The Line Between Storyteller and Audience Is Disappearing

Lance Weiler examines how the line between storyteller and audience is eroding as generative tools challenge the authorship and ownership of stories. As founding director of Columbia University's Digital Storytelling Lab, he pulls back the curtain on two projects experimenting with generative narrative: Where There's Smoke, an immersive work on life, loss, and memory tied to Narrative Medicine, and Blockchain Fairy Tales, a generative storytelling prototype.