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Ivan Cash is an 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
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation and operated by subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation. The project strategy was originally modeled after that of Mozilla's Firefox web browser and is an interface built on top of that web browser.
Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School and the Fluxus movements of the 1960s, though it has since developed into a global movement that continues to the present.
The Webby Awards are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts and technology innovators. Categories include websites, advertising and media, online film and video, mobile sites and apps, and social.
The Mail & Guardian 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. It is considered a newspaper of record for South Africa.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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