New Media.
Intersections between tech and media.
The Boat, based on The Boat, written by Nam Le, adapted by Matt Huynh
The Boat approaches a story we’ve heard before in a way that both refrains from fetishising human suffering, and narrates it in a meaningful and unique way. A large part of this comes down to its craft: the writing, the music, the illustrations. But a large part of it also comes to its choice of medium – interactive multimedia storytelling.
Lo-Fi Player explorations
This a browser-based virtual room in which you can generate instrumental lo-fi hip-hop tracks that’s powered by machine learning models from magenta.js. A room loads with multiple items in it: a guitar, a keyboard, a bass guitar, a TV, a radio, view outside, etc. You tinker with each of these to either change the way the room looks or the music that’s being played.
Ramblings on a medialess future
Each generation sees itself at a media crossroads. I was part of the first generation of Indians that had free access to a liberalised television media landscape. The next will be the first generation that is not only at a media crossroads but also at the cusp of seeing boundaries between media dissolve.