STUDY HALL & Columbia DSL: "Haunted House of Machines" @ Lincoln Center 🏚️
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☠︎☠︎☠︎ STAGES A HAUNTED HOUSE ☠︎☠︎☠︎
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𓉸 UPTOWN, @ THE LINCOLN CENTER 𓉸
In partnership with Columbia DSL (Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab) and The Last Human Collective, STUDY HALL is proud to present:
🏚️ AGENTIC HORROR: A HAUNTED HOUSE OF MACHINES 🦾
WHAT IF OUR GHOSTS ARE IN THE MACHINE? 🤖👻
WHAT IF YOUR REFLECTION IS WATCHING YOU? 🤖👻
WHAT IF THE FUNHOUSE MADE OF US, 🤖👻 🤖👻
WASN'T MADE FOR US? 🤖👻 🤖👻🤖👻🤖👻🤖👻🤖
RUN OF SHOW:
7pm | INTRO: What is Columbia DSL? (Lance Weiler, Founding Director)
7:10pm | TALK: How have horror and haunted houses evolved alongside AI, and technology? (Char Simpson)
7:30pm | HAUNTED HOUSE OF MACHINES: An immersive, agentic horror experience with spatial audio and exploration, featuring works by Columbia DSL.
8pm | BREAKOUT DISCUSSION: Share in small groups and room-wide what you've experienced.
8:15pm | HAUNTED HOUSE, 2ND PASS
8:45pm | CLOSING DJ SET by Lance Weiler's son.
SALVAGED BITS FROM A TATTERED PRESS RELEASE:
"...machines that behave like living organisms... networks that blur individual and collective control... authorship slips... the boundary between user and system begins to erode...
...the discomfort of being reflected by something nonhuman... the instability of identity shaped by unseen... never quite the same twice... part talk, part experiment... prototyping as a way of thinking"
NO TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!
BE READY TO BE INFORMED AND TERRIFIED.
CAN'T COME? MARK "CAN'T GO" TO GET ON THE LIST FOR VOL. 8.
TELL FREAKY SCARY FRIENDS❗️👻
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FEATURES
Lance Weiler is a filmmaker and founding director of the Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab. He made his 1998 debut "The Last Broadcast" with $900 and grossed $5M. It was the first film beamed into theaters by satellite, beating George Lucas by a year. He's a Sundance Screenwriting Lab alum, a professor, and according to WIRED, one of 25 people reinventing Hollywood. Ask him how he got his start in the 90s as a camera assistant, or about teaching music to his son.
instagram.com/lanceweiler/
Char Simpson (they/them) is a narrative designer and producer making immersive experiences. They co-created a horror installation where Amazon's Alexa channels the dead (Sundance New Frontier, Tribeca, Cannes). They've worked with Blackout, one of the most extreme haunted houses in America. They're an alum of CalArts, the Sundance Storytelling Lab, and POV Spark Lab, and teach at Columbia and SVA. Ask them about authoring the first "Choose Your Own Adventure" graphic novel.
Columbia DSL (est. 2013) is a next-gen media lab exploring storytelling across forms (Brown Institute Magic Grant, NYT). Previous partners include the National Theatre, Lincoln Center, IDFA DocLab, Sundance, and The Shed.
digitalstorytellinglab.com
The Last Human Collective explores the horror of the "Dead Internet," where algorithms overwhelm our humanity. This includes synthetic media (bots, deepfakes, slop), misinformation, and more. Its 10,000 sq ft immersive experience LAST HUMAN has appeared at the Museum of the Moving Image, The Wrong Biennale, and MAD Arts.
www.lasthuman.xyz
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HOSTS
Charlie Freiberg is a soothsayer-saleswoman in NYC. Her "storytelling" (ex-Cultural Counsel) makes people love and pay you. She can guess your childhood trauma in < 10 minutes. She's behind these cheeky little bios.
instagram.com/charlie-freiberg/
Zak Hap is an engineer and serial startup boy (Liminal Media, Odefi, Commonwealth Labs) based in NYC. Ask him about sacred Japanese music.
Photo: Ludwig Windstosser, "Untitled," ca. 1950–1959. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper.
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