- Glorianna Davenport
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name = Glorianna Davenport
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residence =Boston, Massachusetts
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nationality = American
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field = Interactive Cinema
work_institution =Massachusetts Institute of Technology
alma_mater =Mount Holyoke College
doctoral_students = Barbara Barry, Kevin Brooks, Tinsley Galyan, Aisling Kelliher, Hyun-Yeul Lee, Alexandra Mazalek, Paul Nemirovsky, Pengkai Pan
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footnotes =Glorianna Davenport is a filmmaker and researcher in the field of Interactive Cinema. She is the head of the Media Fabrics Group at the
MIT Media Lab .Biography
A graduate of
Mount Holyoke College in 1966, Davenport studied documentary filmmaking with cinema verite pioneerRichard Leacock .Coming to the
MIT Media Lab initially as Leacock's assistant and later as faculty, Davenport began to research the combination of video and computers. Davenport writes:"As cinema frees itself from the constraints of the inherently linear celluloid base, a new meta-cinema explodes the myth of the heroic by projecting itself into our everyday environments. The creation and sharing of cinema can happen anywhere, any time. As an improvisational learning partner, meta-cinema invites us to articulate new hypotheses, to sensorially augment our dialogs, to share multi-point of view stories, and to engage in sociable interchange between all people." [ [http://ic.media.mit.edu/people/gid/research.html glorianna davenport ] ]Projects
Davenport's MIT Class "Workshop on Elastic Movie Time" produced a number of early interactive cinema works. In 1989, the class created "The Elastic Charles," an interactive portrait of the
Charles River . The Elastic Charles used a map of the river to structure the interactive story, and placed video clips at locations along its banks. One memorable video clip was an interview with a worker at the Charles River Locks who happened to be named Charlie. The Elastic Charles was an early exploration of how video and computers together can create a new narrative and documentary medium.In Wheel of Life, Davenport collaborated with Stanford Professor Larry Friedlander on a large-scale computer-enhanced theater space and narrative piece, which has become a model for augmented interactive spaces.
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External links
* [http://mf.media.mit.edu/gid/pubs.php Publication List]
* [http://wwww.gloriannadavenport.com Glorianna Davenport's website]
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