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Venue, 144 W 65th St, New York
Feb 11 (Tue) , 2025 @ 12:00 AM
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Join us for an engaging Columbia DSL meetup exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping film, TV, games, & publishing. This strategy-focused session will feature industry leaders sharing insights on the latest trends, opportunities, & challenges in their fields. The event will include a candid discussion on the impact of innovation & a collaborative opportunity-mapping exercise to envision the future of storytelling. Dont miss this chance to connect with thought leaders & reimagine the possibilities at the intersection of technology & creativity.


SPECIAL GIVEAWAY - Frank Rose will be giving away a signed copy of the paperback edition of his newest book The Sea We Swim In, which includes a new introduction on the impact of A.I.and the stories we tell ourselves about it.


Guests include (more guests to be announced soon)


Frank Rose is the author most recently of The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World, published in 2021 in the US & the UK & named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Next Big Idea Club. His previous book, The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, & the Way We Tell Stories, was a landmark work that showed how technology is changing the age-old art of storytelling. Sparked by a decade of reporting on media & technology for Wired, it has been called a grand trip by Britains New Scientist & a new media bible by the Italian daily la Repubblica.


A senior fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, Frank is also awards director at its Digital Storytelling Lab, where in 2016 he launched the annual Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards to honor the most innovative approaches to narrative from the past year. He currently writes on digital & conceptual art for the New York Times & on books for the Wall Street Journal. He is a former contributing editor at Wired & Esquire & a former contributing writer at Fortune.


Rachel Eve Ginsberg is a strategist & experience designer developing new approaches to community engagement with organizations & institutions. Previously, Rachel was the founding director of the Interaction Lab at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, & led strategy & partnerships for the Columbia University School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab, she returned to consultancy full-time in 2022. These days, Rachel takes on projects of various shapes & sizes, most commonly involving research & strategic planning, audience engagement strategy, & program design with clients in the GLAM world, academia, & industry. As part of this work, Rachel has been honored to facilitate workshops, give talks, & share findings with audiences all over the world, in person & online.


Romy Nehme is a strategy & communications designer & a writer. She is currently exploring the role of imagination & narrative transportation as a tool to crack open new pathways for thinking critically & compassionately about societal issues; working on launching a civic media network; & collaborating on different initiatives with the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab. Shes passionate about how we can prototype new collective conversations as part of its speculative interfaces for emergent futures practice.


She partnered with Technology, Humans & Taste, incorporating creative research methods as part of their Dim Sum creative process. Previously, she was the Head of Research & Strategy for VaynerMedia. During her time there, she created a new discipline & grew a team of 20 cultural researchers & strategists. Her philosophy is that everything is interesting & nothing is useless, & she loves embedding herself in various subcultures. She has also taught the Everything is Media course for creatives at Miami Ad School.

 
 
 
 
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