“These next three days will be an end of an era, the end of a project that has taken up 1/4 of my life and given me some of my greatest joys.”
– Data artist and
Eyeo Festival co-curator
Jer Thorp, on Dave Schroeder’s announcement that this year’s edition will be the last. Minneapolis’ annual creative technology summit first emerged on the scene in 2012 and, thanks to immaculate speaker selection, became one of the finest gatherings for digital creative practice in North America. As Thorp put it: “There was an awful lot of magic.”