Mountain Collective Podcast

Niek Pulles (born 1986, Arnhem) is a Dutch contemporary artist. He graduated in 2009 at the Design Academy Eindhoven, establishing studio HEYNIEK in Amsterdam shortly thereafter. In 2016 he moved to Portland, OR where he continues his art and design practice (Nike NSW FUEL / Special projects and innovation). Through the use of inventive material and technology, his work asks us questions about who...

Abner Preis is a story-teller whose work is rooted in personal aspirations to give one hope in a situation that seems hopeless, to transfer the ability to laugh at sadness, and to seduce viewers into seeing beauty in bleak objects by offering compositions that play to emotion before aesthetics. What his extensive research, sensitivity and awareness provide is the simple and extremely difficult abi...

Giancarlo Pazzanese is a communications professional with experience in visual arts, academic publishing, social media, and marketing. At the Amsterdam Fashion Academy, Giancarlo is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Communications, Visual Merchandising and Contextual Studies. In his lectures, he combines his interest in art, technology, culture and fashion.

Maarten Sukel is the AI lead of the City of Amsterdam and a researcher at the University of Amsterdam.  Examples of projects he has been working on are a system that automatically routes services requests and the urban Object Detection Kit(www.odk.ai), a system capable of detecting issues on the streets of the city.  The City of Amsterdam AI team works on researching and developing new AI technolo...

Winner of Major StartUp League by DELL. Web-technology that changes e-commerce forever. Expivi offers the first web-based 3D configuration platform with focuses on eCommerce options, online 3D visualizations, user behavior analytics, VR / AR showcases and caters supply chain reports in real-time. SaaS. Expivi is an online 3D product configuration platform for better visualization, better communica...

Max believes in communication and collaboration as important keys to create and implement innovation with a holistic sustainable foundation. One significant challenge lies within the question how to bridge and translate between different disciplines/industries and their workplaces cultures.

Brand strategy in relation to our nature. A great interview with brand strategist Ricardo van der Graaf. Ricardo van der Graaf has a great history of experience with brands such as Amsterdam Fashion Institute, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Design Academy Eindhoven, G-Star RAW, Van Gogh Museum and Wrangler Creating relevance starts with understanding the Zeitgeist. Brands only succeed by building me...

A self-motivated, ambitious, and performance-focused entrepreneur and founder of REBLIKA - The Character Company, with a vision " to become world's No 1 Character company and crossing the uncanny valley by 2025." REBLIKA is all about a unique experience. It is an image changing concept focused on providing avatar and 3d scanning service to delivering a unique and the best in class Digital humans....

Yonni de Haar is a freelance 3D Artist. He loves to work on a variety of projects, that are modern, unique and technically challenging. He works remote + internationally, for a variety of companies from Branding Studio’s, to Ad Agencies, Fashion houses and Technology companies. He loves exploring new formats of visual communication and look for ways of innovation.

AR, AI, Machine learning, Deep learning, Full body tracking in fashion, we talked about all of these exciting technologies in this episode with Stephan Klimpke.  Stephan founded Vyking in 2016 and led a team to release computer vision face tracking technology used in AR media campaigns in the UK and US, Launched Beta Version of Vyking AR SDK framework in July 2017, closed 5+ paid brand beta tests...

The work of fashion designer Gary Symor is reminiscent of the transparency of mathematical beauty that one can find in the philosophy of architecture. His vision is a symbiosis between sensuality and technology. The combination of Gary's Surinamese roots with his respect for technology, industrial design and architecture creates a unique and infectious blend that exudes rhythm, vibrancy and invent...

Michel Reihac is a narrative architect and long-time transmedia and immersive media pioneer. Michel Reilhac is known as a leading international expert for innovation in hybrid storytelling across participatory, interactive and immersive experiences. As the Head of Studies at the Venice Biennale College, the VR competition curator for the Venice Biennale International Film Festival since its inaugu...

Ivano Salonia is an XR Artist, with interests on creating narratives and speculative concepts in digital realms, world building and exploring alternative workflows for art and content creation. If the medium is the message, the process is the key.

Jack Connors is an innovation Manager at the University of Arts London, working with researchers, students, government, SMEs and multi-nationals to develop and scale innovative solutions to the fashion and textiles sector's biggest challenges. Background in sustainability and health, developing strategies to improve environmental sustainability and getting more people, more active, more often on a...