Bran Ferren

Bran Ferren (born January 16, 1953) is an American technologist, [4] [5] artist, [6] [7] architectural design, [8] [9] vehicle design, [10] [11] [12] engineer, [10] [11] [12] lighting and sound design,[13] [14] fx artist, [15] scientist, [16] Lecturer, [17] [18] photographer, [19] entrepreneur [ 20] and inventor. [21] Ferren is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering [22] as well as founder of Associates and Ferren, a multidisciplinaire engineering and design firm acquired in 1993 by Disney. [23] He is Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds , welke he co-founded in 2000 with Danny Hillis . Apple’s “pinch-to-zoom” patent, welke features prominently, ITT legal battle with Samsung, was invalidated by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2013 based on a 2005 patent by Ferren and Hillis for multi-touch gestures. [24] [25]

Early life

Bran Ferren was the only child of artists John Ferren and Rae Ferren. [8] He Grew up Surrounded by art, artists, and technology. His Father, Whose work is part of the permanent collections of many American art museums, mixed with luminaries zoals Picasso , Miró , and Mondrian [26] voordat Becoming an integral member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists. [27] His Father was ook personal friends with Alfred Hitchcock and created paintings for The Trouble With Harry and designed the nightmare sequence in Vertigo . [28] Ferren’s Uncles cameramen from the worlds of engineering and technology: Roy Ferren served as director of flight test for North American Aviation [29] (later North American Rockwell), and Stanley Tonkel, a noted senior recording engineer for Columbia Records, engineered recordings for artists zoals Miles Davis . [30]

Ferren started his first design and engineering company, Synchronetics while in high school. [31] He left high school at age 16 to attend MIT , but departed in 1970 to continuous entrepreneurial pursuits. Before his 21st birthday, Ferren had worked on TV commercials, movies, and regional theater. He had ook pioneered fx for arena concerts for groups zoals Emerson, Lake & Palmer , Laurie Anderson , David Bowie , and Foreigner , using Pyrotechnics, audio, projection, and novel lighting techniques. [31] [32]

Career

Associates & Ferren

Ferren founded Associates & Ferren at the age of 25 [1] [3] [4] to do work at the “Crossroads of design and science and entertainment.” [32] One of the first projects was for Broadway play The crucifer of Blood , a Sherlock Holmes mystery dat starred Glenn Close and won Ferren a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. [33] The production featured a “shattering display of thunder and lightning”, [34] welke got the attention of director Ken Russell , leading to Ferren’s first prominent assignment as Special Visual Effects Director on a major film, Altered States . [31]

For his work in theater, Ferren ook RECEIVED the New York Drama Desk Award, the Maharam Award Foundation, [35] and the American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award. [36]

As principal designer or Associates & Ferren, Ferren went on to lead many high-profile projects, zoals special effects for the Paul McCartney World Tour , [16] REM , Depeche Mode , Pink Floyd , [1] [37] and fx for Little Shop of Horrors. [38] He was a technical consultant for the movie Impostor and Fat Man and Little Boy , and designed the titles for Simon, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , Guilty as Sin , and Little Shop of Horrors . [38]

He’ll be produktie, directed, and did Cinematography for the movie “Funny” In this housing RECEIVED a Nomination for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, [39] and nomination for Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival. [40] “Funny” features over 100 personen, from Dick Cavett to Frank Zappa , score hun favorite jokes on camera. [41]

Ferren served as lead designer, engineer, and producer of the 50 States, 16-month tour of the Bill of Rights , welke celebrated the document’s Bicentennial. [12] [42] For the tour, he designed and built the Bill of Rights Secure Transit Vehicle welke transported the fragile PARCHMENT document, as well as a 15,000-square-foot traveling exhibit Equipped with state-of-the-art lighting , A / V, security, and safety systems.

