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Today’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences and much like Burning Man’s Multiverse, I invite you, dear listener to enjoy one or both of these diverging moments. The first podcast takes place in the traditional Life is a Festival format, the second is a conversation recorded from the new audio social network Clubhouse (currently in beta testing). My guest for both experiences is my friend Damian Madray, the founder of PRESENCE, which is part of the infrastructure behind Infinite Playa, one of Burning Man’s multiverses. In this iteration, Damian and I attend to our Clubhouse audience and seek to inspire real participation in the Multiverse as an acculturation tool to Burning Man’s values. We speak of co-creating rather than consuming experiences and how to be a vibe creator in this new world of visual Burning. Damian is passionate about scaling human connection. An alum of Singularity University, and long time congregator through his Glint Salons in San Francisco, Damian is the perfect person to speak of the power of Burning Man’s Multiverse as a portal to the broader metaverse that is unfolding in digital space everywhere at once. He founded PRESENCE to help creators to bring people into experiences that connect in meaningful ways. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Bold Italic, Huffington Post, Slate, WSJ, and the Financial Times. Through Burning Man’s Multiverse, we will witness human connection unfolding in the virtual through time and space, but it’s up to us to participate in this unfolding. As you step into any of the 8 official multiverse realms, we invite you, “Ask not what burn the multiverse can give to you, but how you can burn in the Multiverse.” LINKS Enter the Multiverse: https://kindling.burningman.org/multiverse/ PRESENCE: https://withpresence.com/ Damian Madray: https://medium.com/@themadray/about-damian-f3b1fda29dda TIMESTAMPS: :05 - Framing a digital experience to create the possibility for intimacy :11 - The acculturation of a pilgrimage :16 - Damian explores some of the different multiverses including Build-a-Burn (Youtopia), The Bridge Experience (Metaburn), and Infinite Playa :27 - Co-creating an experience rather than consuming an experience :34 - Don’t come to the multiverse to get a burn, come to give a burn :37 - Damian describes his platform PRESENCE :42 - The onboarding process for multiverse is decentralized :50 - See yourself as a vibe creator and an embodiment of the principles
Today’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences and much like Burning Man’s Multiverse, I invite you, dear listener to enjoy one or both of these diverging moments. The first podcast takes place in the traditional Life is a Festival format, the second is a conversation recorded from the new audio social network Clubhouse (currently in beta). My guest for both experiences is my friend Damian Madray, the founder of PRESENCE, which is part of the infrastructure behind Infinite Playa, one of Burning Man’s multiverses. In this iteration we we get to know Damian, from his parties and salons in San Francisco to his recent naturalization as a US citizen. We go deep on the distinction between multiverse and metaverse, we chat about type 1 and type 2 fun, and Damian provides a preview of what we can expect from Infinite Playa. Damian is passionate about scaling human connection. An alum of Singularity University, and long time congregator through his Glint Salons in San Francisco, Damian is the perfect person to speak of the power of Burning Man’s Multiverse as a portal to the broader metaverse that is unfolding in digital space everywhere at once. He founded PRESENCE to help creators to bring people into experiences that connect in meaningful ways. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Bold Italic, Huffington Post, Slate, WSJ, and the Financial Times. Through Burning Man’s Multiverse, we will witness human connection unfolding in the virtual through time and space, but it’s up to us to participate in this unfolding. As you step into any of the 8 official multiverse realms, we invite you, “Ask not what burn the multiverse can give to you, but how you can burn in the Multiverse.” LINKS Enter the Multiverse: https://kindling.burningman.org/multiverse/ PRESENCE: https://withpresence.com/ Damian Madray: https://medium.com/@themadray/about-damian-f3b1fda29dda TIMESTAMPS :15 - Damian’s background and recent naturalization as a US citizen :20 - Experience is how consciousness unfolds through space and time :22 - From throwing underground parties, to attending Singularity University, Damian’s background in experience design :29 - The multiverse and the metaverse :35 - Talking about Infinite Playa :42 - How do we navigate the difference realms of the Multiverse? :49 - Can people still participate as creators? :53 - The biggest challenges facing Burning Man’s Multiverse :59 - Type 1 and Type 2 Fun 1:06 - How will connecting with Burning Man’s multiverse impact the broader metaverse?
A prolific explorer and entrepreneur Damian Madray moved to Silicon Valley where he co-founded The Glint; a collective of creators with the aim to bring people together to connect in deeply authentic ways. This paved the way to his new project, a start-up titled, Presence. It is here that he is focusing on, what he calls an 'enquiry' into how Experiences can be scaled in a sustainable way. Damian Madray, born and raised in Guyana, where he developed a unique perspective on the effects of loneliness. We discuss his various projects, Art and its connection to Experience Design and why he founded the web series Experiential by Design. Introduction The College ofExtraordinaryy Experiences De Kas Kantine Sherlocked (and the Vault Escape Room) Highlights Find Damian on LinkedIn On Twitter Experience Design Web Cast - Experiential by Design The Glint Presence Damian on Medium Book: Reflections on the Self - by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (Editor) Music used in the Story Segment - A shout out to some of the forgotten Psychedelic Artist of the past (Music I found on an obscure corner of the web). Please connect with me, Werner on GoodReads Or Twitter (@weenerdawg) Or check out all the past episode at www.blocthinking.com OR if you’re keen to chat more.
We sit down with the founder of Presence, which aims to be a kind of Patreon for experiential artists, Damian Madray to talk about his own life as an experience designer and why he decided to built a platform for other makers. Damian is also the co-host of the upcoming EXP*DSN, aka Experiential By Design, a live web show that features conversations between pioneers in experience design. The show kicks off on August 2nd, and will feature director Lynsey Peisinger who produces participatory work with The Abramovic Method. It will also have some weirdo named No Ha Nel son. Oh, wait. That's me.
"And then, our consciousness can transcend, together." - Damian Madray sits down to talk human to me about human behavior, human experience, realities, diversity, growing up poor, art, technology, and consciousness. | Talk Human To Me is a podcast for entrepreneurs, that has nothing to do with entrepreneurship. Listen in as we talk with doers, makers, & creators about other thoughts that complete them as humans.
June kicks off with a great interview with Damian Madray. Damian Madray is senior product designer at Neo Interactive, and the founder of Hunie — a community for designers, founders, and developers for design feedback — and TheGlint, a series of salons that facilitate meaningful conversations. Our conversation mainly centered around his two creations, but Damian also talked a lot about passion and drive and how those two things motivate his work. One of Damian's big goals is learning how to design culture, so if you're in the Bay Area, there's a good chance you'll hear more about Damian in the future! Damian Madray on Twitter Hunie Hunie on Twitter TheGlint TheGlint on Instagram TheGlint on Twitter