Glorianna Davenport

Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Head of Research

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2002

  Glorianna Davenport, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

  ISEA2002

  Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

  ISEA1997

  Glorianna Davenport, USA, is Principal Research Associate at the MIT Media Lab of which she is a founding member. In 1988, she formed the Interactive Cinema Group to research and prototype digital media experiences in which narration is split among authors, consumers and computer mediators.Trained as a documentary filmmaker, Davenport’s stories focus on reinforcing the human desire to learn with and about each other. Davenport is a recent recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship for excellence in the arts at MIT. Davenport’s work in customizable, person­alizable storyteller systems has resulted in inventions at the interface (micons, video streamer, contextual selec­tion, concept maps, elastic media), innovations in story form (evolving documentary, stories”with a sense themselves,” and transformational environments), and explorations of issues inherent in the collaborative co-con­struction of digital media. Davenport has taught, lectured and published internationally on the subjects of interactive multimedia and story construction.

Last Known Location:

• Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America