Introducing The Speakers For TEDxBuffalo 2014

"Buffalo, color us impressed. We had some tough decisions to make when selecting this year’s speaker lineup from all of the amazing pitch videos submitted, and the TEDxBuffalo team is thrilled to introduce you to the 13 speakers who will be sharing their “Ideas Worth Spreading” at TEDxBuffalo 2014.

Before we do that, though, we’d like to take a second to remind you that there’s still time to apply to attend this year’s event, which will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 14

at the Montante Cultural Center at Canisius College.

Attendee applications close this Sunday, Aug. 17! (If you can’t spend the full day with us, we’ll of course be streaming the event right here at TEDxBuffalo.com, and we’ll be announcing remote viewing site information soon.)"

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.tedxbuffalo.com/tedxbuffalo-2014-speakers/

Among the Speakers for TedX Buffalo:

About: Award-winning composer Sabrina Peña Young composes experimental works, which have been presented at the Beijing Conservatory, the International Computer Music Conference, Miramax’s Project Greenlight, the Athena Festival, the New York International Independent Film Festival, Art Basil Miami, Turkey’s Cinema for Peace, El Instituto Cubana de la Musica, Pulsefield International Exhibition of Sound Art and countless arts events. The Holland Animation Festival recently presented her “groundbreaking” machinima work Libertaria: The Virtual Opera. Young is currently curating the 60X60 Latin Mix for the NYC artist collective Vox Novus, which will showcase the electroacoustic music of Latin American artists, as well as develop music MOOCs through The Young Academy of Arts and Letters (YAAL).

Keith Harrington

About: Keith Harrington, a.k.a. Projex, is an installation artist, VJ, DJ and projectionist. Going beyond the digital screen, Harrington combines more than 10 years of audio-visual experience in music, projection and art. Using light mapping technology, he blurs the lines between audio and visual. Harrington is known for his poetic approach to storytelling through manipulating digital media, music and video projection. “Projex” has shared the stage with Bonobo and Diplo, among others, and, most recently, Flux Pavilion at the world-renowned Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

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