As a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grantee, Stanford Brown Director Maneesh Agrawala, together with digital artist Camille Utterback, were welcomed by the Commonwealth Club of California as guest speakers this past week in an event entitled “Meet the Geniuses: Inside the MacArthur Foundation’s Creative Thinking Awards.”
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Brown Grantee reports on Expanded Panama Canal
Brown Grantee Ana Graciela Mendez, along with Walt Bogdanich and Jacqueline Williams, have written a story on some complications arising following the openeing of Panama’s newest canals, in “Fender Benders on Water? (See: Expanded Panama Canal)” in the July 30, 2016 edition of the New York Times.
Brown Institute Makes Magic at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation are pleased to announce the launch of Art++, an augmented reality (AR) mobile app created for art museum visitors. Heralded as the cutting edge of media, augmented reality refers to any technology that superimposes graphics onto a user’s normal field of vision,
Magic Grantees Awarded IWMF Scholarships!
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) offers women journalists a wide range of opportunities to grow as media professionals, gain reporting experience, and be recognized for remarkable work. Each year, IWMF sponsors initatives in specific regions of the world. This year, two of these efforts were the African Great Lakes Reporting and Adelante intiatives. Of the
Behind the scenes of “On the Brink”
In two publications this week, the Magic Grant team of Evan Wexler, Marcelle Hopkins and Ben Moran take us behind the scenes of their VR documentary “On the Brink of Famine,” a moving experience of the hunger crisis in South Sudan. In a post for FRONTLINE’s blog, Marcelle Hopkins explains how the food crisis developed in South
Photo Expanded Fellow DiCampo Launches “What Went Wrong”
This week, Peter DiCampo, a fellow in the Photography Expanded program — a joint effort of the Magnum Foundation and the Brown Institute — launched his site “What Went Wrong”. DiCampo explains the goals the project. The efficiency of development aid is one of the more contentious issues of our time, but consistent journalistic investigation and
Reframe Iran selected for Kaleidoscope World Tour
Reframe Iran is a virtual reality experience taking place in eight Iranian artist studios throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. With a Gear VR headset, the user will be up close and personal with internationally acclaimed artists such as Shirin Neshat and Parviz Tanavoli. The narration and music for this experience are both minimal,
Visual Genome: A new interface for image search and retrieval
Visual Genome is a dataset, a knowledge base, an ongoing effort to connect structured image concepts to language. It allows for a multi-perspective study of an image, from pixel-level information like objects, to relationships that require further inference, and to even deeper cognitive tasks like question answering. It is a comprehensive dataset for training and
“On the Brink of Famine”
The Brown Institute and The PBS investigative series FRONTLINE continue their exploration of virtual reality (VR) in journalism today with the release of the first in a new series of 360-degree Facebook videos. Filmed on the ground in war-torn South Sudan, the series — On the Brink of Famine – transports viewers inside a hunger crisis that few people in