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Professor Marie Redmond graduated from Trinity where she studied Mathematics and then worked in the computer industry for 12 years in the US for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). While working in the US, Marie taught at MIT in both the Writing Program and in The Media Lab. She returned to Ireland where she set up the Multimedia Research Group in the Department of Computer Science and this led to the founding of X Communications in 1994 as a campus company. Marie designed the MSc in Interactive Digital Media course in 1996 and this course is still running successfully with over 350 graduates working in the digital media and related sectors in Ireland and internationally. Marie sold X Communications in January 2013 and is now designing a new MPhil course in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship which will commence in September 2013. Marie consults to the European Commission on different areas of digital media and is also chair of The Rough Magic Theatre and the Darklight Festival. She is a Leonardo for The Science Gallery and has curated shows on robotic art called ArtBots in both The Ark and The Science Gallery. She has founded a series of events called First Up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrL_CKw-ehA&feature=youtu.be
What’s the best venue in Ireland in your opinion?
For a music event Vicar Street, for theatre the Project Arts Centre and if I was going to a lecture style event then it would be the Royal Irish Academy.
What to you make’s a great event?
I’m a big fan of live performance and I feel events are affected by the participation of the audience. It’s all about how well they feel engaged with the actual event and with the performance.
If money was no object who would you love to have as a keynote speaker?
I’m lucky that I got my ideal keynote speaker!
One of the people that I have actually worked with in the First Up series is Moya Doherty.
She is someone that I wanted to involve in my course and when I sat down and thought who is a really successful, really interesting creative entrepreneur in Ireland it took me 5 seconds to decide that it was Moya Doherty and I got in touch with her. I met her and she is one of the speakers in the series and has helped me to set up the course. I’m a huge admirer of hers.
