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Narrative Constellations: Exploring Choice, Time, and Location-based Storytelling is a class for artists and writers wanting to explore storytelling through choice, time, and location-based narratives across different mediums, from objects to spaces to sunsets. From choose-your-own-adventure books to video games to immersive theater, we’ll explore stories that change and adapt according to the player’s choices. We’ll create our own interactive narratives through a series of small physical and digital projects, with a final project to play and share. Lecture topics will include a survey of various types of physical and digital interactive storytelling, including narrative installations, immersive theater, mail-based art, immersive audio and phone plays, and location-based game design. This class will teach Twine, an open-source tool for creating web-based interactive nonlinear stories. This class will also cover audience safety and care; choice and story structures; ending construction; and documentation.
No class on January 19th
Laptop with webcam, smart device with audio player and camera, headphones, basic craft materials (paper, markers, etc).
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April Soetarman (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer who creates public art, immersive installations, games, and weird side projects. Her site-responsive works play with the language of everyday objects and speculative institutions to explore complex human emotions. Her installations have been supported by the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and CultureHub, among others, as well as anonymously installed in dozens of public spaces across the country. April was also known for WeirdSideProjects.com, her previously-anonymous series of ongoing experiments in code, text, and street art. Her most notable projects include The Museum of Almost Realities (2017), The Department of Emotional Labor (2019), and The End of the Day (2020). April has a BA in architecture and music from UC Berkeley and was an Experiential Design Founding Fellow at Experience Institute.
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Lee 소라 Beckwith is sometimes an educator but always a learner. They currently teach high schoolers computer science, math, and creative writing on Lenape land (Bronx, NY). Their recent research centers on rethinking classroom power dynamics through curriculum negotiation. These days, they are thinking a lot about fractals and film scores.
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Applications open until Applications closed on November 18, 2024.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on December 3, 2024. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + $12.26 in processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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