Business Artistry with Nir Hindie

In this episode, Michael Hendrix, a partner, and Global Director of Design at IDEO and Panos Panay, Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Innovation at Berklee, speak with us about what businesses should learn from the music industry, how failure is necessary for learning, and how we can create better partnerships. In 2021, Panay and R. Michael Hendrix, global design director at IDEO, co-w...

In this episode, Dr. Elif Gokcigdem, the founder of Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative speaks with us about how empathy can be strengthened by museums and beyond. For her, empathy is not a buzzword, but rather a way of being. Dr. Gokcigdem has a passion for helping people develop their empathy through art. In addition to the Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative, she is the editor o...

In this episode, Domhnaill Hernon, the Head of Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.) at Nokia Bell Labs speaks with us about innovation as a cultural change, bringing humans back to the center of design, and the history of creativity at Bell Labs. Domhnaill is passionate about turning research/ideas into reality and exploring the bounds of creativity to push the limits of technology. He curr...

Are you ready for season two? In Season 2, we will be releasing conversations with Ben Grosser, the artist who invented the Facebook Demetricator; Domhnaill Hernon, VP of Research and Innovation and Head of Experiments in Art and Technology at Bell Labs; Elif Gokcigdem, founder of the Summit on Empathy and Museums; and many more. They will be discussing how artists think, how art can influence bus...

This bonus track is part of a series of interviews we conducted for episode 23 Draw Everywhere: Space and Quantum Computing Art with Forest Stearns. This time we interview Tara O’Shea, the director of forest programs at Planet. We spoke about her relationship with the artists-in-residence program at Planet and how it can promote inclusivity in a company.

Launching on March 25th, Shaping Business Minds Through Art season 2 will include even more conversations about how artists think, how art drives innovation, and why business professionals should adopt the artist’s mindset, told by leaders from the arts and companies such as Google, Bell Labs, IDEO, and more. Click here to see past episodes. Subscribe today!

This bonus track is part of a series of interviews we conducted for episode 23 Draw Everywhere: Space and Quantum Computing Art with Forest Stearns. This time we interview Joseph Mascaro, a space ecologist, writer, and science advisor, as well as Ben Haldeman, the founder and CEO at Lifeship. We spoke about their experiences with art and how it created space for unique problem-solving and gives pe...

This bonus track is part of a series of interviews we conducted for episode 23 Draw Everywhere: Space and Quantum Computing Art with Forest Stearns.  This time we interview Briand Monteiro, an artist and a mechanical engineer at Blue Canyon Technologies, and Cyrus Foster, Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer at Space X. We spoke about their encounter with art in a space company and ho...

In this bonus track, we chat with Jierui Fang, a design strategist, and a recent MIT graduate. We wanted to learn from her about gen Z and their perception of art in the business environment. This conversation was recorded as part of episode number 20 with Sam Magee where we discussed creative entrepreneurship at Harvard and MIT. To listen to the original episode or see the show notes click here .

In this episode, Forest Stearns, a space and quantum computing artist speaks with us about art exhibitions that started in the desert, moved to Space, and now are on Quantum computers at Google. Forest Stearns an artist, an adventurer, speaks with us about innovation, creative permission in business environments, and why he works quite often with scientists. Stearns has a passion for founding Arti...

On Friday, December 11, Airbnb went public. One of the unique unicorns of its time, Airbnb quickly stabilized on a market value of almost 100B$.   While it is a tech company, Airbnb's founders are not. In this episode, we share the art behind the Airbnb story and how two founders leveraged their creative background to build this company. Click here to see the show notes with links, videos, an...

In this episode, we speak to the artist Nathalie Miebach. In her work, she takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play. We talked about data visualization, data representation, the potential of data, and much more. See show notes that include videos, l...

In this episode, we speak to Sam Hunter Magee, the associate director at the Leamn program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship at Harvard University. Magee discusses, why Harvard University, just like MIT, has a platform to allow students to mix art, creativity with business? How these programs help in building creative entrepreneurs? What are the benefits for engineering and business professionals...

In this episode, we talk to the artist and designer, Liliana Farber.  Farber explores how the internet can create legal, technological, and emotional experiences. In her work, she investigates ways the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected material from the Internet, she creates images, installations, and interactive works. Surveillance, anonymity, storytel...

In this episode, Madeline Gannon, an artist and researcher, talks to us about why industrial robots are her interest, how she convinces robots to do things they were never intended to do, and what it means to live with them. As one of the "The World's 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics," - She is the Robot Whisperer. Click here to see the show notes, videos, transcript, and more on...

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Marc Moss and Katherine Reed, who run and collaborate in the Colorado Resiliency Arts Lab at the University of Colorado Medical Campus. What does it mean to build resiliency among medical care teams? Why art is the way to do so? How medical teams actually building their resilience through the program? How is the program teaching resiliency? All these questions and m...

In this episode, we host Shun Matsuzaka, Digital Creative Director at McCann. Matsuzaka created the world’s first AI creative director, capable of directing a TV commercial. We discussed the future of creative work, creative AI, and its abilities; we heard about genetic design, how robots can help us with creativity, and what parents need to remember about their kids’ education. Click to visit the...

In this episode, we speak to Jim McKelvey, a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of Square, a financial payments company, together with Jack Dorsey. McKelvey is also a glass artist who always works at the intersection of technology, art, and entrepreneurship. He speaks about innovation management, entrepreneurial skills and mindset, and why entrepreneurs and business people are different. Click...

In this episode, we speak to Dr. Yossi Vardi, a technology entrepreneur, and investor. As one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs, Yossi has a deep understanding of technology and startups. He talks about why technology and art are connected, what tech entrepreneurs need to think about, what Kinnernet, the imagination festival he founded,  is, and much more. Click here for show note, li...

In this episode, we talk to Ariane Koek, a world leader in the field of science and art. She is the initiator and Founding Director of Arts at Cern (2009-2015), the writer of the book Physics and Artistic Imagination, and a curator of many exhibitions in the field. We talk about the interactions artists and scientists have, how scientists see the artists' work, what is the role of imagination...

In this episode, In this episode, we speak to James George. An Emmy-winning artist and entrepreneur. He co-directed the first volumetric film CLOUDS and co-created the original volumetric capture tool, Depthkit. As a multidisciplinary creator, George is involved in groundbreaking works. We discussed his experience as an entrepreneur, how his artistic background shaped his entrepreneurial experienc...

In this episode, we speak with Moon Ribas & Manel de Aguas, two cyborg artists and trans-species activists based in Barcelona. In their work, Ribas and De Aguas create new organs and senses that later were implanted into their body. We speak about the future of technology, how society responds to external organs; why each chose the technology they implanted; what the cyborg art lab is, and muc...

In this episode, we speak with the new media artist and software developer Eran Hadas. Hadas build computer-based poetry generators that utilize the internet for their input what he calls: Augmented Poetry. We discuss creativity in machines, how he wrote a Eurovision song using robots, what he thinks about artists and technologists, his course  Computational Literature course, and much more.  Clic...

In this episode, we learn from David Galenson about the two types of innovators - experimental and conceptual. Galenson has dedicated his life to research the cycle of creativity. If you think that innovation is for the young, after this conversation, you will think differently. Click here for show notes, recommendations, transcript, and more.

In this episode, we host Naomi Kaempfer the Creative Director for Art, Design, and Fashion at Stratasys. In her work, she focuses on growing and championing outstanding collaborations between creatives and Stratasys 3D printing technology. She bridges between innovation and creation, a bridge that not only offers a technological advancement, but also philosophical and cultural growth. She shares w...