Columbia DSL's Sandbox

Columbia University School of the Arts' Digital Storytelling Lab•digitalstorytellinglab.com

Sandbox is a podcast from the Columbia University School of the Arts' Digital Storytelling Lab that explores new forms and functions of storytelling.

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Introducing the RE:START LAB: tools & methods for uncertain times

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 program teaches the basics of futures thinking, speculative design and narrative theory, as participants work together to synthesize cross-industry insights and reveal opportunities that might have otherwise remained hidden in plain sight. For more info plea...

Oct 20, 2020•26 min•Ep. 6

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

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-specific installations that attempt to balance story and interactivity - work where those formerly known as the audience become storytellers and part of the experience. Topics covered: curating immersive works, the history of immersive at Tribeca, logistica...

Jun 26, 2019•33 min•Ep. 5

Exploring Curation, Funding & Exhibition Models for Immersive Storytelling

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 steep. Not to mention the design, production and exhibition can be costly. As the interest in experiential work is on the rise there is an opportunity to discuss and examine ethical and sustainable funding models for storytellers who are pushing at the edges ...

Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 4

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

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 environment that mixed food, conversation and artificial intelligence. This interactive dinner experience is created by pioneers in storytelling and technology Lance Weiler, Rachel Ginsberg and Nick Fortugno, and presented in cooperation with the National Theatre’s...

Nov 28, 2018•37 min•Ep. 3

The sensory connection between art and science with Ani Liu

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 presented internationally, and featured on National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, TED, Core77, PCMag, FOX and WIRED. Her work has been shown at Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Mus...

Oct 26, 2018•30 min•Ep. 2

Designing Immersive Theatre for One with Michael Rau

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 one...

Sep 16, 2018•33 min•Ep. 1

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