Michela Magas
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Michela Magas is an entrepreneur and innovation specialist, of Croatian/British nationality,[1] who was the 2017 European Woman Innovator of the Year.[1][2]
She is the daughter of the architects Olga and Boris Magaš,[3][4] and was raised in Rijeka, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), where she was educated at Italian elementary and secondary schools, before graduating in design from the Royal College of Art in London.[4] From 1995 until the end of 2000 she worked at the Financial Times, as a designer.[2]
She is the co-founder, with Peter Russell-Clarke (who went on to work on the iPhone with Jonathan Ive[4]) of the London-based design innovation lab Stromatolite,[5] whose clients include Nike, Nokia and Apple.[4]
She is the founder of Music Tech Fest,[6][7] and chairs the Industry Commons Foundation.[8]
In December 2019 she was recognised as an "Outstanding Peer Reviewer" by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.[9]
Since about 2015,[4] she has lived in Umeå, Sweden, and works nomadically.[2]
Publications
- 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
References
- ^ a b "EU Prize for Women Innovators: 2017 Contest". European Commission. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017.
- ^ a b c Arnold, Harriet (2 May 2017). "Michela Magas: my nomadic working life". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Nobilo, Igor. "British-Croatian Michela Magaš European Innovator of the Year". www.total-croatia-news.com. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ "EU Prize for Women Innovators: Meet the 2017 finalists!". European Commission. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017.
- ^ "Michela Magas – Founder, Music Tech Fest; Design Innovation & Music Tech Specialist". MusicTank. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Peschl, Florian. "Bunte Vielfalt". Forbes Austria (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "Foundation". Industry Commons. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "Recognition of Outstanding Peer Reviewers". Leonardo/ISAST. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Interview as finalist for the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017 on YouTube
- BBC click episode including feature on Magas' EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017