Story I/O returns Saturday, September 25th for a day of exploration and experimentation focused around decentralized storytelling and the metaverse. Join storytellers, makers, hackers, activists, educators and students as we co-create imagined futures and new myths in an effort to see what it takes to design stories related to climate that can last seven generations. […]
Our work at the Columbia DSL is featured in a new field study by the National Endowment for the Arts entitled “Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium.” We’re honored to be in the company of such amazing artists and organizations pushing at the edges of tech and art. We’d […]
Columbia DSL director Lance Weiler and Dr. Deborah Starr of Columbia University’s Department of Narrative Medicine jointly presented “Where There’s Smoke” at the 2021 edition of the University of Insubria’s COMET a conference on communication, medicine and ethics. From the abstract… Storytelling, Grief, and Memory “Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab, in […]
We’re thrilled to announce this year’s winners… 2021 Breakthrough Award: Darkfield Radio (UK) Special Jury Prize: Sylvia (US) Digital Dozen: Agence, Darkfield Radio, Kentucky Route Zero Act V, Lollipop 2, Lure, Masterpiece: Nighthawks, Motto, Play Inside, Remote Tourism, Scarecrow VRC, Sylvia, The Third Day: Autumn. Presented virtually on April 7, 2021, by Jessica Brillhart, director […]
We’re excited to share a new episode of Columbia DSL’s Sandbox podcast. DSL director Lance Weiler is joined by Rachel Ginsberg (Director of the Interaction Lab at Copper Hewitt) and Jorgen van der Sloot (co-founder Minkowski an Agency for Applied Futures) for a conversation about speculative futures and charting paths in uncertain times. During the […]
Columbia DSL is excited to announce a new monthly prototyping series entitled TEST/BREAK. Each month we’ll focus on a number of projects that are in various stages of development. TEST/BREAK provides a forum for creatives exploring new forms and functions of storytelling. Focus is placed on projects that are pushing at the edges of narrative […]