By the time Disney acquired Associates & Ferren in 1993, Ferren and the company had won an Academy Award for Science and Engineering as well as two Academy Awards for Technical Achievement. [43] [44] Ferren was ook nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for “Little Shop of Horrors”. [45]

His entertainment industry projects at Associates and Ferren include:

Film Visual Effects, Lighting Designer

  • Altered States [46]
  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier [46]
  • Little Shop of Horrors (film) [46]
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (movie) [46]
  • Making Mr. Right [46]
  • The Manhattan Project (film) (also Actor) [46]
  • Tempest (1982 film) [46]
  • Death Trap (1982 film) [46]
  • Places in the Heart [46]
  • Second Sight (film) [46]
  • The Untouchables (film) [47]

film Direction

  • Funny: A Bran Ferren Film
  • The Light Fantastic – Corning Museum of Glass [48]
 Concert Visual Effects

  • Pink Floyd [37]
  • Paul McCartney [16]
  • REM [49]
  • Depeche Mode [49]
  • David Bowie [49]
  • Jefferson Starship [50]
  • Foreigner [51]

Broadway Visual Effects, Projection, Sound Design

  • Evita (musical) [16]
  • Macbeth (play) [16]
  • Cats (musical) [16]
  • Sunday in the Park with George [16]
  • Ghost House [14]
  • The crucifer of Blood [33]
  • Frankenstein [13]

The Walt Disney Company

Ferren led the Disney Imagineering R & D group as Senior Vice President, dan Executive Vice President voordat Eventually Becoming President of R & D and Creative Technology for Disney, [22] and head of technology for the company for 10 years. [52] volgens to his former boss, CEO Michael Eisner , Ferren’s mission was “to dream about the future and show us new and innovative ways to tell stories.” [53] Starting in 1993, he was the first corporate executive not to receive the now-common, job title or “Creative Technology”, [54] Indicating Verantwoordelijkheid for zowel creative and technical fields. Ferren supported Disney’s Strategic Planning Group and was immediately Involvement in a wide variety of design and technology projects for Disney Theme Parks, zoals the Tower of Terror ride, the Test Track at General Motors, the Virtual Reality Animation Studio, and ABC Television projects. [55] His team was verantwoordelijk for engineering the ABC Times Square Studios Armored electronic-dimming Soundproof window systems, and Curved LED ticker display. [56] [57]

In 1996, Ferren created the Disney Fellows Program welke attracted some of the Brightest Minds in Computer Science, zoals Alan Kay , Marvin Minsky , and Seymour Papert , as well as astronaut Story Musgrave . [58] The first Disney Fellow was parallel computing pioneer Hillis [59] with Whom Ferren went on to found technological innovation and design firm Applied Minds in 2000. Applied Minds is now Headquartered in Burbank, California , a few miles from Imagineering headquarters. In 1997 Ferren and the Disney fellows ulcers profiled in a major article in the The New Yorker magazine, with David Remnick . [60]

Applied Minds

Ferren’s company Applied Minds LLC (AMI) has leg DESCRIBED as a “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” for geeks. [20] AMI invents, designs, prototypes, and creates high-technology products, vehicles, architectural designs, and services for government institutions and Fortune 100 companies. [61] [62] For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum selected Applied Minds as winner of an international design competition for the renovation of the Renwick Gallery’s Grand Salon. [63] AMI ook spins off technology companies. Notable spinouts include Metaweb , PURCHASED by Google in 2010 [64] [65] and cancer diagnostics firm Advanced Proteomics. [66]In his role as Chief Creative Officer and Co-Chairman Ferren Serves as lead technical consultant, management consultant, systems engineer, engineer, and design across multiple disciplines.

