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Join us for a series of presentations with leading immersive designers & artists, & learn the ins-and-outs of creating compelling interactive work to address & bring awareness to social issues.
How do you co-design with communities & build strategic partnerships around specific issues? How do you launch & engage audiences to bring awareness to topics in a digestible & interactive way? What are the methodologies & hurdles?
Engage with some of the forerunners in this field, & get a glimpse at new & interesting works that promote social advocacy through augmented reality & other immersive storytelling techniques.
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VIDEO GALLERY EXHIBITION:
Developed at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP & launched in 2014, Priya's Shakti was a first-of-its-kind fusion of augmented reality, comic books, & social engagement. The story of Priya, a rape survivor & modern-day superhero, shattered taboos that exist in India on the subject of violence against women.
The second volume of this ongoing series, Priya's Mirror, sees the heroine joining forces with acid attack survivors to take on the demon king Ahankar. As with its predecessor, Priya's Mirror makes use of augmented reality to bring the 2D world of the comic to vivid life & unlock a number of interactive story elements.
After the panel, you'll have the chance to view scenes from Priya's Mirror in our Gallery space.
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FEATURING:
Navid Khonsari: Founder & Creative Director, iNK Stories. Navid is widely known for having developed the cinematic look & feel for groundbreaking AAA video game franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, The Warriors, & more. He is the creator of the ground-breaking interactive game & experience, 1979 Revolution. Players control Reza Shirazi, an aspiring photojournalist, who returns to Iran amidst the Iranian Revolution. The game was nominated for a BAFTA & presented at Sundance & Tribeca Film Festivals.
Heidi Boisvert: CEO & Creative Director, futurePerfect lab. Heidi is a new media artist, creative technologist, experience designer, researcher & writer. She founded the futurePerfect lab, a boutique creative agency that works with non-profits to develop imaginative applications of integrated media & emerging technology. Heidi was formerly the Media Director at Breakthrough where she designed, developed & promoted a range of viral, new media, & pop culture campaigns that helped raise awareness & instigate policy change on pressing social issues. She created the first 3D social change game, ICED I Can End Deportation, to shift the frame around unfair U.S. immigration policies. Heidi also designed America 2049, an alternative reality game on Facebook about pluralism, which was nominated for Games for Change & Katerva awards. Most recently, she co-founded, XTH, an open-source bio-creative technology start up, & was named a Harvestworks Creativity + Technology = Enterprise Fellow as well as a Media Impact Fellow at the Harmony Institute. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Technologies at New York City College of Technology (CUNY).
Ram Devineni: Producer / Creator, Priya's Shakti & Priya's Mirror. Ram produced The Russian Woodpecker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival & was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. His most recent film, The Karma Killings, about the Nithari serial killings, is out exclusively on Netflix worldwide. He is the creator of the interactive social-activist comic books, Priya's Shakti & Priya's Mirror, which received the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund from the Ford Foundation & supported by the World Bank, & honored by UN Women as a gender equality champion. Recently, he was named by Fast Company magazine as one of the top creative people in business. More info at www.priyashakti.com.
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