The Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center (VMASC) is prototyping a narrative modeling tool that expands on my original design – a platform that annotates how interpretation changes over time, in the real world. This modeling platform is planned to include the lyrical flow dynamics of Niccolo Casas, a follow-on from our collaborative project supported by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, and enable us to produce…
Category: Narrative
Extreme Interdisciplinarity
My team are halfway through developing an approach to computational reasoning that represents interactions between whole systems, such as neural circuits and cognition. I’ve led other interdisciplinary projects but never with such dramatically different disciplinary members: neuroscience, narrative analysis, computer science, biology and design. As a visual example, consider the different modes of modeling we…
A Tour of the Future of Storytelling Summit
A few years ago, Charlie Melcher was a successful book publisher who realized his industry was being swept away. So he invited the best storytellers, technical experts and brandmakers to a roundtable discussion about the future of storytelling, in order to embrace whatever was coming next. He asked the group: what are the most…
The Safe Place
I’m collaborating on a system called redframer, which would be a site that allows people to draw on and comment on films. On the edge of my attention, a hurricane has been raging: women who give their opinion online, usually about depictions of women, are being harassed at a criminal level. I’ve finally realized that the system I’m…