Tell me about it: Craft your Life Story with AI Tools
– Gray Area Festival Workshop
Telling one’s own story is a powerful tool to share their unique perspective on their culture, highlight the difference, or distill the common beliefs. It is also an introspective activity to understand oneself, boost confidence, and overcome trauma.
In this workshop, you will be given tools to help uncover and structure a story of your own. You will also be playing with AI powered visual storytelling tools to document and share your stories in a visually compelling way.
This workshop is part of the Gray Area Festival 2023: Plural Prototypes and the C/Change Initiative.
Marking Gray Area’s 15th anniversary, this year’s Gray Area Festival highlights in-progress cultural experiments from our Creative Research and Development Labs, Cultural Incubator, and Education programs in collaboration with community and industry partners.
C/Change is a joint initiative by Goethe-Institut San Francisco and Gray Area, exploring ways emerging technologies can shape and support digital cultural exchange.
Course Logistics
Dates
Sunday October 22, 2023
Location
Gray Area
2665 Mission Street
San Francisco
Time
2pm – 4pm
Cost
$10 for a 2hr hands-on workshop
We also offer Diversity Scholarships, find out more and apply here.
Experience level: Beginner
Course Requirements:
No prerequisites or prior knowledge is necessary. Bring your laptop with a modern web browser and wifi connection.
Course Outline
- Introductions
- Find the Story in You
- Develop individual storylines
- Build the visuals with AI tools
- Story time!
Education Goals
We hail from diverse backgrounds. Despite our differences, the emotions within our stories are universally shared. Utilizing our web-based AI storytelling tool, we aid individuals in discovering their unique stories and sharing their experiences with the workshop and beyond.
Technologies
We use a custom built web-based storytelling tool. No prior experience is needed.
About the Project
Dragon’s Delusion
We are building an AI tool to create a sequel to the Asian Futurism animation, Dragon’s Delusion. AI represents a collective state of cognition of our consciousness and memory, yet its behavior surprises us. Many probabilities co-exist in AI’s perception of the world. What could that mean in narrative? What if an animation is a living breathing organism of many contributors? What if instead of one central narrative dictating the story, many responses coexist, leaving it to the viewer to reflect, contribute, and select? These meditations require a new kind of storytelling tool. Our goal is to build this tool and make it publicly accessible to a broad audience, so individuals can tell their own stories, culture, and humaneness.
