Working in digital media -
Our guest speaker is Emma Wade, she is an free-lance artist.
Emma graduated from the Institute of Art and Design in 2002. the first job she got she worked at for two years. She was a Creative Director in the company and more comfortable with dealing with clients. The company went belly up and her next job was at High Street Printer where there was a fast pace and where she improved her speed with working with computers but she left.
In 2006 she got a job for a marketing company which was challenging cause she had to put her design skills to the challenge. she learned a very valuable lesson which she didn’t college. Companies copy off other companies adverts and just change things around so not everything is new.
shortly after that that she decided to go back to college and get a masters in art. she applied for a masters in National College of Art and Design which was a 2 year masters.
She felt kinda out of place as she was a designer and almost everybody else were an artist. Artist only think creatively and don’t think about logical things and designers think logically (which is understandable). For one of her projects she had to do , her next project she decided to mix technology with her artistic side. Which she thought came together really good by making CheerUp. its pressure pad that is on the ground with speakers on either side of it. When you step on the pad, the electrical circuits connect together and a crowd of people start cheering for ya. The more enthusiastically you stand on the pad, the louder the cheer gets 
its pretty useless but also pretty awesome
For her final year project she made REXATREC which is a pretty cool idea. She came up with the idea to put a camera on her dog and thought it would be cool if people could see what the dog sees and does. she put a camera on his collar and followed him for a few months& edited the footage
People had to get on there hands and knees like a dog to see what a dog sees which is cool.
She got her masters and went to New York for a 3 month internship. She said it was the best time she had because she got to learn so much.Her next job was at Red Space Studios in Dublin. Where she made some good friend. Red Space has everything the don’t focus on just one thing they have a recording studio for musicians, studio,computers , sound boots etc loads of stuff
She did a gallery exhibitions and her which was a Free Hugs exhibition.
she made a jacket that feels like its given you hugs don’t know the technical side of it but I’m sure it took allot of effort to make it .
I’m not into the whole arty thing but this is pretty cool it does give ya an insight into the whole thing.
