Research Supervisor / Executive Producer
Natalia Tsarkova, Michael Massey, Katrin Silberberg
Begun as a collaborative project by members of the 1995 "Workshop
in Elastic Movie Time."
Boston's multi-billion dollar "Big Dig" project provides an ample
subject for this ongoing, long-term "evolving documentary." The
story, which evolves as sequences are added to the database,
examines the process and progress of urban change in downtown
Boston as it endures the largest public works project currently
underway in the United States.
The crux of this multi-billion dollar project is the removal of the
"Central Artery," -- a massive elevated highway extension built
through the downtown area in the 1950's -- and its simultaneous
reeplacment by a massive underground tunnel. Slated for completion
in 2002, the project will add many developable acres to Boston's
crowded, historically significant downtown; meanwhile, the
construction process and the diversion of traffic is taking its toll on
several downtown neighborhoods.
"Boston: Renewed Vistas" was created with the ConTour continuity engine by Michael Murtaugh.
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Principal Journalists
The Automatist Storytelling System
MIT MS Thesis.
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ConText: Towards the Evolving Documentary
ACM Multimedia '95, November 1995.
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Movies of the Future: Storytelling with Computers
American Cinematographer, April, cover, pp 4-12.