Book cover titled 'Voices of Saratoga: Conversations Across Time' featuring a painting of a 19th-century street scene with historic brick buildings, horse-drawn carriages, and well-dressed pedestrians.

Spatial Storytelling

A Collaboration in

To Seize Creative Opportunities Made Possible by New Technologies

To Equip Young People with Advanced Skills in Writing with AI and GPS

To Support Heritage Tourism in
Saratoga County

An Invitation from Saratoga AI

APRIL 2026

We’re building ten self-guided audio tours in the premiere
app for triggering stories on phones with GPS markers

The word 'story' written in bold, blue letters with a speech bubble shape around the '&' symbol.
A person holding a smartphone displaying a tourism app with various virtual tour options in Warren County, including the First Wilderness Audio Tour, a North Creek walking tour, and a Historian's Challenge.

Voices of Saratoga will be a companion to Explore Warren County, the app in which Saratoga AI has developed four tours with the Warren County Planning Department.

Now we’re bringing our advanced techniques in spatial storytelling to Saratoga, proposing a collaboration with STQRY, MDOCS and the Skidmore College Career Development Center to create the Skidmore College Spatial Storytelling Team.

We have three openings for Spatial Storytellers to produce these three self-guided audio tours this summer:

Illustration depicting 1926 with scenes of Prohibition-era violence, a speakeasy, a vintage car, a roulette table, and characters in period clothing.
A farm with a red barn and a tall silo during sunset, framed with vintage decorative borders.
Illustration of a historic train station with a steam locomotive, a group of workers repairing tracks, and a man in period clothing in front of the station, set in a wooded landscape at sunset.

Lake Luzerne is Our Model

Voices of Lake Luzerne features 12 of Lake Luzerne’s most notable figures voiced as only AI can imagine them.

To be introduced Saturday, January 24
at the Annual Meeting of the
Warren County Historical Society

We acknowledge this invaluable contribution by Lester St. John Thomas, published in 1979:

Cover of a book titled 'Timber Tannery and Tourists Lake Luzerne and Hadley, N.Y.', published in 1979, with photos of log loading and leather works.
Cover art for 'Voices of Lake Luzerne,' an audio tour of the Lake Luzerne Historic District, featuring a tall brick chimney or tower surrounded by autumn trees under a partly cloudy sky.
Screenshot of a digital research notebook titled 'Voices of Lake Luzerne,' containing sources, notes, and various sections related to the history and cultural heritage of Lake Luzerne, with a focus on historical figures, local landmarks, and the evolution of the town.

Here’s the recipe we’ve developed for writing and voicing true-to-life first-person narratives with AI

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Now We Want to
Teaching Our Technique to
Skidmore Students

Illustration of satellite communication for spatial storytelling using AI and GPS, depicting two smartphones and a laptop displaying maps with location markers, satellites orbiting above, and a cityscape at dusk.

Free to Skidmore students interested in
building tours forVoices of Saratoga

We propose to host classes in Zoom on
Wednesday and Thursday, May 27 and 28, but will scheduled whenever the Career Development Center is most advantageous.

Students will be paid $15 per hour up to a maximum of 60 hours and $1000 for their work.