Wanna meet Team Exelauno?
Below are our upcoming events. And if you want us to come somewhere not on our schedule – college campuses, co-working spaces, comedy clubs, conferences & more – reach out! We’d love to come visit and show you our stuff.
Ongoing
If you’re interested in learning about immersive storytelling, check out this video series CEO Eve Weston scripted for The Look.Club. And if you’re a student (or potential student) interested in learning about VR narrative and immersive storytelling, she currently teaches at Los Angeles Film School.
If you’re not currently a student at those institutions, you can still learn a lot from her through her book, 10 Kick-Ass Careers for Storytellers: Interviews with Pioneers in Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Podcasts, Escape Rooms, Video Games, Comics, Interactive Television and More!, available on Amazon in eBook and Paperback formats. And you can get a sense of what the chapters might be like by checking out episodes of the Kick-Ass Careers for Storytellers podcast.
The Look Club on Clubhouse is currently on pause. If you’re interested in future live discussions on immersive narrative, please feel free to email Eve with your request.
Upcoming Events
TBA
Past Events
July 2024
Digital Hollywood: The AI Summer Summit – Online (from Los Angeles, CA)
PANEL: The NextGen Hollywood Writers Room and Creator (video available at link)
June 2024
Imagine the Metaverse – Tampere, Finland
KEYNOTE: How We Experience The Metaverse: A Tangible and Tactical Creative Framework
PANEL: How Do New Technologies Enhance the Creation of Future Audiovisual Storytelling?
March 2024
XR Hardware Manufacturer – Silicon Valley, CA
PRIVATE TALK.
February 2024
BBYO International Convention – Orlando, Florida
WORKSHOP: Curtain Call Chronicles: Mastering The Art of Storytelling
with Eve Weston and Michael Nathanson
TALK + WORKSHOP: The Art of Audience-Centric Storytelling
January 2024
AUREA #6 Awards – Rust, Germany
TALK: Gaining Visitors’ Trust: 3 Key Questions & 2 Secret Tools
PODCAST: Eve Weston, Professor of VR Filmmaking: Storytelling is a Force for Positive Change on The World Beyond Podcast with Michael Mack and his Emotioneers of Tomorrow
“Professor Eve Weston is a metaverse expert, storytelling consultant and a genius writer and producer.”
May/June 2023
Augmented World Expo – Silicon Valley
PANEL: GAMIFYING THE WORLD – EVOLVING EXPERIENCES IN MIXED WORLDS
November 2022
Zip-Scene, November 10-12, @Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
TALK: XR Storytelling Methods
November 2022
Infinity Festival Hollywood, November 2-5, @Goya Studios
EXPO BOOTH: This is Your Brain on VR Comedy
October 2022
The Metaverse Spectrum Business Conference & Expo (Virtual Conference), October 25, 2022
6:30am PST/9:30am EST
PANEL: The Future of Marketing & Communications in the Metaverse
October 2022
WebXR Production Summit Virtual Conference, October 13, 2022
PANEL: Planning for WebXR Augmented Reality in the Headset
September 2022
ACES: The Society for Editing Virtual Conference, September 21-22, 2022
TALK: How To Think About Editing Coverage of Immersive, VR and Metaverse Experiences
The arrival and adoption of virtual reality and other immersive technology (XR) is presenting new experiences across verticals. Whatever you edit—entertainment, medicine, cooking, travel—you will soon have cause to edit articles and other writing about XR. However, while we’ve long had language to discuss and analyze books and movies, narrative and visual points of view don’t describe all the experiential options and combinations presented by immersive experiences. This talk introduces vocabulary and presents resources that specifically address what’s possible in VR and the Metaverse and which will facilitate better and clearer discussion, analysis, and communication about immersive experiences.
