Recent News

Current News and Events

• The Safety Show – A Performance that Blends Virtual and Augmented Reality with Theater

  

  February 27, 2019

  Last week the Georgia Tech’s DramaTech Theatre performed The Safety Show which was a collaborative effort between the Office of the Arts and TSRB’s Augmented Environments Lab.

• Adriana Alvaro Garcia selected as UN Data Fellow

  

  February 25, 2019

  Adriana Alvaro Garcia, PhD student at the Digital Media program, was recently selected as a Data Fellow by the United Nation.

• Doctoral Student Adriana Alvarado Garcia Selected as UN Global Data Fellow

  

  February 18, 2019

  Adriana Alvarado Garcia, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication’s (LMC) Digital Media program, recently attended the inaugural workshop of the United Nations (UN) Global Pulse Data Fellows initiative. LMC is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. 

• LMC Professor Lisa Yaszek Featured on Vice News Science Fiction Miniseries

  

  January 10, 2019

  LMC Professor Lisa Yaszek is a featured guest expert on the Vice News miniseries, “How Sci Fi Has Changed Your Life, Even If You Don’t Realize It.”

• Film by DM Alumna Ayoka Chenzira Selected for National Film Registry

  

  December 19, 2018

  A film by Ayoka “Ayo” Chenzira, an alumna of the Literature, Media, and Communication PhD program in Digital Media (2014) has been placed on the National Film Registry. Chenzira’s Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People was selected along with 24 other films for 2018, including Orson Welles The Lady from Shanghai and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. The Registry “showcases the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.”

   

• ACM Interactions “How Was it Made” Feature

  

  November 28, 2018

  Ph.D. student Anna Weisling featured in December 2018 ACM Interactions Magazine

• Smart Cities project highlighted on local news

  September 12, 2018

  ​​​​​​​Associate Professor Le Dantec was interviewed for a WSB-Atlanta story on how researchers at Georgia Tech are leading efforts to make cities and communities around Georgia Smarter.

• Magerko Named Director of Georgia Tech Graduate Studies in Digital Media

  

  August 28, 2018

  Brian Magerko, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), has been named director of the School’s influential Graduate Program in Digital Media (DGS). The program encompasses master’s and Ph.D. studies, nine labs and research groups, and research strengths in civic media and digital expression.

• Why We Love Han Solo

  

  May 22, 2018

  The rogue space jock was born in science fiction long before Harrison Ford grabbed a blaster and met Luke Skywalker. Science fiction expert Lisa Yaszek explains his appeal and the history of one of science fiction’s oldest archetypes.

• ART+TECH Festival in San Francisco

  May 3, 2018

  Improvisational dance AI installation accepted to international arts festival

• LMC Professor Lisa Yaszek Featured in James Cameron’s Stoey of Science Fiction

  April 27, 2018

  LMC Professor Lisa Yaszek will be a featured expert in director James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, a six part miniseries that debuts on AMC at 10 pm EST on Monday, April 30, 2018.

• Is the Cathedral a Time Machine?

  April 23, 2018

  LMC’s Richard Utz answers the question why so many modern visitors of medieval cathedrals think these magnificent buildings have the power of time travel.

• LMC professor Lisa Yaszek Speaks about Science Fiction Film in USA Today

  

  February 21, 2018

  Professor Lisa Yaszek was recently interviewed by USA Today about the recent renaissance in smart, original science fiction films that are critically acclaimed, but do not perform as well at the box office as blockbusters such as Star Wars.

• Jessica Anderson collaborates with Spelman students to create Safer, a mobile app designed to encourage good Samaritan engagement in preventing sexual violence

  February 8, 2018

  Safer is a mobile app that gives people a way to ask for low-stakes help in potentially dangerous social situations. It also motivates us to act on our good intentions in our local communities.

• Lisa Yaszek featured in BookTrib.com article about the “new golden age of science fiction”

  

  February 6, 2018

  LMC professor Lisa Yaszek is featured in a BookTrib.com article about the current boom in science fiction television programming.

• “Taking on Serious Topics in Children’s Entertainment Games” published in ACM Computers in Entertainment

  

  January 25, 2018

  During a three-week course on game design at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Erasmus students from eight different European countries addressed themselves to playing, talking about, and designing games for children. The theme of social responsibility pushed them to think about their own cultural and social backgrounds and consider how issues that exist currently in their lives can be brought to younger children in understandable ways.

• LMC Professor Lisa Yaszek featured in Food and Wine Magazine article about spice and science fiction

  

  December 29, 2017

  LMC professor Lisa Yaszek is featured in a recent article from Food and Wine Magazine about the role of spice in science fiction (http://www.foodandwine.com/news/spice-science-fiction).

• Creating the Next Code Composers

  

  November 1, 2017

  Teaching computer science to high school students requires creativity. A musical app called EarSketch proves to be the ideal learning instrument.

• Winners of 2017 GVU Student Awards Competition Announced

  October 17, 2017

  Tom Jenkins and Morgan Orangi are recipients of this year’s GVU Foley Scholarship awards

• LuminAI at ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival

  

  October 12, 2017

  The Georgia Institute of Technology is participating in the first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival on Oct. 13-15, 2017 at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.