Ivan Cash

Welcome Ivan Cash to the CreativeMornings stage!

Life is Short, Make Great Art


How To Champion Bold, Creative Storytelling In An Age Of Safe Bets, Short Attention Spans, And Algorithm Overload

The purpose of creative work is to awaken something inside the audience so that they are inspired, provoked, and enlivened, and afterwards, things will never be the same. However, in a world where algorithms control what gets seen and the attention economy commodifies every second of engagement, creativity is under siege. This has led to a slew of safe, predictable work, optimized for shallow, short-term engagement.

Through powerful insights and real-world examples of passion projects and high-stakes brand work, award-winning artist and filmmaker Ivan Cash dives headfirst into these challenges. This talk offers strategies for pushing the creative envelope—over and over again. Attendees will learn how to embrace risk and bring daring, original ideas to life, leaving inspired to make bold creative work that cuts through the noise, transcends the ordinary, and resonates deeply on a human level.

About Ivan Cash

Ivan Cash is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, and founder of Cash Studios, a creative studio that births non-traditional creative projects known for their bold human lens.

As an artist, Cash's work has received hundreds of millions of views online, multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees, been collected twice by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, shown at the Brooklyn Museum, presented at Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, Sundance Film Festival, and TEDx, and featured in news outlets including The New York Times, Wired, TIME, BBC, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Adweek, and Wall Street Journal.

Cash has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30, Adweek Creative 100, Print New Visual Artist, and ADC Young Gun. He is currently working on his first feature-length documentary, exploring the cost of being an artist through the lens of his 80-year-old father, glass sculptor Sydney Cash, Executive Produced by Emmy-winning actor Mandy Patinkin and writer/actor Kathryn Grody.