Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Production is a mix of theory and practice. Teams of students work to design, build and deploy a digital storytelling experience that is staged for an audience at the end of the semester. …
It’s that time of the year again. The following list was compiled by storytellers from around the globe. Special thanks to everyone who took the time to share the immersive things that stood out in 2020. …
This marks the tenth time that I’ll be teaching Digital Storytelling II, a course I developed in 2011. The class gave birth to the Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (Columbia DSL) as well as helping to inform a new MA in emerging media that mixes theory…
Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Production is a mix of theory and practice. Teams of students work to design, build and deploy a digital storytelling experience that is staged for an audience at the end of the semester. …
Zoom-bodies as the perfect antidote to our challenge of creatively enabling a community of strangers to produce collective art in a two hour virtual gathering.
The following was written by Romy Nehme
From the Futures hosted its fourth global virtual gathering Thursday, May 7th. It was our sixth event (including two workshops) since the shelter-in-place orders froze all life around the globe. …
Continued experiments in prototyping futures to understand our present
The following post was written in collaboration with Romy Nehme of Beautiful Seams.
When we step back and look at what is surfacing within the From the Futures project, we’re struck by the shared ethnography of a unique moment in history…
Cursors frantically dart across the screen like a swarm of ants. There is a level of confusion at first as everyone attempts to get their bearings. Over the next 20 minutes, participants will be working together in silence to shape a number of possible futures. …
The following “how-to” was written by Peter English and centers on the making of The Raven. Drawing from over 50 works by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven invited 24 guests at a time to explore a darkened early 19th Century Mansion. Each guest was given an enchanted lantern, powered by…
Experimenting with virtual connection in a time of physical distancing
Overview
Until recently video conferencing was something that one avoided. However in this time of physical distancing what was once a secondary form of communication has been thrust to the forefront. At Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (aka Columbia DSL) we’ve been using Zoom for a few…
Last year at the Tribeca Film Festival something mysterious took place at 359 Canal Street. For those who stepped off the sidewalk and into the boarded-up storefront, a threshold to another world awaited. The 1,400 sq ft space which sat empty for over 20 years was transformed into an immersive…
