The project Sylvia, created by our creative technologist Ziv Schneider was awarded the Special Jury Award at the 2021 The Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards, presented by the Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab. The award was minted as an NFT on HIC et NUNC, a platform that uses Tezos and
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Announcing ‘Volumetric Reporting’: talks and workshops on applications of volumetric capture in journalism
Advances in sensing hardware and computer vision algorithms have enabled common smartphone and tablet devices to be able to see and understand the world in more ways than ever before. Not only are these devices able to display 3D content, but they are quickly being equipped with technologies that allow for 3D capture. Applications have
Sylvia featured in Variety magazine
“Instagram is full of wannabes, but there was only one Sylvia.” On November 24th, Damon Wise, Writer at Variety magazine interviewed our creative technologist Ziv Schneider about her project Sylvia, which premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) DocLab this month. In the interview, Ziv reflected on this five-month-long social experiment in making an aging
Introducing ‘AR for Everyone!’: A Journalism 360 Project
The Brown Institute is excited to announce that our team members Ziv Schneider and Juan Francisco Saldarriaga have been selected as some of the winners of the 2020 Journalism 360 Challenge. The initiative by the Online News Association and the Knight Foundation focuses on using immersive storytelling to discover new ways to engage audiences and advance
Meet ‘Sylvia’: A Project Challenging Ageism in Digital Space
Ziv Schneider is a creative technologist at The Brown Institute for Media Innovation based at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Schneider is breaking barriers in the sphere of Virtual Influencers. Virtual Influencers are computer-generated characters that exist on social media and appear as real humans – yet completely ignore the reality of aging. Like the