A show about the past, present & future of technology and media
We speak to people across the world who have taken on big projects and have diverse specialties
and we make connections between creations from the Renaissance era (roughly the 1300s-1600s) to current innovations
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About the host
Michael Fiorentino is a Creative Technologist and startup founder who has a background in programmatic advertising, interactive video, and experiential/guerrilla marketing production. He is originally from NYC but currently splits his time between Lisbon, Portugal and Manhattan. Fiorentino is deeply invested in his current project, Vixtape, a social TV platform that allows users to create and share their own streaming TV channels and be surrounded by moods in an underlying decentralized and progressive data exchange.
Over the past few years, Fiorentino has engaged in many discussions with mentors and colleagues that explored new ideas. However, he has always been frustrated by the limitations of presenting big ideas to financiers within the confines of a 30-second elevator pitch. To address this issue and to share some of these lively and curious conversations, he created the "Media Renaissance" series, which discusses big ideas of the past and future.
The idea for "Media Renaissance" stems from the comparison of innovations that took some of humanity's civilizations out of the dark ages and allowed for new forms of creative expression, commerce, and communication to emerge. Fiorentino looks at any civilization that had a similar pattern of evolution regardless of geographic position and time period, aiming to explore how cross-pollination of these innovations can lead to a new societal paradigm. If you have ideas for the show or would like to learn more, please contact us on this site or post on one of the show's social media channels.
(site note: I wrote a bio and asked ChatGPT to write it better and it did. You can assume that transcripts, graphics and other inputs are often aided by AI and similar tools).