Tickets are now available for i-Docs 2012 – an International Lab/Symposium on interactive documentary – and moving fast!
Register online at: http://bit.ly/idocsregister
March 22-23, 2012 at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol UK
Building on the success of last year’s event - and now spread over two days - i-Docs 2012 offers a provocative and challenging programme of parallel panel sessions, case study presentations, feedback labs and examples of new work. Some of the most active and creative interactive documentary experts from across mainland Europe, North America, Canada and the UK - brought together for two full days of viewing and discussion.
Topics will include:
• Open source, HTML5 and the semantic web
Popcorn jr, Zeega, Klynt, 3WDOC – interrogating the tools and the makers. Workshops with 3WDOC and HonkyLab.
Are producers now curators? New forms of narrative amongst live data feeds and documentary recordings..
• Layered experience, augmented reality games and pervasive media
Locative i-docs: senses of place/placing the senses - experience design and the ‘Real World”
• Participants/Authors? – creating new meaning in collaborative projects
• Activism and ethics
New strategies for activism; Social media networks; Role-play, implicating the user; The terrain of emerging business models for i-docs
For a full programme, abstracts, tickets and lots more visit http://i-docs.org
Among the invited speakers:
• Jigar Mehta – Co-creator 18 Days in Egypt
• Brett Gaylor – Director Popcorn project, Mozilla Foundation
• Submarine Channel – Creators of visually-led transmedia projects: the award winning Collapsus, Minimovies and Hotel
Via live video feed from Toronto!
• Kat Cizek – Director, Highrise Project – National Film Board of Canada
Full two-day tickets are available from http://bit.ly/idocstorefront at a cost of £150 – which includes lunch and refreshments. Single day passes are available for £90.
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
http://dcrc.org.uk
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