Lila Chitayat - Architectural and Space Design
Lila Chitayat is an architect, designer and an experimental practitioner of design through computational processes.
Lila holds a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, a B.Arch from Pratt Institute, NY. and a B.Sc from Holon Inst. of Technology. In 2002 Lila founded LinC Studio, a trans-disciplinary design environment utilizing computational patterns to produce a wide range of projects, from industrial design to space design, full scale installations and architecture.
Lila was chosen as the 2009-10 designer of the art exhibitions at Tico House of the Israeli museum In Jerusalem and is working on several other exhibits in Tel Aviv.
She is recently collaborating in interdisciplinary projects connecting interactive use of space, text and movement. Lila is a full faculty member at the HIT institute of technology teaching digital architecture in academic Institutes in Israel and is examining Ideas of movement, gestures and temporal motion as inscribers of urban space. This is the second project she is collaborating with her brother Alon.
Alon Chitayat - VIsual and Experience Design
Alon Chitayat is a visual artist, designer, illustrator and animator producing public and private works for companies, film and television industry, as well as for galleries.
Alon is the founder of “Animishmish” visual design studio (www.animishmish.com).
Alon Chitayat is also part of the collective filmmakers “O_o films”, creating viral video content for the web.
Alon’s work was exhibited nationally and internationally. His graduation project “Pop Goes the Weasel”, a stop motion animation, received extreme exposure on the web including featuring on Youtube’s homepage scoring over 430,000 views. “Pop Goes the Weasel” was also nominated for the “Internet Oscar Awards” in Israel in the category of “Best Short Film of 2008″.
Alon’s illustration work can also be seen on cinema. He was lucky to work as an illustrator for “Bunraku” (2009), a feature film directed by Guy Moshe (starring Josh hartnett, Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore).
Tal Chalosin - Technical Director
Tal Chalosin, co-founded Innovid (www.innovid.com), a platform for engaging brand experiences in and around on-line video. Innovid is offering a revolutionary platform which enables the insertion of virtual interactive products into the video stream in post production. Chalozin is leading the research and development department and acting as Innovid’s CTO.
Early 2006, Chalozin co-founded the GarageGeeks (www.garageGeeks.org) - a non profit organization which set to be a physical & virtual space for multi disciplinary creative people to meet, innovate and build non-commercial projects that would otherwise may not come to life. The GarageGeeks community consist of more then 1,000 active members.
Some of Tal’s work presented is major conventions around the world such as: Wired magazine’s Next Fest convention in LA, Le Web’3 in Paris, VON in Boston, and numerous events and museums in Israel. one of the most famous was the GuitarHeroNoid (www.guitarheronoid.com)
Tal was nominated by Business Week magazine as Europe’s best young (under 30) entrepreneur of 2008.