HEAD OF INSIGHT AT TCO LONDON

Helen has worked in the world of youth culture trends for two decades leading multi-disciplinary, global insight and brand strategy teams for Flamingo and WGSN in New York and London. She was previously Director of Trends at MTV and also co-founded disruptive insight and strategy collective The Akin. Helen also conceptualised the Global Trend Forecasting Curriculum for Parsons School of Design, in New York, and was recently named one of The Drum’s 50 best female speakers in the UK.

VIDEO DIRECTOR

Most well known for his music video work, David Wilson’s output has spanned various mediums including commercials and installations, for whom David often crosses and combines disciplines between animation and live action. He has worked with Arctic Monkeys, Metronomy, Royal Blood and Tame Impala, receiving copious accolades including being crowned Best Director at the UK Music Video Awards and a Grammy nomination in 2015 for his video for Arcade Fire, 'We Exist’. We previously featured David on Director ID, We previously featured David on Director ID, in a Vimeo Staff Picked video.

ARTIST

Mariana Vilanova is a fine artist, previously part of the collective berru, who won the 2019 Sonae Media Art Prize. The idea of the machine as an extension of the human body, and medium of creation and destruction, represent the body of her artistic practice, while she explores notions of time, space, perception, entropy and empathy and how these are explored through different mechanisms. Her work has been recently exhibited at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Planetário do Porto, dose magazine, Tetris, oMuseu – FBAUP, Lugar do Desenho – Fundação Júlio Resende, and Galeria Solar – Vila do Conde.

MUSICIAN & PRODUCER

Jacco Gardner is a baroque pop multi-instrumentalist and producer, who creates unique music by combining the sounds of harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects. Since launching his 2012 debut album Cabinet of Curiosities, his sound has evolved, as Jacco began to experiment with synthesizers and eventually came up with a hybrid sound that meshed his love of baroque pop with ambient synthesizer music. His third album, Somnium released in 2018, reflected this new sound. We previously interviewed Jacco at Le Guess Who? for Represent the Unrepresented.

PUBLISHER & CURATOR — EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WALLET MAG

Elise By Olsen is an editor, publisher and curator. With an expansive list of art- and fashion projects. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Wallet, a new publication dedicated to critical dialogue within the fashion industry. Prior to founding Wallet, Elise was internationally recognized as “the world’s youngest editor-in-chief” at age 13 in international press. Her first publication, Recens Paper was a renowned youth culture magazine. We previously interviewed Elise in a 180 Meets episode recorded at 180 Creative Camp 2018.