The International Lab/Symposium on Interactive Documentary 22-23 March | Watershed | Bristol
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i-Docs is the first symposium totally dedicated to the interactive documentary genre. Convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Jon Dovey and supported by the Digital Culture Research Centre, University of the West of England.
9.00 Welcome by Sandra and Judith 9.10 9.10 Keynote Speaker 10.00 Jigar Mehta - Digital Entrepreneur, Journalist and Storyteller 10.00 Participation and Authorship 11.15 Max Whitby - UK The role of the Director in Interactive Documentary
Siobhan O’Flynn and Faisal Anwar - University of Toronto, CA +city: a new paradigm in i-Doc creation Tea Break - 15 mins
11.30 Paulina Tervo - Interactive Producer / Filmmaker, UK 13.00 The Awra Amba project
Brian Winston - University of Lincoln, UK Ethics of Participation: what must we film now?
13.00 LUNCH BREAK – 60 min 14.00 14.00 Skype session with Kat Cizek - director of the NFB’s Highrise, CAN 14.30
Keynote: Jigar Mehta
Mehta is a digital entrepreneur, video journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He co-created the crowd-sourced website documentary “18 Days in Egypt,” a collection of stories about the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Mehta is also the co-founder of GroupStream, an online collaborative storytelling platform. Jigar was previously with The New York Times as a video journalist. The in-house unit produced microdocumentaries for the website. Jigar was influential in pushing the boundaries of the form. He regularly teamed up with the multimedia team to produce stories that could only be uniquely told using video and the web and he contributed to multimedia pieces such as the Simmons Flip, which was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for New Approaches.
CINEMA 1
WATERSHED 1&2
14.30 Feedback Session Questioning Participation Lab 15.45 Jigar Mehta - Digital Entrepreneur, Journalist and Storyteller Judith Aston - University of the West of England, UK Modes of participation in i-docs Peter Dukes- University of Westminster, UK Participation in interactive documentary as a simulacrum of social change Mandy Rose- Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, UK Documentary, Open Space, Citizenship “Making Publics”? Colin Thomas (UK) Turning a problem into the solution 15.45 Tea break 16.00 16.00 HonkyLab feed-back session 16.45 Guillaume Urjewicz & Maria Gemayel - Honkylab, FR
Project Feed-back session - Authorship and Polyvocality Laura Aguiar - University of Ulster, NI Unseen Women: Stories from Armagh Gaol Designing software for an interactive digital archive Fotis Begklis - Goldsmiths University, UK The “Boules” of Naousa, a Living Tradition: Constructing knowledge in multimodal ethnographic research Irene Lusztig - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA The Worry Box Project
Keynote: Brett Gaylor
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Brett Gaylor is the Director of Mozilla’s Popcorn project, an open video laboratory researching the intersection of video and the World Wide Web. Before working with Mozilla, Brett directed the award wining documentary Rip! A Remix Manifesto, created Open Source Cinema.org, helped found homelessnation. org, and was a key creative at the Montrealbased production house EyeSteelFilm.
9.00 Keynote 9.10 Brett Gaylor - Mozilla Foundation, CA
WATERSHED 1&2
CINEMA 1 10.00 Live Presentation of projects 11.15 Brett Gaylor - CA Documentary: a new layer for the web
Layered Reality Panel
Duncan Speakman - Belgium Documentary as Pervasive Experience
Guillaume Urjewicz & Maria Gemayel - Klynt, FR 3WDOC - FR - Examples
Martha Ladly - OCAD University, CA Mobile communities at work & play
11.15 Tea break 11.30 11.30 12.45
HTML5 & i-docs Authoring tools confronted Chaired by: Maria Yanez and Eva Dominguez -Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, SP With Brett Gaylor, 3WDOC and HonkyLab
Charlotte Crofts - University of the West of England, UK Curzon Memories Arjan Dhupia - University of Portsmouth, UK
12.45 Lunch 13.45
Keynote: Submarine Channel
Submarine Channel is the world’s premiere destination for original transmedia dramas, documentaries and genre-defying entertainment. The future of storytelling is here. Free Your Screen! From studios in Amsterdam and L.A, Submarine Channel creates fresh content that exploits new technologies to tell stories in visually exciting, multiple formatfriendly ways – including motion comics, online games, web documentaries, and video portraits about pioneering creatives from all over the world. The popular website SubmarineChannel.com streams authored content as well as the best in next-gen cinema by peer creators, attracting a global following of creative professionals across the spectrum.
CINEMA 1 13.45 14.45
Activism Panel
WATERSHED 1 Project Feedback sessions:
WATERSHED 2 Project feedback session:
Kerric Harvey - George Layered Reality Brett Gaylor, CA - Popcorn.js Washington University, USA Play It Again: Fusing Play Rachel Stevens - Hunter College NYC, back Theatre Techniques USA - Oyster City and Interactive Documentary Martin Rieser - De Montfort University, Gail Vanstone and Carolyn UK - Layered Leicester Steele - York University, CA A Stitch in Time: Interactivity and Ethical Activism
14.45 Tea break 15.00 15.00 16.00
Activism Panel (continued)
Project Feed-back sessions: Collaboration
Sharon Daniel - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Nina Simoes - New Media Artist, UK Fragments of Parenthood The aesthetics of politics: affects, objects, and dissensus in new media documentary Brenda Longfellow - York University, CA ElĂŠonore Lamothe - London Offshore: An Interactive Web Documentary in Process Quest Company, UK A Tale of Two Johns Jackie Calderwood - De Montfort University, UK Living Voices, bringing the landscape to life
Taxonomies Lab Arnau Gifreu - Universitat de Vic, ES The emergence of interactive documentary as a new media genre. Towards a taxonomy model. Stefano Odorico - University of Cork, IRE A taxonomic approach for a new definition of authorship in i-Docs Stefania Bercu - NL Dialogical Platforms: Autopoiesis and Collaboration in Web Documentaries
Richard Edkins - UK In between objectivity and subjectivity: Ethical dilemmas and interactive documentary for social activism Alison Kahn - Oxford Brookes, UK Our Heritage - Our Memories - Our Lives 16.00 Keynote 17.00 Submarine Channel (NL) : Lessons learned from the trans-media project Collapsus
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