Jump to content

Michela Magas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Deborah Kastinger (talk | contribs) at 12:49, 12 January 2023 (→Media coverage). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Michela Magas
Alma mater
Employer
Parent(s)
Awards
Websitehttps://michelamagas.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Michela Magas is a designer, entrepreneur and innovation specialist, of Croatian-British nationality,[1] and is the first woman from the Creative Industries to receive the European Woman Innovator of the Year award by the European Commission.[1][2]

Family and education

She is the daughter of the architects Olga and Boris Magaš,[3][4] and was raised in Rijeka, Croatia, where she was educated at Italian elementary and secondary schools, before graduating in design from the Royal College of Art in London.[4]

Career

From 1995 until the end of 2000 she worked at the Financial Times, as a designer, becoming Art Editor.[5]

She is the co-founder, with Peter Russell-Clarke, of the London-based design innovation lab Stromatolite,[6] whose clients include Nike, Nokia and Apple.[4]

She is the founder of Music Tech Fest,[7][8] and chairs the Industry Commons Foundation.[9]

In December 2019 she was recognised as an "Outstanding Peer Reviewer" by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.[10]

In 2016 she was awarded Innovation Luminary for Creative Innovation by the European Commission.[11]

Since about 2015,[4] she has lived in Umeå, Sweden, and works nomadically.[5]

Publications

  • Magas, M., 2020. Green Paper: CCI Innovation to Lead Beyond the Pandemic, presented at Framing Creative Futures – The 10th European Creative Industries Summit (ECIS 2020). Link
  • Magas, M, and Dubber, A., 2020. Expanding EOSC: Engagement of the wider public and private sectors in EOSC, Study funded by the European Union’s Horizon Programme call H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-4, Grant Agreement number 831644, EOSCsecretariat.eu 2020. Link
  • Magas, M. in Taisch, M., Casidsid, M.L., May, G., Morin, T.R., Padelli, V., Pinzone, M., Wuest, T. (eds)., 2020. World Manufacturing Report 2020: Manufacturing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Link
  • Magas, M. and Koek, A., Lerhman-Madsen, O., Beetz, K., Curley, M., de Waele, W., Herlitschka, S., 2016. CAF Innovation Recommendations, H2020 Work Programme 2018–2020. DG Connect Advisory Forum, European Commission.
  • Magas, M., Fledderus, E. and Herlitschka, S., et al. 2016. CAF's recommendations for H2020's work program 2018–2020. DG Connect Advisory Forum, European Commission.
  • Magas, M. and Dubber, A. 2016. Final Public Report. #MusicBricks European Commission H2020 project report.
  • Magas, M., van der Klauw, K. et al., 2015. Report on Analysis and Recommendations for Innovation Ecosystems: The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI). Published by the European Commission in October 2015.
  • Magas, M., Lidy, T., and Schindler, A., 2015. MusicBricks: Connecting digital Creators to the Internet of Music Things. ERCIM NEWS, 101, pp. 39–40.
  • Magas, M., Dubber, A., Sterne, J., Baym, N., et al., 2014. Manifesto for Music Technologists. Published by Microsoft Research.
  • Magas, M., Serra, X., Benetos, E., Chudy, M., Dixon, S., Flexer, A., Paytuvi, O., 2013. Roadmap for music information research. EU FP7.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P., 2013. A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections. Journal of New Music Research, 42(2), pp. 151–160.
  • Magas, M., and Rea, C. 2012. Synaesthesia: Innovative music components for collaborating and creating music with objects in real space. Proceedings of the NEM Summit, Istanbul.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P., 2009. A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections. In Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces.
  • Magas, M., Stewart, R. and Fields, B., 2009, August. decibel 151. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery (p. 21). ACM.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P. 2009. Beyond the metadata, new intelligent audio content search for large music collections. Unlocking Audio 2, British Library, London, UK.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P., 2009. A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections. Proceedings of ECDL. Corfu, Greece.
  • Magas, M., Casey, M.A. and Rhodes, C., 2008, August. mHashup: fast visual music discovery via locality sensitive hashing. In SIGGRAPH New Tech Demos (p. 26).
  • Magas, M., Rhodes, C., Casey, M., d’Inverno, M., Knopke, I., and Slaney, M. 2008. Dark Media Navigation With the Audio

Media coverage

  • JN.pt covered Aveiro Tech week 2022[12]
  • TOUCHIT.sk covered Festival Art & Tech Days 2021 [13]
  • Fraunhofer on EIT Kultur & Kreativität - eine wegweisende Partnerschaft für ein erfolgreiches Europa[14]
  • OAGi’s Industrial Ontologies Foundry Releases Core Ontology Beta[15]
  • Royal College of Artinterview with Michela Magas[16]
  • ara.cat on Michela Magas[17]
  • Forbes on Michela Magas and MTF[18]
  • Market insider on Music Tech Fest Hosts MTF Labs Together With Infobip in Croatia[19]
  • Leonardo.info on Recognition of outstanding peer reviewers[20]
  • Dagens industri covers Michela Magas[21]
  • BBC The Next Web on How the first Music Tech Fest explored the future of sound[22]
  • bergenna.no covered Gründer-gatefest på OPPNÅ[23]
  • Financial Times Michela Magas' nomadic working life[24]
  • Yle Finland on Music Tech Fest -ryhmälle musiikki on sosiaalista liimaa: "Me emme ennusta tulevaisuutta, vaan luomme sitä"[25]
  • Poslovni.hr on Michela Magaš[26]
  • Vecernhi list on Živjela sam u Caritasu, jela tost. Slomila sam se kad je tata imao infarkt, no tad su me profesori ‘prošvercali’ pod studenta iz EU [27]
  • Dnevni avaz on Svjetski inovatori i studenti zajedničkim snagama pokreću inovativnu BiH[28]
  • VIDI on Michela Magaš[29]
  • Radio MOF: Interview with Michela Magas[30]
  • 24SATA on Michela Magaš[31]
  • BBC on Michela Magaš[32]
  • BBC European Prize for Women Innovators[33]

