Experiments in Generative Storytelling w. Lance Weiler
The line between storyteller and audience is eroding. Generative tools are challenging the authorship and ownership of stories. In this edition of Futurespaces we’ll be joined by Lance Weiler, an emerging media artist and founding director of Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab.
The Columbia DSL designs stories for the 21st Century. Through a diverse range of creative and research practices originating in fields from the arts, humanities and technology - the lab is a space for speculation, creativity and co-creation.
Lance will pull back the curtain on two of his recent projects that are experimenting with generative storytelling.
Where There’s Smoke is a traveling exhibition that employs elements of immersive theatre, interactive documentary, and emergent technology to co-create a personalized generative work about life, loss and memory. A personal project by Weiler, Where There’s Smoke is a collaboration with the Columbia DSL and the schools’ Narrative Medicine program.
Blockchain Fairy Tales is a generative storytelling prototype from the Columbia DSL where those formerly known as the audience become architects of the future. Together participants explore a playful world, contend with magical threats, and face the question: What if Happily Ever After is Not Guaranteed? Together, participants create new myths that leverage Blockchain technology for creative purposes beyond commerce.
We'll have a 30 minute presentation followed by a 30 minute Q&A with Josh Goldblum (Bluecadet x artwrld) - if you have any questions you'd like Josh to ask Lance, feel free to email him at josh@futurespaces.com
Hope to see you there!
