i-Docs : An International Symposium on Interactive Documentary
An international symposium on interactive documentary
Friday 25th March 2011 at the Watershed Media Centre - Bristol, UK
i-Docs is the first international lab/symposium dedicated solely to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary - a day-long event to showcase recent projects and discuss the artistic, economic and political implications of new forms of factual representation.
In a lively and challenging programme, panel sessions will run parallel to case study presentations and examples of new work. Some of the most active and creative interactive documentary experts from acoss mainland Europe, North America, Canada and the UK - brought together for an entire day of viewing and discussion.
Topics include:
- New forms of participation/co-creation/collaboration for interactive documentary - How do we deal with user partipation?
- Cross-platform and trans-media projects - What are commissioning editors expecting from a cross-media documentary?
- Using locative, pervasive and game logics in i-docs
- Archives and collective memory as a resource
- Non-linear strategies and the database driven documentary
For a full programme, abstracts, tickets and lots more visit : http://i-docs.org
Keynote Speakers:
Nick Cohen - Multiplatform Commissioning Editor, BBC, UK
Alexandre Brachet - Upian, FR
The company behind Prison Valley, Gaza/Sderot and Portraits dun Nouveau Monde
Matt Adams - Blast Theory, UK
Pervasive games specialists Blast Theory are famous for Cand You See Me Now?, Rider Spoke and their latest A Machine to See With.
Florian Thalhofer - New Media Artist, DE
The inventor of the Korsakow System, the non-linear authoring tool which made possible Forgotten Flags, the (Love Story Project) and Rehearsing Reality.
After the day's events have drawn to a close we move into the evening with a new programme - City Symphonies - which includes a screening of Jean Vigo's classic 1930 film A propos de Nice, and a live performance response by film and sound architects Keith Marley (Liverpool John Moores University) and Geoffrey Cox (University of Huddersfield). A propos de Nice, Jean Vigo's classic first film, is part social documentary, part poem, a 'city symphony' which attempts to capture the spirit, uniqueness - and unease - of Nice at the end of the 1920's. Filmmaker VJs Keith Marley and Geoff Cox take this as their starting point for a live film performance where images, rhythms and sounds from Toxteth and their own A film about Nice will be mashed up with Vigo's material to create a redefined sense of place and meaning. A symphony of broken beats, improvised loops and kaleidoscopic urbanism.
Tickets are available from http://i-docs.org at a cost of £50 - which includes refreshments and entry to the evening event - City Symphonies. A limited number of places are available to Postgraduate researchers at a discounted rate.
i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Jonathan Dovey on behalf of the Digital Culture Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol. The event will be held at the Watershed Media Centre in central Bristol on Friday 25 March 2011.
