Invited Speaker - Monthly ARDIN Online Social
On September 30th we will be hosting our first ever ARDIN social and grad student meet-up!
Time: 1 pm to 3 pm EST | 7 pm to 9 pm CET
Agenda:
ARDIN Social: Discussion of news relevant to the community, 1 invited speaker (Josh Fisher), member's announcements, academic speed-dating session.
Grad Student Meet-Up: A roundtable discussion of what our community's graduate students are working on, 1 invited speaker (Maria Reyes). Graduate students, come ready to briefly pitch the projects you're working on!
About the Speakers:
Josh Fisher: I work with emerging media forms to facilitate social change. My specific focus is on community storytelling and I collaborate with community leaders, artists, educators, writers, and students on stories of communal significance. For example, I developed an augmented reality storytelling platform for Georgia Tech. Then, as part of my research, assessed the impact of the platform through both qualitative and quantitative methods. Over the years, I have become an established public speaker and storyteller with performances, lectures, and talks on digital publishing, interactive narratives, and augmented reality design. I have had the pleasure of teaching courses on visual design, interactive storytelling, communication and culture, mobile and web design.
Maria Reyes is a Colombian researcher and screenwriter based in Italy and working as a researcher at the Institute of Educational Technologies at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ITD). She holds a double PhD degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Genoa (Italy) and in Communication Sciences from Universidad del Norte (Colombia). Her research focuses on interactive digital narratives, immersive technologies and distance learning processes.
During her career, Dr. Reyes - known to her friends as Xeh - has worked as lecturer in digital storytelling and cinema; as a screenwriter and editor for cinema; as a creator of interactive VR projects; and as a radio producer at the Latin American Association of Educational Radio (ALER). She is researcher-in-residence 2020-2021 at Schloss Solitude Akademie. Co-curator of ICIDS 2020 Art Exhibition.