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Video, podcast, and summary: “Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of...
About the Talk Documentary and journalism have a complicated relationship. They share commitments to reality-based storytelling, yet have distinctive legacies and institutional histories. They share...
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Build Non-Linear Narrative Writing Tools
David Dufresne, Open Doc Lab Fellow Jan/14 Wed 10:00AM-05:00PM E15-335 Jan/15 Thu 10:00AM-05:00PM E15-335, (continuation of Day 1, optional) Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required Attendance:...
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The Week at @cmsw_mit, 3/16/15: SXSW
Featuring two big events and a Storify recap of last week’s Twitter chat at SXSW with four CMS alums and the MIT Alumni Association. The Art, Ethics and Technology of Documentary Co-Creation March 18 @...
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With the Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology: Katerina Cizek, Documentary Director, National Film Board of Canada, and MIT Visiting Artist Andrew Lowenthal, Open...
View ArticleSandra Gaudenzi: “From Interaction to Personalization: What Happens When We...
It took about 15 years to accept that the documentaries of the 21st century might be “interactive”. Moving from a linear media to a non linear one has challenged the role of the author in the creative...
View ArticleSandra Gaudenzi: “Digital Me Demo & Feedback Session”
Imagine if the digital persona you have been creating all these years while socialising online wanted to speak to you. What could you discover about each other? Digital Me, an interactive documentary,...
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The Production Process of “Do Not Track”
Originally published in Docubase. Do Not Track is an interactive web documentary series about internet privacy directed by Brett Gaylor and co-produced by Upian, NFB, Arte, and BR. In the project...
View ArticleEvaluating Interactive Documentaries: Audience, Impact and Innovation in...
Public interest media organizations are increasingly interested in experimenting with interactive and participatory approaches to documentary storytelling enabled by digital technologies. However, due...
View ArticlePodcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
“In this case [of virtual reality], we do have a technology, but we don’t have any clear idea how to fill it with content.” – Werner Herzog When Time Magazine graced its cover with Oculus Rift inventor...
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Recorded at “Virtually There”, a conference and exhibition presented by MIT Open Documentary Lab, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Phi Centre. +++++++++++ The goal of this...
View ArticleFilm director Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove at Leipzig Festival
Director, CMS/W lecturer, and Open Documentary Lab fellow Thorsten Trimpop has been announced as the winner of a Golden Dove grand prize at the Leipzig Festival, one most prestigious awards in the...
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The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary
Glorianna Davenport, co-founder and current visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab At its heart, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one...
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At its heart, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one hand by the creativity and interests of the media maker and on the other by...
View ArticleRe-Enchanting Spaces: Location-based Media, Participatory Documentary, and...
Location-based media have always played a key role in defining both spaces and publics. Due to the proliferation of sophisticated locative technologies, location-based media are increasingly ubiquitous...
View ArticleMaking Documentary: Videos from 2018 science writing graduate students
Each spring, the students in our graduate program in science writing take part in 21W.752 “Making Documentary: Audio, Video, and More”. In it, they collaborate to produce short non-linear...
View ArticlePodcast, Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
Thomas Allen Harris is a critically acclaimed, interdisciplinary artist who explores conceptions of family, identity, environmentalism, and spirituality in a participatory practice. Graduate of...
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Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
Daniel Bacchieri – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero Daniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator, whose visually inspiring...
View ArticleVideo and podcast: Daniel Bacchieri, in the Civic Arts Series
Daniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator, whose visually inspiring StreetMusicMap platform has been widely praised for...
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Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
“Protecting the Water in Solidarity and Unity” Myron Dewey – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero Myron Dewey is an indigenous journalist, educator, documentary filmmaker and the developer of Digital Smoke...
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