Aza Raskin cant remember the name of one of the artists he wanted to talk about, so hes scrolling through his Twitter feed to find the name. Hes been in the windowless conference room tucked in the back of the Verge office for, at that point, about eight hours. The project has a simple enough premise: pair seven artists and seven technologists into teams of two, give them a space in New York (the Verge teamed up with Rhizome to host Raskin and Altmann), and let them present whatever they come up with. Its an event well-known in circles that track experimental work at the intersection of art and technology, and even if the conference itself doesnt reach a mass audience, many of its participants are celebrities in their fields;
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