The Cleveland Institute of Art will host The Art of Disruption: Exploring the Role of Technology in Art + Design and the Creative Economy, a panel discussion in which industry leaders from across the country will bring a new lens to how art, design and technology permeate sectors of the creative economy such as automotive design, health care innovation and entertainment manufacturing.
The discussion will be led by CIA President + CEO Kathryn J. Heidemann. Featured panelists will include:
- Irina Zavatski, Vice President of Design for Chrysler at Stellantis in Detroit and 2001 CIA alum
- Jennifer van Dijk, CEO of Superplastic in Los Angeles
- Kipum Lee, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy & Innovation at University Hospitals of Cleveland and VP of UH Ventures
- Steven Gutierrez, Associate Professor in Game Design at CIA
The Art of Disruption: Exploring the Role of Technology in Art + Design and the Creative Economy will take place from 6 to 8pm Wednesday, November 6 in CIA's Peter B. Lewis Theater. Doors open at 5:30pm.
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.
The event will also serve to launch the public phase of CIA's Transformation Campaign, a comprehensive campaign that focuses on five mission-defining impact areas: technology and innovation, student access and success, teaching and learning, community, and campus facilities. Heidemann will deliver a State of the College address in advance of the panel discussion.
A centerpiece of the Transformation Campaign is CIA's Interactive Media Lab, a state-of-the-art facility that will feature an extended reality (XR) studio, leading-edge virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies, an innovation studio, an arcade that invites students to develop and test their own video games, and more. Following the panel discussion, attendees—led by CIA students and faculty—will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the same technology that will be central to the IML.
The IML is slated to open in early 2025 as part of the Cleveland Foundation's MidTown Collaboration Center, where it will share space with Northeast Ohio companies and institutions leading the way in fields such as healthcare, software development, entrepreneurship and community-based arts.
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