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2023 list of 50+ Immersive Things that mix storytelling, performance, play, design & code

2023 list of 50+ Immersive Things that mix storytelling, performance, play, design & code

Welcome to the 5th edition of the annual “Immersive Things” list. A collection of innovative works from around the world pushing at the…
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Digital Storytelling II — the art, craft & biz of storytelling in 21c (Spring 2024)

Digital Storytelling II — the art, craft & biz of storytelling in 2...

Digital Storytelling II lead to the development of Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (Columbia DSL) as…
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Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Production — FALL 2023

Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Production — FALL 2023

How to register for this class
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World-Building: Practice and Co-Creation, Syllabus for Spring 2023

World-Building: Practice and Co-Creation, Syllabus for Spring 2023

Welcome to World-Building: Practice and Co-Creation. This is a living document that contains assignments, the schedule, and requirements…
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Shar Simpson
Lifting the curtain on Sundance — Frankenstein AI: a monster made by many

Lifting the curtain on Sundance — Frankenstein AI: a monster made b...

Even 200 years after its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein still resonates. This brilliant story gave birth to science fiction as a…
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Rachel Eve Ginsberg
“A Dinner with Frankenstein AI” in Mineral Point, Wisconsin — population 2,481

“A Dinner with Frankenstein AI” in Mineral Point, Wisconsin — popul...

Developed and produced in collaboration with the Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab, Frankenstein AI is a…
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Introduction to Immersive Tech-Driven Theatre

Introduction to Immersive Tech-Driven Theatre

The following “how-to” was written by Peter English and centers on the making of The Raven.
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Designing for Immersion within Zoom

Designing for Immersion within Zoom

Experimenting with virtual connection in a time of social distancing
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Columbia DSL’s Sandbox: episode 005 — Balancing Story & Interactivity with Loren Hammonds (Tribeca…

Columbia DSL’s Sandbox: episode 005 — Balancing Story & Interactivi...

Recorded live at Film at Lincoln Center. Lance Weiler sits down with Loren Hammonds (Senior Programmer Film & Immersive, Tribeca Film…
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The making of “Where There’s Smoke” an immersive storytelling installation @ Tribeca Film Festival

The making of “Where There’s Smoke” an immersive storytelling insta...

Last year at the Tribeca Film Festival something mysterious took place at 359 Canal Street. For those who stepped off the sidewalk and into…
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Immersive Production — an experiential lab course at Columbia University School of the Arts

Immersive Production — an experiential lab course at Columbia Unive...

This fall I’ll be teaching Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Production at Columbia University School of the Arts. The course is a mix…
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Emergent Concepts in New Media Art — Fall Semester 2018

Emergent Concepts in New Media Art — Fall Semester 2018

Last semester Professor Robert J. King and I co-taught a new course at Columbia University on New Media Art designed to mixed theory and…
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Taking the leap: embracing vulnerability when prototyping immersive stories

Taking the leap: embracing vulnerability when prototyping immersive...

In August I playtested/prototyped my newest project Where There’s Smoke at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in NYC. It was a wonderful…
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Digital Storytelling II: Building Storyworlds the art, craft & biz of storytelling in 21c — Spring…

Digital Storytelling II: Building Storyworlds the art, craft & biz ...

This marks the ninth time that I’ll be teaching Digital Storytelling II, a course I developed in 2011. The class gave birth to the…
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Unleashing the imagination by releasing our bodies

Unleashing the imagination by releasing our bodies

Zoom-bodies as the perfect antidote to our challenge of creatively enabling a community of strangers to produce collective art in a two…
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