When Art and Tech Make a Perfect Marriage

If these five Brooklyn startups get their way, you'll be looking differently at museums, music, TV and books


It’s a little challenging to pitch a tech-based idea without visuals, but the founders did an admirable job interpreting their visions for the judge and audience. While the judges seemed to find all of the companies intriguing, they were especially interested in unique and scalable ideas. The judges: De Angela Duff, co-director and an industry associate professor of integrated digital media at NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Jon Vanhala, managing director of Crossfade Partners; Joni Saylor, design principal at IBM; Catherine Levene, co-Founder at Cat Perkins; and J.J. Casper, founder of Blue Seed Collective.

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