Glorianna Davenport
Glorianna Davenport (US) directs MIT's Interactive Cinema research group.
Glorianna Davenport is a founding member of the MIT Media Lab where she directs the Interactive Cinema group. Trained as a documentary filmmaker and sculptor, Davenport has achieved international recognition for her work in new media forms. Her research explores fundamental issues related to collaborative co-construction of digital media experiences, where the task of narration is shared among authors, consumers, and computer mediators. Davenport's work combines rich narrative content with customizable, personalisable storyteller systems which dynamically serve and adapt to a widely dispersed society of audience. She has taught, lectured and published internationally on subjects of interactive media and story construction and serves as a consultant to technology and content companies. She is recipient of MIT's prestigious Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Award for excellence in the Arts. She is a co-founder of the Media Lab Europe in Dublin.
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bio: 1998




