Kevin Slavin

Kevin Slavin is the Chief Technology Officer of The Shed, the New York City Center for New Art Creation. He encourages artists to use emerging technological means to express contemporary ideas and images, including augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, materials science, and locative media. The Shed is New York's first diverse art center, which will open in the spring of 2019. Kevin is a researcher and serial entrepreneur at the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has created many well-known projects and companies that intersect entertainment, gaming, big data, next-generation technology, and design. As the co founder of Area\/Code2005, Kevin took the lead in rethinking game design and development using new technologies such as GPS and DNA testing, as well as new platforms such as Facebook and iOS. Area\/Code collaborates with numerous institutions such as MTV, Disney, Nokia, Nike, and CBS, and was renamed Zynga New York after being acquired by Zynga in 2011. Before the acquisition, their webpage views exceeded billions and their users exceeded 50 million. In 2013, the Media Laboratory Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ordered Kevin to create a new experimental department, Playful Systems. As a new department, they have established collaborations with chess master Maurice Ashley and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their work has attracted global attention, with reports from major news networks and well-known magazines such as Huffington Post, Discovery, Wired, and New Scientist. Kevin also co founded Everybody at Once, a consulting company that focuses on how viewers and fans interact online with television, movies, and sports. Currently, the company is collaborating with BBC America, BBC News, Starz TV, American public media, and Roma Football Club in Europe. Kevin has worked as a creative director and planner for some large institutions in the United States for 10 years. He has been nominated for most awards in the industry, and Creative Magazine has named him one of the 50 most influential figures in the creative field. As a professor, he teaches in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University, the Microassembly Laboratory at MIT, Fabrica, and Cooper Union at Cooper Union College, and is the Vice Chairman of the Cooper Union Board of Directors. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany \u0308 Modern Kunst exhibition. How algorithms shape the world of big data, finance, and innovation