September 2022
PODCAST: No Proscenium: Bruce Lee ‘Be Water My Friend’/Our Latest VR Gaming Adventures
August 2022
2022 AEJMC, August 3-6, 8/4 12:30-2 p.m. EST
PANEL: VR/AR/MR Research in Communication: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderating/Presiding: Anthony Palomba, Virginia
Panelists:
Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State
Danny Pimentel, Oregon
Lukas Schleuniger, Founder of Red or Blue Labs, Switzerland
Hyunjin Seo, Kansas
Aaron Atkins, Weber State
Eve Weston, Founder of Exelauno, California
June 2022
Augmented World Expo – Silicon Valley
TALK: Once Upon a Blockchain: Stories in the Metaverse
Co-presenter:
Iris Ichisita (Toekenz, Mattel)
AWARD PRESENTATION: 2022 Awesome Award:
April 2022
UCLA Extension, XR Experience Design Course – Professor Jacki Morie, PhD
Guest Lecturer
January 21-22, 2022
AUREA Awards – Germany
Digital Keynote Speaker, “Communicating Experience: From Now to New to Good”
November 9-11, 2021
Augmented World Expo – Silicon Valley
PANEL: Does Medium Matter? Storytelling IRL vs. XR
Panelists:
Kathleen Cohen (DreamWorks, IBM, Disney)
Amy Jupiter (Disney, Virgin Gallactic)
Emily Olman (VR AR Association, Hopscotch Interactive)
Eve Weston (Exelauno, Chapman University)
November 2-4, 2021
Infinity Film Festival – Hollywood
The BizNest featured in Qualcomm’s Women in XR Showcase
May 2021
Workshop performance of The BizNest: Easy Access live, interactive sitcom – on Zoom
Written by Eve Weston, Co-directed by Eve Weston & Jessica Kantor
March 2021
Re-Connect Online Performance Festival – online
Panel: “From Broadway to VRChat: Discussing Immersive VR Theater with the Finding Pandora X Team”
Moderated by Eve Weston
March 2021
Immerse Global Summit Series Virtual Conference, March 10, 2021
Talk: NFTs: A New Frontier for Storytelling
December 2020
Infinity Film Festival – online conference (formerly Hollywood)
Talk: “How To Succeed In XR Content: Language, Critical Conversation & Format”
December 2020
Virtual World Society – Fireside Chat with Tom Furness, AltSpace VR
Panel: “Exploring the Language of VR”
November 20-22, 2020
FullDome Festival – Jena, Germany and Online
Panel: “Global Impact of Immersive Media Council”
September 2020
AR VR Global Summit – online digital conference
Talk: “To Emmy or Not To Emmy”
August 2020
SIGGRAPH “Think Beyond” – virtual conference (formerly Washington DC)
Talk: “Case Study of Award-Winning World’s 1st 360VR Sitcom ‘The BizNest’ & How It Paves The Way For Immersive Storytelling”
Talk available by request.
June 30, 2020, 6:30pm PST
LA SIGGRAPH Panel: The Global Impact and Roles of Immersive Media
June 1-3, 2020
AR VR Global Summit – online digital conference (formerly Lisbon, Portugal)
8:30pm PST on Wednesday, June 3
May 27, 2020 (conference runs 26th-29th)
Augmented World Expo – online digital conference (formerly Silicon Valley)
Panel: The Watchwomen LIVE: Expert XR Narrative Techniques & Analysis
Launch and premiere of The Look Club
March 25, 2020
Book Launch: Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media
January 8-10, 2020
DreamlandXR at CES 2020
Award Ceremony: WINNER of Best Project for Television
Panel: “Content is Queen”
October 29, 2019
Stanford University
Guest Lecturer for “Media Innovation” course
November 14, 2019
Digital Hollywood
Panel: Innovating in VR-AR-Immersive Production
May 7-8, 2019
Miami VR Expo and ArtXRperience
Human/Art/Object was included in this curated show.
May 31-June 2, 2019
Femmebit Festival – Downtown Los Angeles
Human/Art/Object was included in this curated show.
May 29-31, 2019
Augmented World Expo – Silicon Valley
Our CEO moderated Day 1 of the Gaming & Entertainment track and gave the following keynote on Point of View in Virtual Reality:
June 27-28, 2019
Immersive Pedagogy Symposium – Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Julia Troche represented Team Exelauno at the conference.
March 29-30, 2019
Ancient Egypt and New Technology Conference – Indiana University
Eve Weston and Dr. Julia Troche presented a paper on immersive pedagogy. Their talk will be published in a volume of the proceedings as part of the Harvard Egyptological Review.
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