Creative Narrative Workshop 2024

An interdisciplinary gathering of researchers and practitioners to explore the intersection of narrative research, creative toolmaking, and game narrative, with a focus on text.

This workshop was held on December 7, 2024 in Copenhagen, in person only, thanks to the Pioneer Centre for AI @ University of Copenhagen. Some presenters did not provide public slides given the in-progress nature of their presentations.

Speakers

Lynn Cherny (co-organizer)

Independent Researcher/Consultant

Motivating intersection of research and practice, plus my own text toy making.

slides still being updated with refs

Maria Antoniak (co-organizer)

Pioneer Centre for AI @ University of Copenhagen, incoming Asst Prof @ CU Boulder CS, Previously Ai2, Cornell, Twitter, Microsoft.

her site

Kate Compton

GalaxyKate

Creative Toolmaking: Girders, Gum, and Gargoyles

slides

Martin Pichlmair & Charlene Putney

Assoc Prof, IT University of Copenhagen & Games Writer, both co-founders of NEON AURELIUS

Exploratory Writing: A series of experiments with words, tech, and wonder

slides

Anna Rogers

Assoc Prof, IT University of Copenhagen

NarrativeTime: Dense Temporal Annotation on a Timeline

paper she discussed

Alex Calderwood

PhD Student/game designer, UCSC Expressive Intelligence Lab

Phraselette: Creative Writing with Constraints and Phrase Wells

his site (slides not public)

Kent Chang

PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley

Exploring cultural representation and social interactions in fictional narratives

slides

Alexander Tange

Creative Director at Foolhardy Horizons

Too many cooks can be a good thing: Co designing storyworlds to imagine more inclusive, resilient and tasty game worlds

Jenny Fu

PhD candidate, Cornell University

Navigating Professional Identities: Exploring the Impact of AI-Mediated Writing on Locus of Control

slides (public poster form)

Emilie Sitter

Collaborative Research Center on “Linguistic Creativity in Communication,” Bielefeld University.

Towards Operationalizing Linguistic Creativity in Literary and Non-literary Text

slides

Shalev Moran

Independent Artist

Speculative Tourism

slides

Bryan Yazell

Assoc Prof, Dept of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark

Addressing Climate Anxiety Using Flash Fiction in the Classroom

slides

Topics of Interest

We invite presentations aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, perhaps angled as position papers or "takeaways", on any of the following topics:

Logistics

Date and Time

Saturday, December 7, 2024

10:00 AM - 5 PM

Venue

Pioneer Center for AI, University of Copenhagen

Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 København, Copenhagen, Denmark

Submit Proposal / Participation Interest

At capacity.