Brian Karwosky- Executive Producer, IMC EXPO

Brian Karwosky is the co-founder and Executive Producer of the IMC EXPO (www.IMCexpo.net), and serves of the current vice president of Studio IMC (www.StudioIMC.com), of which he is also a co-founder. Karwosky, along with partners James Tunick and Tony Rizzaro, is presently overseeing the development and implementation of several immersive digital display concepts for a number of unnamed, high profile clients in the retail, fashion and food & beverage industries.

As an experienced event producer, Karwosky has worked with many esteemed clients, artists, entertainers, and performers. Among those include Hennessey, MTV, Vogue, Nike, WKTU, Anti-Gravity, Supermodel Victoria Silvestedt, Excite Nite, Situation Entertainment, Brooke Shields, Playboy's Miss March Tina Jordan, D.J. Skribble, D.J. Johnny Vicious, iio, Eyra Gail, Perpetual Dreamer, DJ Cleveland (formerly of The Sound Factory, NYC), the famous D.J./Producer team of Razor N' Guido, D.J. Denny Tsettos, Amber, Reina, Mindy K., Shannon, Cynthia, React, Divine, D.J. Jason Ojeda, MTV personality's Laura Lifshitz and Raymond, Z100's Paul "Cubby" Bryant, WKTU radio hosts Judy Torres and Goumba Johnny,   Whitney Houston producer and world renowned D.J. Hex Hector, The Chalasa Dance Company, The Waking Dream Puppet Company, and the Just Begun Breakers.

Karwosky is a graduate student in The Department of Economics at Fordham University, Bronx NY specializing in the field of applied econometrics and economic development. He is a member of both the National Economic Association and National Board of Realtors, recently founded the Link Youth Scholarship Fund and completed the NYC marathon. Brian is also a member of the Papastathis Sales Group, with William Raveis Real Estate in lower Fairfield County, CT. As Connecticut's top producers in the fields of exceptional properties and new construction, the group accounted for over $30 million in residential real estate sales in 2004. He also serves as Tournament Director for The Link Celebratory Golf Outing, an annual golf outing and celebratory fundraiser providing one of the largest athletic scholarships in the Connecticut Public School System.

 

Tony Rizzaro - Executive Producer IMC Expo

 

For over 20 years Mr. Tony Rizzaro has been aggressively successful introducing "new" technologies to market and bringing innovation to the enterprise. He is co-founder and managing partner of Studio IMC and the IMC Expo.  

Among many Fortune 500/100 companies, he has been highly valued for his industry-leading ability to integrate the creative process with some of the most valued emerging technologies. It was this innovative approach that helped launch many first-to-market initiatives around the world.

In fact, the origin of many interactive and immersive environments, sales force automation tools, Internet and Intranet applications can be traced to Mr. Rizzaro.  

At age 25, he founded perhaps the first truly interactive marketing agency in the country, combining award-winning marketing and design with highly advanced technology. His vision enabled him to offer unprecedented design and marketing solutions as well as a wealth of tactical solutions that enabled companies to become more successful.

Over the years, his client list has included such prestigious names as Heineken USA, Disney, Marriott, Nabisco, Diageo, L'Oréal, Revlon, Allied Domecq, Remy Amerique, Skyy, Schieffelin & Somerset, GE Capital, Con Agra, Barton Inc., Triarc Beverages, Hartmann Luggage, WestPoint Stevens, Dime Savings Bank, Playtex, TGI Fridays, Houlihan's, Red Lobster, Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Café, Chili's, and The Bali Corporation, just to name a few.

What's more, his partners have included such prestigious names as MCI WorldCom, Peppers and Rogers and Hewlett Packard USA.

Mr. Rizzaro has been asked to speak at Universities and Conferences throughout the world on the topic of immerging technologies. He has been featured in many National Publications such as NY Times, Gannett, Wall Street Journal, POP Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, 1to1 Marketing, has been interviewed on technology segments hosted by Dan Rather, Technology Week, and networks such as CBS and ABC News.

His formal education took place at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Columbia University (for telecommunications and computer science), and Pratt Institute of Technology. Mr. Rizzaro has also been involved with individuals from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) for over 20 years and has helped to advance the careers of many of its students and researchers.

 

James Tunick- Executive Producer IMC Expo

James Tunick is a new media engineer, artist, and co-founder of Studio IMC, a new media design studio and artist management firm based in New York City (www.StudioIMC.com). Tunick has worked with clients such as the Museum of Modern Art PS1, Hennessy, Diesel and others. He is also Executive Producer of the Annual IMC Expo (www.IMCexpo.net). Tunick's most recent work involves the design, development, and marketing of immersive and mobile visual displays with Studio IMC partners Tony Rizzaro and Brian Karwosky for major clients in retail, architecture, marketing, and education. In addition, Tunick is currently developing interactive environments and audiovisual installations for stage and for museums with Studio IMC Principal Designers Jean-Marc Gauthier and Miro Kirov. Tunick graduated from Yale University with high honors in his interdisciplinary major (American Studies and Interactive New Media) and he is currently building/writing his thesis and earning a masters degree in new media from NYU ITP.

Among the many multimedia events Tunick has produced and organized is Interfaced Culture at Yale University, an international conference on interactive new media technology in the arts for which he received a grant with Yale Professors Dr. Mathew Suttor and Dr. Kathryn Alexander in 2002. He also currated a Studio IMC show at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City in 2004 called "Convergence: The Collision of Physical and Virtual Space in Digital Art," featuring the works of Studio IMC's top artists and engineers.

In 2002 Tunick received a grant to design and build a digital media studio for the arts at Yale. Photographs of his interactive 9/11 memorial sculpture were featured in Rollingstone Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Yale Daily News. In addition, he was selected as a finalist in the Y50K business plan competition in 2004 for a social networking and online archiving software program he co-founded with Derek Lomas and Michael Kai at Yale called theScape.com.

Tunick also designed and built the immersive new media installation, "Infinite City" with Miro Kirov, Studio IMC Principal Designer and 3D Animator, and Jean-Marc Gauthier, Studio IMC Principal, ITP professor, and author. The installation involves real-time interactive 3D graphics and gestural control over visuals and spatialized sound through ultrasonic sensors all within an immersive virtual environment. This pioneering work was in the Studio IMC show at the Chelsea Art Museum and was in the September/October 2004 issue of NYArts Magazine. The work is also featured in Jean-Marc Gauthier's upcoming book, ""Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web", to be published by Focal Press, Elsevier Science (2004).

In addition to producing the IMC Expo and finishing his master's at NYU ITP, Tunick is presently launching a Studio IMC magazine about technology, politics and culture to be launched in January 2007, and raising VC funding for the Studio IMC Research Lab & Gallery Space to be founded in New York City in January 2008.

Please contact JTunick@StudioIMC.com for a full CV