Glorianna Davenport

Research Affiliate

Primary DLC

MIT Media Lab

MIT Room: E15-401

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Interactive Cinema
Prototyping New Multimedia Forms
Developing Composition Tools
Building Computational Representations for Content
Nonlinear Storytelling
Storyteller Systems
Distributed Media Stories

Research Summary

Research focuses on a new paradigm: the "media fabric" -- a semi-intelligent organism where lines of communication, threads of meaning, chains of causality, and streams of consciousness converge and intertwine to form a rich tapestry of creative story potentials, meaningful real-time dialogues, social interactions, and personal or communal art- and story-making. The fabric is characterized by six critical attributes: synergistic, integral to our everyday lives, mindful, improvisational, inviting self-reflection and connected.

Recent Work