James Carter Presents NY_HEARTS; Jon Vidar Presents STORIESFROM

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Just four days into launching this immersive NYC experience, director James Carter brings a hot-off-the-presses look at his innovative location-based project NY_Hearts.

Members who are working with or experimenting with telling location-based storytelling, this will be a treat. This latest part of James project is the 2nd installment in a 4 part series, and follows a successful stint on the Lower East Side in the winter.

Part walking tour, part love story, NY_Hearts offers people a new way to discover NYC by stepping into the characters’ shoes. Set in four different NYC neighborhoods, participants enjoy drinks and other surprises from local businesses, which are integrated into an audio story shared over mobile devices

Supporting story extensions of the audio story include: character websites, online character vlogs, original music and visual art. The second part of the tale launches on April 19 in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Visit www.ny-hearts if you'd like to experience it before the forum!

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About James Carter

NY_Hearts creator James Carter is an experience designer playwright and producer. He was a founding member of terraNOVA Collective (http://www.terranovacollective.org/) and its associate artistic director for eight years. He also served as season producer for The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Recent transmedia plays include FEEDER: A Love Story (terraNOVA/HERE, NYC) and NY_Hearts: LES (One Muse Presents & The Brick Game Play Festival).

Follow James on twitter at @jdcarter (https://twitter.com/jdcarter) and on his blog onemuse.com (http://www.onemuse.com/).

StoriesFrom

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Joining us from Los Angeles is creator Jon Vidar who will be presenting StoriesFrom (www.storiesfrom.us (http://www.storiesfrom.us/)), an immersive platform for collaborative storytelling. Based off the original 360 Kurdistan (360.tizianoproject.org (http://360.tizianoproject.org/)) launched in Iraq in 2010, StoriesFrom allows community members and organizations to easily create rich interactives that combine both professional and locally produced content. The original 360 Kurdistan received recognitions from SXSW, The Webbys, the Gracies, and beat out CNN and NPR for the Community Collaboration in the Online Journalism Awards. StoriesFrom was built through a Knight News Challenge grant from the Knight Foundation, cosponsored by Google.

About Jon Vidar

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/1/0/a/event_223365322.jpegJon is the founder and digital strategist of Uncharted Digital (www.uncharteddigital.com (http://www.uncharteddigital.com/)), a boutique interactive agency in Los Angeles focused on social impact storytelling. Jon also has extensive background in the nonprofit sector.
As the Cofounder of The Tiziano Project, which teaches new media journalism in conflict, post-conflict, and underrepresented regions, he is intricately familiar with storytelling, community engagement and the needs of nonprofit organizations.

For five years, Jon also served as the Emerging Technology Specialist for the University of Southern California Libraries, where he received an M.A. in Communication Management and is currently an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate level courses on New Media Journalism.

You can follow Jon on Twitter at @jonkaj (http://www.twitter.com/jonkaj)