Ziv Schneider

Creative Technologist

Ziv Schneider is an artist and designer working with emerging technologies in non-fiction storytelling. Her work explores the affordances of new technologies such as 3D reconstruction, volumetric photography, VR, AR and machine learning. Ziv holds a B.Des in Visual Communication and an M.P.S from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU (ITP), where she is also an adjunct professor and a former research fellow.

Participating Sessions

AUGMENTED REALITY AND THE NEW FRONTIERS OF JOURNALISM

Technology is creating new forms of experiencing stories with the power to change how we see and understand news. Through experiments in augmented reality, people can view a place or a story superimposed with layers of historical context, immerse themselves in an environment or situation, or graft a faraway scene onto their own living rooms. Is this the future of journalism or a byway, and what are the implications of...