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The Center for Digital Storytelling is the artistic and administrative home to Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen.
We are a husband and wife team working with a large number of community collaborators, and our mission is to assist people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives, with source material generated from their personal image archives.
In 1994, Life On The Water, a SanFrancisco-based performing arts organization, initiated the San Francisco Digital Media Center. Specifically, the inspiration for the center's development grew out of the collaboration between Joe Lambert and Dana Atchley, arising from Dana's groundbreaking multimedia-performance work, Next Exit. CDS's principal focus has been on Digital Story-telling, although from 1994-1996, it also operated an active community training facility offering classes in a variety of new media technologies. We also operated an ongoing youth program, D*Lab, that helped young people to tell their stories in digital video and the web. In 1999, CDS re-locates to the East Bay, where it will operate as an independent program based at UC Berkeley's School of Education.Beginning in January of 1997, Joe and Nina decided to focus their work on Digital Storytelling and a number of special projects including:
The Catalyst Project, a specialized training program in internet and other new media skills for small and mid-size non-profit arts organizations.
We have had a multi-year partnership with the California Arts Council to create various projects tied to their annual conference. In 1996, we collaborated with artists in London, Tokyo and San Franicisco as part to create a Digital Mural Project, In 1998, we are playing an active role in the development of the California Culture Net, whcih will be launched at the annual Arts and Technology Conference in December.
Storytelling, was published at the end of October 1998.
An ongoing collaboration with the Institute for the Future in a number of areas regarding communications and storytelling within the corporate context. Our report to the Outlook Exchange of the Institute, Digital
We have also assisted with DanceNet, a site dedicated to Bay Area Contemporary Dance.Much of these changes resulted from their increased commitment in assisting the development of the Digital Clubhouse Network, The DCN has created two model community centers, in Silicon Valley, and at the New York Information Technology Center at 55 Broad St in the financial district of Manhattan.
CDS is always available to organizations and individual artists/creatives to propose collaborations and projects. Feel free to contact us at any time.
Joe and Nina
