Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

Track III: Herscher Hall, Guerin A

The Wildlife Conservation Media Fund Festival

"Killing Games," Project Coyote, hosted by Camilla Fox, Executive Director

"Walking Thunder" by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

WCS's homage to its global work in wildlife conservation. Natalie Cash, Producer

WildAid, Global Opinion Leader in Wildlife Conservation, Peter Knights, Executive Director

Moderator - Marty Perlmutter, President, Multisensory Interactive Learning Institute (MILI)

 

Marty Perlmutter, President, Multisensory Interactive Learning Institute (MILI): Marty Perlmutter is currently working on the campaign to save Africa’s elephants, using social media and Virtual Reality to create programming and consciousness to reduce demand for ivory in China. Marty’s education nonprofit, Multisensory Interactive Learning, is developing mobile math games. The first in the series, “Tangram Jam,” is available for Apple and Android devices. He has worked in interactive media for over four decades. He invented an immersive display helmet in 1970 and later incorporated 3D TV in a series of science museum exhibits. He created interactive products for IBM, AT&T, HP, Pioneer, Mindscape, AOL, Looksmart and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His interactive and education work has won awards in the US, Japan and Europe. Perlmutter built long-lasting interactive exhibits at the Boston Museum of Science, Lawrence Hall of Science and New York Hall of Science. He has consulted to HBO, Sony, Xerox, AT&T, MIT, Harvard, NYU, UC, Ericsson, BT and Mass General Hospital. He has lectured at Harvard and MIT and taught at Tufts, NYU, San Francisco State and Cogswell College. His writings on new media have been widely published.