The stories we consume today are authored by not just humans but algorithmically tuned machines. If a story is a series of events that are suddenly given priority, importance, and structure, who or what decides this? Hosted in ArtCenter's Immersion Lab and created in collaboration with Snap Inc Research, The Future of Storytelling with Augmented Reality is a transdisciplinary studio that will explore the next phase of narrative design using cameras, machine vision, machine learning, augmented reality, and game development software. Through presentations from Snap and creative prototyping in the Immersion Lab, students will propose new ways to identify, author, and share events in collaboration with autonomous machines. Together, we will examine how the camera and machine vision - feature, pattern, object, facial recognition - can co-author, revealing to us new types of events and details that once went unnoticed. How might these new machine envisioned stories change how we understand and relate to one another? The studio will result in students sharing their final interactive prototypes and project proposals with Snap. Exceptional work will be given an opportunity to be presented at a global interactive media conference in the summer. An interest in using technology to inform your creative process is an important requirement in the studio.
Requisites
Must be 5th Term or above