IMZ ACADEMY SESSION 2018: “Brand, Media + Technology – How Emotions Enhance Your Brand“
23 March 2018
In the course of Karajan Music Tech Conference, Salzburg/Austria
Brands are driving the value of products in all industries. With new technologies being developed faster than ever before, media and music producers need to tell their branded stories on multiple channels and across various technologies at the same time. Obviously, this poses new challenges on operational as well as financial levels.
In corporation with the Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute, this IMZ Academy Session explored the opportunities and challenges arising at the intersection of brand and technology.
The session was moderated by Annina Zwettler (Program Coordinator & New Media at ARTE Germany) with expert speakers Angela Alvarez Rilla (Co-founder and Executive Producer at Sintonia Media), Sven Sören Beyer (Founder and Artistic Director at phase7 performing arts) and Frank Gerdes (Head of Cultural Department at Servus TV) provided their unique insights.
SPEAKERS
Annina Zwettler
Program Coordinator & New Media at ARTE Germany (Host)
Annina has been with ARTE Germany since 2014. In her role she works on the French-German broadcaster’s content and digital properties strategy, and latest developments such as VR and AR. Before, she was a curator and project manager at the Center of Art and Media – ZKM l Karlsruhe and Technisches Museum Wie
Angela Alvarez Rilla
Co-founder and Executive Producer at Sintonia Media
Angela is a Creative Producer of high end, multi-platform content like branded content for institutions and corporations, cultural and music programmes as well as live and recorded programs. She has extensive experience in managing the financing, technical development, creative process and distribution of all digital, television and cinema formats.
Sven Sören Beyer
Founder and Artistic Director at phase7 performing arts
Sven’s crossmedia aesthetics, his fascination for high-end technical developments and his mesmerizing combination of performing arts and media art lead him to found phase7 in 1999. With phase7 he staged independent art projects like “traces” and “words all over” at the New Vision Arts festival Hongkong, the cross-media performance “delusions” at Staatsoper Stuttgart/Forum Neues Musiktheater, the International Bergen Festival 2013 with the outdoor performance “Murmuration” and the walk-through opera “Celestial Mechanics” in cooperation with the Deutsche Oper Berlin 2013. For his realization of Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldmans opera “NEITHER ” via wave field synthesis Beyer was awarded with the OPUS German Stage Award 2013.
Frank Gerdes
Head of Cultural Department at Servus TV
Since July 2009 Frank Gerdes is working at the cultural department of ServusTV (Austria), since 2010 as Head of cultural department. Based in Salzburg he is developing and producing TV programmes for the TV channel – including several award-winning documentaries such as „Traces to Nowhere – The Conductor Carlos Kleiber“ (2010) or „Karajan – The Second Life“ (2012).
Prior to that he was responsible for project development at EuroArts Music International and has developed and produced various cultural television programmes (performance projects, documentaries) as well as international media projects such as „24 hours Mozart“ and “24 hours Bach”.
