Austria.
In 2014, Cash and Dao were commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum to design stamps about the UK's wealth disparity on the £5 note. This stamp became an interactive component at the Disobedient Objects exhibit. [4]
Snail Mail My Email [5] is a community art project that lasted from 2011 to 2017, where volunteers transformed strangers’ emails into handwritten letters, free of charge.
2,000 volunteers artistically interpreted and sent 29,249 letters to 80 countries throughout the span of the project.
The project later was published as a book [6] of the same name.
In 2013, Cash and co-creator Jeff Greenspan launched collaborative art project Selfless Portraits, where strangers across the world drew each other's Facebook profile pics. [7] Over 50,000 drawings were submitted from 153 countries during the project's 3-year span between 2013 and 2015.
In 2015, Cash designed and installed official-looking ‘No-Tech Zone’ signs in parks across San Francisco. The signs encouraged passersby to question the role technology plays in people's lives and the environment. [8]
In 2018, Cash launched IRL Glasses, a pair of glasses that block screens, to catalyze a conversation about human's relationship to technology. [9] The crowdfunding campaign raised $140,000 in one month from over 2,000 Kickstarter backers. IRL Glasses were a Kickstarter staff pick and a FastCompany World Changing Ideas Finalist in 2019. [10]
2019 FastCompany World Changing Ideas Finalist
2019 Adweek Creative 100
2018 Kickstarter Staff Pick
2016 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Artist
2016 Brooklyn Museum Exhibit
2015 Print "New Visual Artist" (15 Under 30)
2015 Vimeo Staff Pick
2014 Jury ADC Young Guns
2014 Original Art Commission, V&A Museum
2014 Webby Honoree
2014 Vimeo Staff Pick
2014 Webby Official Nominee
2013 Jury ADC Young Guns
2012 ADC Young Guns Award
2012 Webby Nominee
2012 Cannes Lions, Shortlist
2010 Fabrica Fellowship Award
Last Photo Project, 2013-2015
Howard's Farm, 2014
Agent of Connection, 2017
Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks. Hashcash was proposed in 1997 by Adam Back and described more formally in Back's 2002 paper "Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure". In Hashcash the client has to concatenate a random number with a string several times and hash this new string. It then has to do so over and over until a hash beginning with a certain amount of zeros is found.
The Mail & Guardian, formerly the Weekly Mail, is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular culture.
Eric Alexander Wareheim is an American comedian, actor, writer, director, musician, and winemaker. He is best known as one half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric, alongside Tim Heidecker. He also had a recurring role on the Netflix series Master of None.
Vimeo, Inc. is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices. Vimeo's business model is through software as a service (SaaS). They derive revenue by providing subscription plans for businesses and content creators. Vimeo provides its subscribers with tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting, enterprise software solutions, as well as the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. As of December 2021, the site has 260 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services.
Elan Lee is an American game designer, developer, and creator. He has designed games for the Xbox; helped create the world’s first Alternate Reality Games; and with Matthew Inman created the card game Exploding Kittens, whose Kickstarter campaign was the most-backed of its day. He and Inman founded the Exploding Kittens company in 2015.
Jonathan Dagan, known by his stage name J.Views, is a two-time Grammy nominated musician based in New York.
Video email, also referred to as email video or video in email, refers to the embedding of videos directly into the body of an email, without the need to attach files or click on a hyperlink to play them. Although video email providers have existed since the early-to-mid 2000s, it has become an increasingly popular medium for email marketing in recent years due to technological advancements, and is used to boost engagement rates. Several companies use video email to showcase their brand identity, send out newsletters, and announce events, product lines or launches. Examples of video email providers include EyeMail Inc., TailoredMail, MailChimp, Biteable, BombBomb, and SalesMail.
Aaron Koblin is an American digital media artist and entrepreneur best known for his innovative use of data visualization and his pioneering work in crowdsourcing, virtual reality, and interactive film. He is co-founder and president of virtual reality company Within, founded with Chris Milk. The company created the popular virtual reality fitness app Supernatural, which was acquired by Meta in 2023. Formerly he created and lead the Data Arts Team at Google in San Francisco, California from 2008 to 2015.
Behance, stylized as Bēhance, is a social media platform owned by Adobe whose main focus is to showcase and discover creative work.
Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of February 2023, Kickstarter has received US$7 billion in pledges from 21.7 million backers to fund 233,626 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects.
The Oatmeal is a webcomic and humor website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Inman. It offers original comics, quizzes, and occasional articles. Inman has produced a series of Oatmeal books with content from the webcomic and previously unpublished material, related board games, and other merchandise. The website won the Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic in 2014.
PledgeMusic was an online direct-to-fan music platform, launched in August 2009. It was started to facilitate musicians looking to pre-sell, market, and distribute projects; such as recordings and concerts. It bore similarities to other artist payment platforms as ArtistShare, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, RocketHub and Sellaband.
Jason Zada is an American film director, music video director, screenwriter and digital marketeer, best known for Elf Yourself, an interactive viral holiday season campaign for OfficeMax, and for Take This Lollipop, an interactive horror short film created to raise awareness of the danger of placing too much personal information online.
Refinery29 (R29) is an American multinational digital media and entertainment website focused on young women. It is owned by Sundial Media Group.
Giphy, styled as GIPHY, is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share animated GIF files.
Jessica Walsh is an American designer, art director, illustrator and educator. She was a partner of the design studio Sagmeister & Walsh (2010–2019), and the founder of the creative agency &Walsh (2019–present). &Walsh is one of the .1% of creative agencies owned by women. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts (SVA).
castAR was a Palo Alto–based technology startup company founded in March 2013 by Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson. Its first product was to be the castAR, a pair of augmented reality and virtual reality glasses. castAR was a founding member of the nonprofit Immersive Technology Alliance.
Jamin Warren is co-founder and chief executive of Kill Screen, a video game arts and culture company that The New Yorker called "the McSweeney's of interactive media". He was formerly the host of the PBS webseries Game/Show (2013-2016). Warren also founded Twofivesix, a marketing agency preparing brands for the future of play and interactivity.
Niv Acosta is a transgender American dancer, choreographer and artist. His project Discotropic was featured in the Triennial at the New Museum in 2015. Acosta aims to address larger modern concepts through his work and his work revolves around race and performance.
LA Game Space was a nonprofit organization focused on experimental game design, research and education. The crowdfunded project planned to open an exhibition space in Los Angeles, along with a research wing, a space for workshops and support for artists in residence. The organization exceeded its crowdfunding target in 2012, but closed down in 2018 having failed to open a physical venue.
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