Biography
Keywords
Media Production, Emergent Media Storytelling, Interactive Video, Postproduction, Producing for Narrative
Laura Zaylea is a media artist and educator with a specific interest in storytelling innovation through video production and emergent media technologies. Her creative work includes an independent feature film, several narrative and experimental shorts, and new media projects including 360° video, web-based multimedia, and locative media / media installation.
Her creative work is regularly exhibited nationally at the University Film and Video Association New Media Gallery (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012), and internationally at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (2019, 2018, 2013, 2012). Her work has also been featured at the Digital Queers Conference (New York, NY) and the &Now Festival of New Writing (San Diego, CA); at galleries such as Nouspace (Vancouver, WA), Aggregate Space (San Francisco, CA) and the Digital Arts & Entertainment Laboratory (Atlanta, GA); at screening venues such as the Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA); and at film festivals such as the Halifax International Film Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Frameline International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA), Northampton Film Festival (Northampton, MA), and the Toronto Urban Film Festival (Toronto, Canada).
Zaylea’s recent creative work uses new media technologies to foster audience engagement with fictional and nonfictional stories in unexpected ways. This includes fictional work in which viewers ‘enter’ the story (Speak2MeInCode, 2013), ‘change’ the story (Closer Than Rust, 2015) and ‘play’ the story (Free Swim, 2016). She is currently working on a web-based interactive documentary about LGBTQ families, supported by the Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts Research Program.
Prof. Zaylea’s teaching practice at Temple includes both traditional and emergent media production courses, at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Education
Degrees earned | Field | School | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
MFA | Film | San Francisco Art Institute | ||
BA | Art-Semiotics | Brown University |
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
MSP 3701 | Dynamic and Interactive Storytelling with Video | Undergraduate |
MSP 3701 | Video for Social Media | Undergraduate |
MSP 3701 | Genre Focus: Dynamic and Interactive Video | Undergraduate |
MSP 4541 | Mobile Media | Undergraduate |
MSP 4701 | Producing and Directing | Undergraduate |
MSP 4741 | Emergent Media Production | Undergraduate |
EPSY 8960 | Seminar Series: Problems in Educational Psychology | Graduate |
MSP 5310 | "Interactive Video Storytelling" | Graduate |
MSP 5547 | MA Project Workshop | Graduate |
MSP 5701 | Producing and Directing | Graduate |
MSP 8741 | Emergent Media Production | Graduate |
Personal Website
Teaching Presentations
Fine, M., and Zaylea, L. (2019, January). Presenter. Technology is Opportunity: Exhibiting Student Work Beyond the Classroom. Temple University’s Annual Conference on Teaching Excellence. Philadelphia, PA.
Lombard, M. and Zaylea, L. (2018, July). Presenter. Cinematic Language, Presence & 360° Storytelling. University Film and Video Association Conference. Las Cruces, NM.
Grayburn, J. and Zaylea, L. (2018, May). Presenter. Teaching Immersive Video Storytelling: Tips for Getting Started. Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Bryn Mawr, PA.
De Voe, K., and Zaylea, L. (2018, April). Presenter. But where’s the ‘Readings’ module? Re-thinking course materials for active engagement. CanvasFest (formerly called Temple University’s Teaching with Technology Symposium). Philadelphia, PA
Zaylea, L., Kuetemeyer, M., Shetty, A. (2017, November). Presenter. The Potential for Place-Based Storytelling: Teaching Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Internationally. Global Temple Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Zaylea, L. (2017, August). Presenter. Choices on Screen: Designing Interactive Narratives. University Film and Video Association Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
Sniad, T., Harris, K. and Zaylea, L. (2017, May). Presenter. Our Favorites! Tech Tools for Engagement In and Beyond the Classroom. Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Bryn Mawr, PA.
Harris, K., and Zaylea, L. (2017, March). Presenter. Using Classroom Engagement Technology: TopHat and Nearpod. Temple University’s Teaching with Technology Symposium. Philadelphia, PA.
Kuetemeyer, K., Shetty, A., Zaylea, J., and Zaylea, L. (2016, August). Presenter. Going Emergent: Teaching Interactive Storytelling and Augmented Reality (panel and workshop). University Film and Video Association Conference. Las Vegas, NV.
Zaylea, L. (2016, April). Presenter. Teaching Emergent Video Platforms: Acclaim, Aurasma & Interlude. Temple University’s Teaching with Technology Symposium. Philadelphia, PA.
Benzon, P., Shaw, A., and Zaylea, L. (2014, March). Presenter. To Tweet or Not To Tweet: #BestPractices and #Pitfalls2Avoid. Temple University’s Teaching with Technology Symposium. Philadelphia, PA.
Awards
TU Innovative Teaching with Technology Award / Teaching / 2017
TU Innovative Teaching with Makerspace Technology Grant / Teaching / 2017
Klein College Junior Faculty Teaching Award / Teaching / 2017
University Film and Video Association, Best New Media, 2nd place / Creative work / 2016
TU Presidential Humanities and Art Research Program Grant / Creative work / 2015
University Film and Video Association, Best Short Script, 2nd place / Creative work / 2013
Atlanta International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition / Creative work / 2012