The RE:START lab is a live online learning program that equips participants from all over the world with proven creative tools and fresh perspectives to tackle design challenges of all kinds, whether brought about by the pandemic or not. The

Balancing Story & Interactivity: a conversation with Loren Hammonds (Tribeca Film Festival)

Jun 26th, 2019 32m 47s

Recorded live at Lincoln Center. Lance Weiler sits down with Loren Hammonds (Senior Programmer Film & Immersive, Tribeca Film Festival) for a fireside chat. The candid conversation explores the challenges and opportunities of staging site-speci

Exploring Curation, Funding & Exhibition Models for Immersive Storytelling

Mar 11th, 2019 1h 14m

Getting an immersive project that mixes story and code up and running is challenging. Often the work represents something that is new and can be difficult to explain. The learning curve for potential funders and prospective audiences can be ste

A Dinner with Frankenstein AI: storytelling, food & artificial intelligence

Nov 28th, 2018 36m 30s

A Dinner with Frankenstein AI had its world premiere at IDFA earlier this month. Over the course of two intimate evenings A Dinner with Frankenstein dug deeply into the tensions between human and machine in an immersive, multisensory environme

The sensory connection between art and science with Ani Liu

Oct 26th, 2018 29m 32s

Ani Liu is an research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science.Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity.Ani's work has been p

Designing Immersive Theatre for One with Michael Rau

Sep 16th, 2018 32m 51s

For the first episode of Columbia DSL's Sandbox, we sat down with immersive theatre director and Stanford University Professor Michael Rau for a look at how he approaches his creative practice. Michael crafts immersive theatre experiences for o

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