Collaboration: The Pathway to Invention

Dana Plautz

Director of Research Communications
Intel

Date: Friday, May 28, 2004
Place: CS Conference Room
_____ Engineering I, Rm. 2114
Time: 4:00 pm — 5:00 pm (Refreshments served at 3:30 pm)

Abstract:
New Media provides a new common ground between art technology and science. This new common ground can catalyze the next generation of breakthroughs, and provide new pathways to innovation, if it is supported by a culture of collaboration. But what makes collaborations work? Is it the availability of new technologies for artists, the availability of new cultures for technologists, or is it the direct collaboration of artists, designers, and scientists? Why do corporations such as Intel nurture art-sci collaborations, and why are these collaborations essential to the high-tech industry? Dana Plautz, Director of Research communications at Intel Corp., will advance these question with examples of successful current and historic collaborations. She will share resources on organizations that nurture or fund collaborative creative projects.

Biography:
Dana Plautz is currently the Director of the Research Communications Department in Intel's Corporate Technology Group as well as chair of the Arts and Entertainment Committee for the Intel Research Council. She started her career at Intel in 1993 in the Multimedia Lab. Prior to joining Intel, Ms. Plautz spent 10 years working in the entertainment industry holding posts as Worldwide Marketing and Creative Director at Hanna-Barbera Studios and as Director of Business Development and New Markets for Norman Lear's Embassy Communications.

Ms. Plautz held an appointment from the Governor of Oregon as Chairman for the Oregon Film and Video Office for 6 years from 1998 though 2003. She currently serves on the board of directors of Eyebeam, and is on the advisory board for the Banff New Media Center, and Portland State Universities Creative Industries Studies Initiative. In the past 10 years, she has lectured extensively on new media and collaboration, served on many boards, steering committees and grant making panels.

Plautz is also an accomplished video producer. Most recently Plautz completed a documentary called Artist Response to 9.11, discussing the valuable role artists play in our society.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon in 1982 and has continuing education in art and film from UCLA and the Pacific NW College of Art. She also did studies at Pepperdine Universities MBA program.

Host: Jerry Gibson, Professor of ECE