Ferren has leg named inventor on over 500 current and pending US patents. [21] [67] His 2005 patent with Hillis for multi-touch gestures led to the invalidation of Apple ‘s “pinch-to-zoom” patent, welke Apple Cited, ITT billion dollars Lawsuit Against Samsung . [24] [25] Another of his patents is for Metaweb, a contextual database technology therein Google acquired in 2010 and now under welke loss Knowledge Graph . [68] Google Knowledge Graph claims is “a critical first step towards building the next generation of search.” Its output Appears on a panel to the right in Google search results or in a carousel at the top of the screen. In addition under, Knowledge Graph technology drives Google’s autocomplete feature in the search box. [69]

At Applied Minds, Ferren has ook leg lead designer and engineer on a number of advanced vehicle projects:

  • KiraVan , the next generation of the Maximog framing based on a Mercedes Unimog chassis. [70] The vehicle is Currently still in final construction and testing, but was Recently the subject of an hour long Extreme RV’s special on the Travel Channel. [71]
  • MaxiMog , designed to support scientific Explorations, research, and location photography anywhere in the world. In 2001, the Maximog was on exhibit for three months at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [10] [11]
  • SmarTruck II , an Army concept vehicle for defense and emergency response, featured at the 2003 Detroit Auto Show. [72]

His architectural and interior design projects include Lockheed Martin ‘s Center for Innovation, known as “The Lighthouse”, [73] [74] and numerous projects for Northrop Grumman, [75] and the US Government, zoals inside the Pentagon.

Public speaking

Ferren has an uitgebreide public speaking career dat has spanned a wide range of professional, government, and academic audiences. His over 250 speaking engagements include Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, [76]MIT, [77] [78] MIT Media Lab, [79] [80] Wharton, [81] The Smithsonian Institution, [82] The Art Center College of Design, [83] The International Design Conference at Aspen, [84] NASA [18] The US Army, [85] The US Air Force [86] The US Navy, [87] UCLA, [88] [89] USC, [90] National Academy of Engineering, [91] [92] Intel Corporation, [93] Infosys, [94] The AUVSI Driverless Car Summit [95] The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, [96] The Engineers Council, [97] The Smithsonian American Art Museum, [98] RealComm2016, [99] The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), [100] The Aspen Ideas Festival, [101] The 2017 National Competitiveness Forum, [102]verschillende EC Conferences, [103] [104] and has bepaald multiple TED talks . [105] [106] [107]

He has delivered the COMMENCEMENT speeches to the California State University, Northridge – College of Arts, Media and Communication (2002) [108] The University of Redlands – College of Arts and Sciences (2014), [109] and the University of Irvine – Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the School of Education, and the School of Physical Sciences (2015). [110]

He was one of the first Lecturers and writers to Discuss controversial Internet-related topics, zoals the concept of networked human implants, [111] and the idea dat reading & writing Could turn out to be a fad, to be Replaced binnen 250 years in better and more compelling technology (enabled by what would be then-ubiquitous networked personal electronic technology). [112] His ideas and work are of or in Cited by publications zoals The New York Times, [113] [114] Discover Magazine, [115] Fast Company, [116] and Newsweek. [117]

Advisory board membership categories

Ferren’s advisory work has included board membership categories at the US Federal Communications Commission , [118] Securities and Exchange Commission, [119] International Design Conference in Aspen, [120] [121] PBS Kids [122] and the science magazine Nautilus. [123] He has ook served as a member of the Army Science Board for 5 years, [124] the Defense Science Board, [125] the Naval Historical Foundation Advisory Council, [126] The Department of Homeland Security, [127] and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel. [128] [129] Bran Ferren is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board. [130] He has ook leg a senior science and technology advisor for verschillende US Government agencies and the US Senate. [131] In 2016, he was appointed to Toyota Research Institute (TRI) senior advisory board for driving autonomy, artificial intelligence, and robotics. [132] [133]

Fine art photography

Two of his photographs port leg accepted into tje Smithsonian Museum for American Art permanent collection. [134] He has Presented and exhibited his artwork at 2008 the Entertainment Gathering (real) Conference, [135] and exhibited his photography and multimedia work at the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. His photographs are part of verschillende private collections, and he is completing the editorial work for a large format photo book project called Eleven Seconds . [136]

