Figures of Speech USA
ICA crosses the Atlantic with SpinVox.
- Debut of new format Figures of Speech and launch of SpinVox service
- Local heroes invited to speak by ICA
- ICA and SpinVox entertain key guests in New York and San Francisco
- SpinVox message successfully delivered to trend-setting local audience and key press
October 2007 was a special month for the ICA's international profile as we debuted our new presentation format Figures of Speech at intimate dinners in New York City and San Francisco. In partnership with our sponsor SpinVox we welcomed a range of local heroes to the stage in each city to introduce and explain the one object they could not live without and why, in only five minutes.
NYC's speakers included musicians DJ Spooky and Melissa Auf der Maur, cabby turned New York Hack blogger Melissa Plaut, Cool-Hunting founder Josh Rubin, youth activist and Global Inheritance founder Eric Ritz, and the director of New York's Museum of Arts and Design, Holly Hotchner.
San Francisco's six were artist and gallerist Aaron Rose, media-art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson, SF Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker, NY magazine mogul Jack Rabid, surf entrepreneur Keir J Beadling and local Green party political hero and civil rights litigator Matt Gonzalez.
Figures of Speech will return to London on 26 March 2009 in the guise of our yearly fundraising gala. Tickets are available now.
