Posted 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Elayat will speak on “How Revolution is Changing Storytelling” at noon Wednesday, April 11, in Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. Admission is free.
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A leading interaction designer and creative technologist who documented the Egyptian Revolution in a unique way — for the Web — is coming to UW-La Crosse. Yasmin Elayat will share how she has re-thought use of technology and how people interface with it and the world around them.
Elayat will speak on “How Revolution is Changing Storytelling” at noon Wednesday, April 11, in Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. Admission is free.
Elayat, an Egyptian-American, has become known for designing and developing interactive installations for physical spaces and interactive storytelling projects for the Web. Originally from California, Yasmin grew up tinkering in interdisciplinary projects, always trying to merge her interests in arts and technology. She holds a bachelor’s in computer science from the American University in Cairo and a master’s from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
As a graduate student at ITP, Elayat combined her technical background with her passion for storytelling to develop a spectrum of interactive and video installations. She built a “Pepper’s Ghost” interactive hologram, interactive toys, an interactive water fountain oracle, games for mobile devices, animation shorts, and video installations. Yasmin exhibited her interactive video installation piece Lost and Found at the ITP Winter Show in 2007.
Wanting to recreate the same magical experience that she enjoyed as a child at museums like the Exploratorium, Yasmin pursued a career in the interactive exhibit space. She is co-creator of “18 Days In Egypt: A Collaborative Documentary Project about the Egyptian Revolution,” which asks the Egyptian community to tell the story of the ?rst 18 days of the revolution using the media they created within those 18 days. The communities’ stories will be presented as an interactive, web-native documentary ?lm experience where users can learn how the events actually played out in the streets of Egypt through the eyes of those who were there.
Yasmin is currently the co-founder of a technology start-up called GroupStream, a group storytelling platform where people can tell the story of any shared experience with friends or those with them using social media. GroupStream is about bringing together a group’s social media fragments from Twitter and Facebook updates to Flickr photos and Youtube videos.
The presentation is co-sponsored by the Provost Office’s Visiting Artist of Color Grant and the History Department.
If you go—
Who: Yasmin Elayat
What: “How Revolution is Changing Storytelling”
When: Noon Wednesday, April 11
Where: Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition
Admission: Free
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A leading interaction designer and creative technologist who documented the Egyptian Revolution in a unique way — for the Web — is coming to UW-La Crosse. Yasmin Elayat will share how she has re-thought use of technology and how people interface with it and the world around them.
Elayat will speak on “How Revolution is Changing Storytelling” at noon Wednesday, April 11, in Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. Admission is free.
Elayat, an Egyptian-American, has become known for designing and developing interactive installations for physical spaces and interactive storytelling projects for the Web. Originally from California, Yasmin grew up tinkering in interdisciplinary projects, always trying to merge her interests in arts and technology. She holds a bachelor’s in computer science from the American University in Cairo and a master’s from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
As a graduate student at ITP, Elayat combined her technical background with her passion for storytelling to develop a spectrum of interactive and video installations. She built a “Pepper’s Ghost” interactive hologram, interactive toys, an interactive water fountain oracle, games for mobile devices, animation shorts, and video installations. Yasmin exhibited her interactive video installation piece Lost and Found at the ITP Winter Show in 2007.
Wanting to recreate the same magical experience that she enjoyed as a child at museums like the Exploratorium, Yasmin pursued a career in the interactive exhibit space. She is co-creator of “18 Days In Egypt: A Collaborative Documentary Project about the Egyptian Revolution,” which asks the Egyptian community to tell the story of the ?rst 18 days of the revolution using the media they created within those 18 days. The communities’ stories will be presented as an interactive, web-native documentary ?lm experience where users can learn how the events actually played out in the streets of Egypt through the eyes of those who were there.
Yasmin is currently the co-founder of a technology start-up called GroupStream, a group storytelling platform where people can tell the story of any shared experience with friends or those with them using social media. GroupStream is about bringing together a group’s social media fragments from Twitter and Facebook updates to Flickr photos and Youtube videos.
The presentation is co-sponsored by the Provost Office’s Visiting Artist of Color Grant and the History Department.
If you go—
Who: Yasmin Elayat
What: “How Revolution is Changing Storytelling”
When: Noon Wednesday, April 11
Where: Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition
Admission: Free