Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Collaborator: Kevin Bleich I drafted a new user scenario and elevator statement, then submitted the project for inclusion in the ITP Spring Show 2011. We find out on May 6th if it’s accepted. Project Summary Interactive Letter Box is an … Read More →
Category Archives: Collective Storytelling
Reflections on Collective Storytelling ~ Audioboo Exquisite Corpse
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Concept I began with a simple concept: collaborate with friends to create an audio-based exquisite corpse, a kind of found poem, using our favorite quotes. Assigned to respond to Joshua Harris’ work, and to other network-mediated collaborative storytelling projects, by … Read More →
Collective Storytelling ~ Visiting NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin How will Volumes of Voices’ visitors touring the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building share favorite treasures from its collections? They already are. Across Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and elsewhere, library users post thought fragments, images, and video about what they’ve … Read More →
Family Album ~ Memory, Objects, Location
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit When family photos are, more and more often, digital, what could the keepsakes we make with them look like? In the case of museums and archives with collections built from such artifacts, are there new ways to bridge the analog/digital … Read More →
The Hourly Comic ~ Reflections
Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit This week I choose to perform the Hourly Comic because I wanted to explore the storytelling potential of word and image, and I thought it would push me outside my comfort zone. I intended, at first, to try drawing, though my … Read More →
The Hourly Comic ~ Finding Adventures in the Everyday
Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit The Hourly Comic ~ February 7, 2011 9:16am ~ Breakfast, the same every day: oatmeal and tea. Today, an orange. It has seeds in it. 10:15am ~ Productivity planning takes longer than expected, but filtering Instapaper articles into folders reveals accumulation … Read More →
Hint fiction & the six word story…
Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit Six word story (The Moment) Jack, only among other officers anonymous. Twenty-five word story In the end, monosyllable and suitcase. Everything, really, a little wrong. The way he – alone – acknowledges: desire dissipates, insensibly withered, though they began besotted. Reflection … Read More →
Evolution ~ Interactive Letter Box becomes Found Letters : Jack & Matilda
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit & ITP Spring Show 2011 Collaborator: Kevin Bleich For the last part of the spring semester, I collaborated with my friend and classmate Kevin Bleich to evolve the technology, content, and concept for Interactive Letter Box into a functioning installation … Read More →