Podcasts about zeega

Ahmed Kabil—writer, speaker, multimedia storyteller—joins us to have a discussion about both long-term thinking (he's a writer for The Long Now Foundation) while being in the moment. This conversation was recorded on April 4th. Ahmed's background is in digital media, journalism, and the humanities. Currently, he is an Editor at The Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years; and writes about counterculture, technology and mysticism. As a multimedia storyteller, Ahmed helped launch three award-winning digital media apps and platforms: Zeega, GoPop (acquired by BuzzFeed), and Timeline. He has pioneered new forms of social and news storytelling that have since become ubiquitous on the web. At Timeline, he founded a video team that achieved 100+ million video views. His multimedia storytelling work has been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tribeca Film Institute. Ahmed has spoken about interactive storytelling, technology, and counterculture at Harvard, MIT, UC-Berkeley, the Poynter Institute, ZebraCon, Makers of Barcelona, and more. His written work has appeared in the Museum of Old and New Art's book Eat The Problem, The Integral Review, OneZero, Gen, Level, and Timeline; and his projects have been noted in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and more. He was a Fellow at metaLAB (at) Harvard, and is an alum of Reed College. Music is Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba copyright © 2011. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza.

The party enters the wrestling ring. Angelica is worried about her sword. Hugo grabs a drum. Bob rubs himself in oil. Vistra fights dirty.   | NPCs Names: Boss Wheedlin, Zeega, Plox, Stink, the Masked Maven, Herod “the Hero” Strongback |

The party speak with Bramblebeard the Druid. Nyx is rude to some prisoners. Bob is confused about how powerful the druid is. Hugo hits the wishbone. Angelica wants to break another sword.   | NPCs Names: Bramblebeard the Druid, Wheedlin, Big Rhonda, Feelie Downbough, Wendyl, Angharad and Gallebrand the Duck, Zeega, Plox |

Kara Oehler is a radio documentary maker, media artist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of GoPop. GoPop--an app that allows users to communicate with GIFs, photos and videos--was recently acquired by BuzzFeed. Her Peabody award-winning radio work has aired on shows like RadioLab, Marketplace and Morning Edition and her interactive storytelling projects have been exhibited at MoMA and SFMoMA. She is also the co-founder of the interactive platform Zeega, the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, metaLAB at Harvard, and Mapping Main Street. Previously, Kara was a Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Rockefeller Fellow with United States Artists. We talked with her about her early influences, growing up in the woods of Indiana, living out of her car to document America, and being a female in the tech and startup world. SHE DOES PODCAST, hosted by Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg, is a bi-weekly showcase of creative women making their mark in media. Going beyond their current career status, we explore each woman’s past to understand how their personality, background and philosophy informs their work. Female writers, producers, directors, technologists, designers, cinematographers, musicians and journalists share their knowledge and personal stories.

Zeega is a new platform for organizing media from around the Internet to create interactive stories about anything in the world. From crazy cats to remixed popular film clips, Zeega enables users to practice craft of storytelling in a new, dynamic, digital way. In the latest episode of Art School, Zeega's creators demonstrate how create your own Zeega using GIFs from the Internet, original content, music and text.

The Kitchen Sisters and Zeega explain their new partnership. Check here for more info about their "The Making Of..." project: http://blogs.kqed.org/makingof/2013/01/18/make-your-own-zeega/ This event was hosted by SoundCloud on Thursday, January 17th, 2013.

The urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place. The genre emerges in the early 20th century, and can be read as symptomatic of panoramic perception, sensory estrangement and networked participation, cultural utopias which respond to modernity’s underlying paradoxes. As such, the invention of the computer did not give rise to the urban database documentary, it only enabled new forms of its realization. The hope is to shift the conversation from a fetishization of ever-­new technological possibilities to a discussion of the underlying cultural aims/assumptions of media art practice and the specific forms through which works address modernity’s cultural tensions. Jesse Shapins is a media theorist, documentary artist, and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, PRAXIS and Wired, cited in books such as The Sentient City and Networked Locality, and been exhibited at MoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues. He is Co-Founder/Chief Strategy Architect of Zeega, Co-Founder/Associate Director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, and on the faculty of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has invented courses such as The Mixed-Reality City and Media Archaeology of Place.