Best known for her delightful and innovative work in food and technology, Emilie Baltz uses food as a medium and metaphor for designing experience.
Emilie’s Speech Topics:
With 20 years of work in design, hospitality, performance, technology and new media, Emilie Baltz’s fluency across diverse creative industries successfully embraces both analogue and digital experience. Her expertise lies in using the five senses to tell stories that deepen engagement through embodiment.
Workshops & Commissions: (Highly customized where her roles blend facilitation, design, participant curation and others):
Sensing Futures
We enter the world through our senses. When we alter our relationship to them, we discover new worlds.
This workshop designed for MUZSE, a culture and technology platform formed between Milk Studios and Intel, brings together style innovators, technologists and academics to investigate the next generation of possibilities in sensing technology. Designed around a custom card game, participants playfully collaborated to reimagine the role of objects in our lives and deliver the future of high-performing, aesthetically driven objects designed to navigate our hyper-connected world.
Intersect by LEXUS:
To inspire excitement for the opening of INTERSECT by LEXUS, a new immersive cultural space in New York City, I worked with the team at MILK Studios to design a VIP preview inspired by a magical, secret garden.
The multi-sensory experience greeted guests through an interactive dance floor designed by Future Wife on the ground level, then up a sweeping staircase and onto the second floor that was transformed into a living garden created with Aurora Botanica.
Alongside consulting on the original creative direction & strategy for the evening, I installed an interactive ice geode with collaborators Dave&Gabe that emitted sound and light when touched and designed custom shaved-ice desserts with Bonsai Kakigori.
Cotton Candy Universe:
Cotton Candy Universe is a cotton candy spinning performance at the intersection of food, design, performance and technology. It is the second iteration of Cotton Candy Theremin, which remixes the interface of making cotton candy by transforming it into a multi-sensory orchestration of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. By spinning a cotton candy cone over wisps of candy floss, guests trigger sounds and visuals that create an immersive environment inside a 70 ft. planetarium dome, revealing the interplay between human and digital technology.
Debuted at Panorama Music Festival during the summer of 2016 as part of The Lab @ Panorama.
Videos:
https://vimeo.com/229144600 Dream Machine Installation
Bio:
Emilie Baltz believes in Unicorns.
She hunts for what does not (yet) exist and is dedicated to creating new possibilities in the world.
As an award-winning artist, designer, author and public speaker her appearances include TEDx, DLD, PSFK Conference, Ignite Conference, Creative Mornings, TODAY Show, NBC, Wall Street Journal, D-CRIT and more.
Emilie is based in New York City and works out of the NEW LAB for emerging technologies. She is a founding members of NEW INC, the first museum led incubator hosted at the New Museum, and is also part of the founding faculty of the School of Visual Arts Products of Design MFA program, as well as the founder of the first Food Design Studio at Pratt Institute.
Baltz is the author of the award-winning “L.O.V.E FOODBOOK“, recipient of Best First Cookbook in the World at the Prix Gourmand held annually in the Louvre, Paris; as well as the nationally featured cookbook, “Junk Foodie: 51 Delicious Recipes for the Lowbrow Gourmand“.
She is a Sundance Story Lab New Frontiers Fellow and co-recipient of the 2018 IDFA DocLab Best Immersive Non-Fiction Award for EAT TECH KITCHEN, a playful performance that critiques human behavior through the mash-up of food, technology and absurdity.
From 1994-2000, she trained intensively in contemporary dance and classical voice, learning what it means to connect, listen and harmonize with others.
