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From immersive projects in the field of news, to the link between data visualization and virtual reality, or the reconstitution of past cultural artefacts through new incredible photo-based 3D rendering techniques, what can those experiments tell us about the next chapters of visual storytelling?
Meet the cultural innovators and technologists who are taking a highly contemporary stance on image making.
Panelists
Matthieu Lorrain, Creative Innovation Lead, The ZOO, Google
Caitlin Burns, COO, Datavized
Tatjana Dzambazova, Technology Whisperer, Autodesk
Moderated by Julia Sourikoff, The Future of Storytelling
Presented by Studio 55 | @st55nyc.
Bios
Matthieu Lorrain is a New York City-based innovator specialized in creative technology, product development, and digital marketing. His recent work is mostly focused on interactive storytelling, virtual reality, augmented reality, and spatial storytelling. He currently leads the incubation of cutting edge interactive experiences at Google and help brands to push the boundaries of creativity. His work has led to the development of campaigns for Playstation, Oreo, J&J, Motorola, Lay's, Ford, AMEX, Renault, Unilever, Nestlé, AT&T, and Google. Past projects have won several awards (FWA x4, Webby's Honoree, Web Marketing Association Award x4, O MTV Music Award finalist) and were featured in Fast Company, the Verge, PSFK, Ad Week, Mashable, and Gizmodo.
Website: www.matthieulorrain.com
Twitter: @totemko, @google
Caitlin Burns currently serves as Vice Chair of the Producers' Guild of America New Media Council. She has spent a decade working with narrative intellectual property franchises, independent artists, brands, and philanthropic initiatives. Developing content strategies, overseeing multiplatform storyworlds and supervising localization campaigns spanning the globe, she understands what it takes to create a success story. Her past work includes: Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney Fairies, Tron Legacy, and Descendants for The Walt Disney Company, James Cameron's Avatar for Fox, Halo for Microsoft, The Happiness Factory for The Coca-Cola Company, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Nickelodeon, and Transformers for Hasbro. She has also worked with Sony, Showtime, Pepperidge Farm, Scholastic, Tribeca New Media Fund, FEMSA, Diageo, Wieden+Kennedy, Odd Division, Tool of North America, Hush, Campfire, Reebok, Stratasys, and UNICEF. Her independent feature McCarren Park, a film distributed by geolocated mobile app, premiered at the Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Day and screened at New York Film Festival.
Website: www.datavized.com
Twitter: @datavize
Tatjana Dzambazova is a trained architect with 12 years of experience in architecture and design in Vienna and London. Perennially fascinated by how technology enables a more creative life, she decided to continue her career in the digital design world and has now been with Autodesk for 14 years. A staunch believer that we are all born with a sense of creativity and innovation and the need to express it, Dzambazova has been telling stories about technologies that empower while at the same time leading product development teams to transform powerful algorithms into tools accessible by a wide range of people. Most recently, she has been leading the development of Autodesk Memento to empower artists, scientists, curators, media professionals, and others to tell their stories though the digitization of captured reality.
Website: www.autodesk.com
Twitter: @TanjaDzambaz
Julia Sourikoff
The Future of StoryTelling (FoST) is an annual summit and community platform that celebrates how media, technology, and communications are evolving in the digital age. Julia Sourikoff has been with the organization since its founding and helped launch the inaugural, New York-based FoST summit in 2012 for 500 invited guests. As Senior Producer, she is involved in programming and curation, partnerships and fundraising, as well as driving new initiatives like the internationally-traveling exhibition, Sensory Stories, the FoST Prize, the FoST for Good social impact network, and the FoST Fellowship. In the spring of 2016, FoST will launch the world's first VR festival dedicated to showcasing the best immersive storytelling in virtual reality.
Website: www.futureofstorytelling.org
Twitter: @fostorg