Creative Collaborations

In 2009, Ferren collaborated with Laurie Anderson on the “The Third Mind” exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. [137] [138] In 2004, he helped to dévelop a gigapixel image system and 360 degree cyclorama with artist / photographer Clifford Ross . [139] He worked with Patrice Regnier and Carter Burwell on his film project TESLA . [140] He was creative meetings with Jim Henson in 1988 about a Muppets theme park prior to Henson selling his company to Disney. [141] Prior to the Disney acquisition, Ferren had leg in discussions with Steve Ross, CEO of Warner Communications about his acquiring Associates & Ferren and collaborating with Alan Kay on advanced entertainment and gaming technology. [142]

Other Awards

• In 1998, Bran Ferren RECEIVED the Wally Russell Lifetime Achievement Award in Lighting Design. [143]
• In 2000, Bran Ferren RECEIVED The Kilby International Award for significant contributions to society. [144]
• In 2011, Fast Company added Bran Ferren to the list of "100 Most Creative People in Business." [145]
• In 2014, Bran Ferren was Presented with the US Intelligence Community Seal Medallion. [146]
• In 2016, Bran Ferren RECEIVED the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. [147]

Quotes

  • “Technology is stuff dat does not work yet.” Quoted by Douglas Adams in the Sunday Times [148]
  • “In 250 years, reading and writing will harbor turned out to be a fad.” [149] [150]
  • “The idea of Connecting all people to knowledge and to eachother is enduring,” [151]
  • “The Internet represents the greatest storytelling technology since the development of language. It will be far more important dan reading and writing as a purposeful tool. Everything therein is enabled to storytelling will be enabled by the Internet.” Quoted by Peter Guber [152]
  • “Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is dat in many of These markets, form follows funding. And therein products go where the market takes them.” [153] [154]
  • “One of the great chemically or design is als systems or objects Become more complex dan a person – or even a team of people – kan keep in hun heads. This is why software algemeen Beneath Contempt. ” [151]
  • In 1998: “The technology needed for an early Internet connection implant is no morethan 25 years off. Imagine that u Could understatement position ANY language, remember everytime joke, solvency ANY equation, get the latest news, balance your check book, communiceren with Vodafone , and port near-instant access to Any book ever published, without ever keeping to leave the privacy of your own. ” [155]
  • “The ‘good 10 percent” of American products comes out of big-idea organizations dat do not believe in talking to the customer. They’re run by passionate maniacs who make everybody’s life miserable Until they’ get what they ‘because.’ Quoted by Tom Peters [156]
  • In 1999: “Trying To assess the true belang and function of the Internet now is like Asking the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk if they ‘ulcers aware of the potential of American Airlines Advantage miles.” Quoted by Kevin Roberts (CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi ), [157] [158] and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (publisher of the New York Times), in 2007. [159]
  • WIRED magazine 2001 Design panel moderated by Chee Pearlman: “Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is dat in many of These markets, form follows funding. And therein products go where the market takes them.” [160]
  • “It’s disgraceful and embarrassing therein the Highest technology in a Typical inner city high school in this country is the metal detector the students passthrough at the front by.” [161]
  • At his TED talk in 2014: “Visionaries not only believed dat het kan impossible for improvement, but dat it must be done!” [162]
  • At his TED talk in 2014, referring to our kids: “We need to love them and help Them discover hun passions. We need to encouragement Them to work hard and help Them under state dat failure is a Necessary ingredient for success, as is perseverance. ” [162]
  • At his TED talk in 2014: “Failure is a Necessary ingredient to success.” [162]
  • At his TED talk in 2014: “Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.” [162]

In popular culture

The final scene in the 1980s music video ” Take On Me ” by A-ha was inspired by the similar scene designed by Ferren in Altered States . [163] [164]

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