A couple images from this weekend’s “bit by bit”. We weren’t quite prepared for what would happen. I suppose in retrospect, given the amazingly talented professionals we’d managed to recruit,
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A hard hat dinner
Last night, the Institute hosted a Hard Hat Dinner. We invited 14 artists, architects, journalists, entrepreneurs, and friends for a special event to celebrate the construction of our new space.
bit by bit – March 1, 1-5pm, Pulitzer Hall
“bit by bit” is an event that joins seven renowned storytellers with seven prominent technologists in teams of two and challenges them to make something new together, mixing word and code,
A weekend of storymaking
Our event “bit by bit” began Saturday with a student event — We spent the day speculating, designing and prototyping new ways of telling stories. Lance Weiler and his team
Explorations in digital storytelling 2/22-3/1
The democratization of creative tools—code, data and algorithms—have changed the relationship between creator and audience. Stories are spilling off screens and into the real world and a new storytelling grammar
Ensemble: Exploring Complementary Strengths of Leaders and Crowds in Creative Collaboration
A story scene showing (a) the winning draft for a scene. (b) Tabs can be used to switch to different drafts, with the winning draft being shown by default. (c)
A platform for journalism
The Brown Institute invaded an otherwise unsuspecting eating establishment in the West Village to meet with an awesome group of journalists, linguists, and technologists. The goal: discuss the state of
Magic Grant CityBeat accepted to WWW 2014
Congratulations to members of the 2013/14 Magic Grant CityBeat, whose paper was accepted to the demo track at WWW 2014. Their paper, “CityBeat: Real-time Social Media Visualization of Hyper-local City
Panel Discussion Video Available
In December, the Stanford side of the Institute played host to a livel discussion on the future of journalism. As reported in The Daily Dish, “To a room full of journalists