Mountain Collective Podcast

Julien Simshauser is a London-based Digital Artist, Designer, Creative Director. Julien’s work combines influences in Graphic Design, Digital Art, Fashion and Cinematic Storytelling. He’s passionate to blend these genres to create fresh and exciting artful results. In 2015, he co-founded Builders Club. Builders Club is an award-winning Creative Production Company, creating forward-thinking moving imagefor brands, entertainment and culture.

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 we are, how we see the future, and how we want to experience it. Having grown up with five brothers in a wildly creative household, Niek maintains a reverence for youthful and unhindered experimentation. His hands-on approach is informed by childhood memories, archetypes, and a ‘need-for-speed’ attitude which aims to keep ideas flexible, adaptive, and unconstrained.

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 ability to tell a story with visuals that can be felt before they are understood. You can take it in at first glance, but generally don’t bargain for what happens once you’ve opened the door. What you see is what you get. There’s just a whole lot stacked beneath that. Working in multimedia: Virtual Reality, 360 Video, Augmented Reality, Performance and Video

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 technology, working alongside academic partners to build and deploy ethical and sustainable AI solutions for urban environments.

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 communication and better sales! Whether you want to configure a simple pen or a complex building, with Expivi’s Innovative 3D technology, you are able to visualize, customize and quote any product with all possible options and without limitations inside any browser, even in VR / AR. Expivi’s simple and fast workflow makes it possible to import and configure products, made in any modeling software such as Autocad, 3D Max, etc. in matter of minutes. Expivi opens new and exciting ways for you to present your products anywhere, on any device.

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 memorable associations and leveraging them in a distinctive and meaningful manner. To fathom the consumers you need to connect with, we dive deep into cultures, seeking out early signs of shifting consumer expectations, unlocking the motives behind these changes. We map out these changes, set out a course and challenge your brand to get close to the moments that matter for your consumers.

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. It is a perfect combination of superior service quality, 20+ years of experience.

Today REBLIKA has clients all around the world from fashion, film, and tech companies.

His work for Terre des Hommes' Sweetie campaign has been rewarded with twelve golden lions and the Grand Prix for Good at the Cannes Lions International Festival for Creativity, the equivalent of the Oscars for the communication industry.

In his spare time, Mao creates hyper-realistic portraits of existing and non-existent people. This exhibition is the first part of a series of portraits in which he explores the boundaries of realism and beauty.

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.