Lance Weiler is a renowned innovator of storytelling forms, with his projects often blending technology and live events and blurring fiction and nonfiction worlds. Founder of Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab, Weiler’s work over the years has featured stories that are dispersed across multiple platforms and often told with global participation on a massive scale. Regardless of the number of narrative threads at work, the technology deployed, or the size of the audience engaged, Weiler’s work is notable for its evocative storytelling and personalized experience. Clarity of concept or theme is one glue that seals the diverse elements together in his projects, as well as a skillful use of objects, both physical and virtual, that connect the audience to the story, to each other, and to the world of making and reflection.
In April 2019, Weiler’s Where There’s Smoke premiered as a physical installation at the...
University of California Press