246 Hesburgh Library
Join us for a Data Poetics talk by Graham Sack on narrative and virtual reality.
Graham is an award-winning filmmaker, new media creator, and academic whose work explores the intersection of narrative and emerging technologies. He is the recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Sloan Foundation Fellowship for his episodic television series THE HARVARD COMPUTERS, which tells the story of America’s first female astronomers.
Graham wrote and directed Lincoln in the Bardo, a VR experience for New York Times VR that was shortlisted for an Emmy for Innovation in Interactive Programming and was based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author George Saunders. Graham wrote and directed The Interpretation of Dreams, a four-part episodic series for Samsung’s VR Pilot Season that explores immersive dreamscapes based on Freud’s case studies of the unconscious. Graham co-created “objects in mirror AR closer than they appear,” an immersive theater + augmented reality installation at Tribeca Storyscapes 2018 that transferred to Next Door at New York Theater Workshop. He produced "Hamlet 360: Thy Father's Spirit" with Google, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and WGBH. He is developing an original VR episodic series with Felix and Paul Studios. Graham previously wrote and directed Don’t Look Away an interactive cinematic VR experience about aging, time, and the scarcity of attention and subject:object, a VR experience for New York Theatre Workshop about the private life of objects. He also served as creative director on Power in Hand, a VR documentary for the Rockefeller Foundation and Matter Unlimited. Graham is an alum of New Inc, the New Museum’s art, technology, and design incubator. Learn more about Graham Sack.
This talk is free and open to all. Registration is not required.
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