There are a couple of opportunities in England this month for some hands-on experimentation and learning with new tools for interactive and ‘”connected” documentary. Following the i_Docs Symposium here in Bristol there will be two parallel day-long workshops on Saturday 24th with industry professionals from 3WDOC and HonkyLab. “The workshops will explore each company’s cutting-edge authoring [...]
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Interactive Media – New Tools – March Labs
Posted: March 2, 2012 in DCRC, Digital, Documentary, Interactive, open video, Participatory culture, Semantic Web, ToolsTags: 3WDoc, Honkylab, i-Docs 2012, Klynt, Mozilla, Mozilla Popcorn, Popcorn Maker
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Cowbird
Posted: December 9, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Narrative, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: Citizen journalism, Cowbird, Jonathan Harris, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Sep Kamvar, Storify, TED, We Feel Fine
“Cowbird is a simple tool for telling stories, and a public library of human experience.” Jonathan Harris’ latest project, just released, Cowbird is a gorgeous new platform for individual and collaborative storytelling. As Harris describes it on his site, “Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, interested in telling deeper, longer-lasting, more nourishing stories than you’re [...]
Open Video Conference – 2011
Posted: September 10, 2011 in Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, open video, Participatory culture, Semantic Web, ToolsTags: "The Are You Happy Project", 18daysinegypt, Highrise, HTML5, James Burns, Jesse Shapins, Kara Oehler, Kat Cizek, Mapping Main Street, Mozilla, Open Video Conference, popcorn.js, Rebellious Pixels, Web Made Movies, Zeega
It’s this year’s Open Video Conference (OVC) in NYC this weekend. “Open video is the movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video.” I was there last year and it was a great event, very relevant to my work, and this year’s lineup is no less strong. There are two projects on the programme which [...]
A Filmmaker-in-Residence
Posted: April 9, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: BBC, Challenge for Change, CINER, Community Programmes Unit, DCRC, Filmmaker-in-Residence, Gerry Flahive, Highrise, Holy Mountain, iDocs, iDocs Symposium, Jacqueline Wallace, Katerina Cizek, MPI-TV, NFB, Out my Window, Peter Wintonick, PIne Point, Public AccessTV, Sandra Gaudenzi, Seeing is Believing, Video Nation
Good news this week from Cannes, where Katerina Cizek / Gerry Flahive‘s ‘Out my Window’ was the deserving winner of a Digital Emmy for non-fiction at MIP-TV. I’ve enthused about this National Film Board of Canada interactive documentary project here a number of times. (Nov ’10, Jan ’11). It’s the first output from Highrise, “a [...]
The Open Video Conference
Posted: October 7, 2010 in Documentary, Tools, Co-creation, Participatory culture, Collaborative Tools, UGC, Narrative, DCRCTags: Michael Wesch, Aaron Koblin, Brett Gaylor, HTML5, Creative Commons, Mozilla, Open Video Conference, Open Video Alliance, Scott Draves, Casey Pugh, Jamie Wilkinson, LucasFilm, Arts, Video, Ben Moskowitz, Kaltura, Vincent Moon, Intelligent Television, Star Wars: Uncut, Star Wars: A New Hope, popcorn.js, Susan Crawford, Ushahidi, Eric Whiteacre, Virtual Choir, Dove, Onslaught, Shawn Ahmed, Uncultured Project, Adam Chodikoff, The Yes Men, Eyebeam
Having worked in TV and then for a decade in “new” media I’ve felt acutely aware of inhabiting distinct cultures in my professional life. It’s perhaps been most apparent when I’ve been involved in cross-platform projects. Linear and non-linear production structures and processes don’t easily mesh, and I’ve been in situations with good creative people [...]
Web Made Movies
Posted: September 19, 2010 in Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: Arcade Fire, Brett Gaylor, Creative Commons, Google, HTML5, Ingrid Kopp, John Grierson, Jonathan Harris, Mozilla, Open source, Open Video Conference, Open Video Lab, opensourcecinema.org, rip!, Semantic Web, The Wilderness Downtown, Tribeca Film Institute, Web Made Movies, Wikipedia
John Grierson provided an enduring definition of documentary as the “creative treatment of actuality”. In the twenty first century, actuality encompasses all the data the web has to offer. Some artists – perhaps most notably Jonathan Harris in projects including We Feel Fine (20006) and I Want You to Want Me (2008) -have been experimenting [...]
Arcade Fire
Posted: September 4, 2010 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, Narrative, Participatory culture, Tools, UncategorizedTags: Aaron Koblin, Arcade Fire, Chris Milk, Google, Google Maps, Google Street View, HTML5, Music video, Street View, The Johnny Cash Project, The Wilderness Downtown
Since my recent post about The Johnny Cash Project, its director Chris Milk has followed that up with the launch this week of another very interesting participatory piece, a collaboration with Google Creative Labs and Aaron Koblin in his role as Technology Lead there. The Wilderness Downtown offers an interactive experience of the Arcade Fire song “We [...]
The Johnny Cash Project
Posted: August 13, 2010 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: Aaron Koblin, Chris Milk, Clay Shirky, Flight Patterns, For Ten Thousand Cents, Here Comes Everybody, Johnny Cash. The Johnny Cash Project, Mechanical Turk, New York Talk Exchange, The Sheep Market
In the latest in a series of works exploring crowdsourcing, American artist Aaron Koblin, with director Chris Milk, has created a lovely collaborative piece – a collective portrait of musician Johnny Cash. The Johnny Cash Project invites fans of the country musician to share their visions of Cash, who died in 2003, “as he lives on in [...]
Tags: flipboard
Launched last week Flipboard is a free iPad app that turns the photos and stories your friends and contacts on social networks are linking to into a browsable magazine format. It looks good.
