Sometimes you are right, Just early.
A part of my story that doesn’t get much attention is the intersection between ART & Technology, overwhelmed as it is by my time building the Internet (Razorfish, Schematic) and Video online (BBC, iPlayer, Schematic, Videoplaza, etc.) But a hardware project I was intimately involved in early in its inception was Samsung’s Frame TV.
While my tenure at Samsung was cut short, our vision for Frame included building an “Itunes for ART & VISUALS” taking the “in-home experience and Art curation & collection to the next level. I was honored to collaborate with Yves Behar and my fantastic team at Samsung, and every time I see the product in the store or on my walls ( I still have three of them on the walls of my home today) — it’s one of my favorite projects I’ve ever led.
At that time, Visual Art was the last unexplored area of digital media, except for the e-commerce and auction landscape and some fascinating early leaders like my friend Carter at ARTSY.
I remember hearing from Paul Allen about Bill Gate’s new house (yes, he was flexing for me) and the digital screens that displayed your favorite art when you wandered through it. I never saw this, but the idea was…