References

  1. ^ a b "EU Prize for Women Innovators : 2017 Contest". European Commission. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017.
  2. ^ Arnold, Harriet (2 May 2017). "Michela Magas: my nomadic working life". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. ^ Nobilo, Igor. "British-Croatian Michela Magaš European Innovator of the Year". www.total-croatia-news.com. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Pleše, Mladen (12 March 2017). "Michela Magaš europska je inovatorica godine, a ovo je njezin prvi životni intervju za naše medije". Telegram.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b Arnold, Harriet (2 May 2017). "Michela Magas: my nomadic working life". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. ^ "EU Prize for Women Innovators: Meet the 2017 finalists!". European Commission. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Michela Magas – Founder, Music Tech Fest; Design Innovation & Music Tech Specialist". MusicTank. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  8. ^ Peschl, Florian. "Bunte Vielfalt". Forbes Austria (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Foundation". Industry Commons. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Recognition of Outstanding Peer Reviewers". Leonardo/ISAST. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  11. ^ Anonymous (27 May 2016). "The Innovation Luminary Awards 2016". Shaping Europe’s digital future - European Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Como é que a tecnologia pode melhorar a nossa vida? Descubra nas Tech Sessions". jn.pt.
  13. ^ {{cite web|url=https://touchit.sk/kyborg-neil-harbisson-inovatorka-michela-magas-a-umelec-daan-roosegaarde-su-prvymi-menami-festivalu-art-tech-days/369874%7Ctitle=Kyborg Neil Harbisson, inovátorka Michela Magas a umelec Daan Roosegaarde sú prvými menami festivalu Art & Tech Days|date=27 September 2021|work=TouchIT}
  14. ^ "EIT Kultur & Kreativität - eine wegweisende Partnerschaft für ein erfolgreiches Europa". ISC Fraunhofer. 23 June 2022.
  15. ^ "OAGi's Industrial Ontologies Foundry Releases Core Ontology Beta". oagi.org.
  16. ^ Lisa Pierre (14 February 2022). "Michela Magas". rca.ac.uk.
  17. ^ "Michela Magas: "Reunir tota mena de ments brillants en un espai d'entesa mutua genera un entorn realment enriquidor". ara.cat.
  18. ^ "Bunte Vielfalt". forbes.at. 17 June 2019.
  19. ^ "Music Tech Fest Hosts MTF Labs Together With Infobip in Croatia". markets.businessinsider.com. 8 May 2019.
  20. ^ Erica Hruby (4 December 2019). "Recognition of outstanding peer reviewers". leonardo.info.
  21. ^ Annika Sandholm Hellner (15 December 2018). "Nytänkaren vill göra industrins teknik tillgänglig för hackare". di.se.
  22. ^ "Music Tech Fest in Stockholm". bbc.co.uk.
  23. ^ "Gründer-gatefest på OPPNÅ". bergenna.no. 24 May 2012.
  24. ^ "Michela Magas: my nomadic working life". Financial times. 2 May 2017.
  25. ^ Jussi Mankkinen (28 November 2017). "Music Tech Fest -ryhmälle musiikki on sosiaalista liimaa: "Me emme ennusta tulevaisuutta, vaan luomme sitä"". yle.fi.
  26. ^ Bernard Ivezić (13 November 2017). "Michela Magaš stvara pandan Linuxa za glazbenu industriju". poslovni.hr.
  27. ^ Sandra Veljković (14 March 2017). "Živjela sam u Caritasu, jela tost. Slomila sam se kad je tata imao infarkt, no tad su me profesori 'prošvercali' pod studenta iz EU". vecernji.hr. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/zivjela-sam-u-caritasu-jela-tost-slomila-sam-se-kad-je-tata-imao-infarkt-no-tad-su-me-profesori-prosvercali-pod-studenta-iz-eu-1155987" ignored (help)
  28. ^ E.HALIMIĆ (6 December 2017). "Svjetski inovatori i studenti zajedničkim snagama pokreću inovativnu BiH". vecernji.hr. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "https://avaz.ba/vijesti/bih/328966/svjetski-inovatori-i-studenti-zajednickim-snagama-pokrecu-inovativnu-bih" ignored (help)
  29. ^ Lucija Pilić (25 August 2017). "Michela Magaš: Velikim ambicijama do inovatorice godine". vidi.hr. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  30. ^ "Interview with Michela Magas". Radio MOF.
  31. ^ Željko Ivanković (8 May 2017). "Inovatorica godine: Naša djeca se moraju baviti s umjetnošću". 24sata. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  32. ^ "Quién es Michela Magas,"la mujer más innovadora de Europa" y cómo está revolucionando la tecnología musical". bbc.com. 7 April 2017.
  33. ^ "Quién es Michela Magas,"la mujer más innovadora de Europa" y cómo está revolucionando la tecnología musical". bb.com. 7 April 2017.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Michela_Magas&oldid=1133149066"