UPDATE: The video recording of this webinar is now available! You can view it here. We are delighted to invite you to join us for our third i-Docs Community Conversations webinar – i-docs and multi-perspectival thinking. In this webinar i-Docs Co-director, Judith Aston, and Stefano Odorico, Director of the International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling (IRIS), will present their ongoing …
We are delighted to invite you to join us for our second i-Docs Community Conversations webinar – Creative Practice and Climate Crisis. UPDATE: The video for this session is now available! You can view it here. One of our themes for the now-postponed i-Docs conference back in March this year was ‘climate and ecological emergency’, and we had a number …
Join us as we launch i-Docs Community Conversations, a new seminar series which enables us to connect remotely with the i-Docs community and beyond. UPDATE: The video recording of this webinar is now available, you can VIEW IT HERE. First up is CO-CREATING IN TIMES OF CORONA PANDEMIC – Thursday 2 July. A conversation between Sandra Gaudenzi (i-Docs), Sandra Tabares …
We are heart-broken to announce that we have come to the conclusion in the last 24 hours that we need to postpone i-Docs 2020. We have been increasingly concerned over recent days about going ahead with the Symposium in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and feel we can no longer justify encouraging delegates to travel and gather in this context. …
i-Docs is committed to building inclusion, diversity and equality for minority and excluded groups, because they are under-represented in the creative media sector. As part of this commitment, we are offering up to ten full delegate inclusion passes (value £250) for i-Docs 2020. Are you beginning to include aspects of digital non-fiction or interactive and immersive media in your work …
Update: We are sad to announce that i-Docs 2020 is now postponed. Full statement here. i-Docs 2020 is upon us in just over three weeks! We have a dedicated Symposium website on its way, but for now, here is where you can find all the information you need – and the link to purchase tickets! See our latest newsletter for …
i-Docs is thrilled to announce the first four keynote speakers for our Bristol symposium in March 2020. Tickets are now on sale, and the early bird rate is available for a limited time – scroll to the bottom for more details. Our first Bristol featured speakers are: Katerina Cizek is a two-time Emmy-winning director, documentarian and pioneer in digital media. …
i-Docs announces a multi-site climate-aware conference for 2020, connecting Bristol and Montreal i-Docs is thrilled to announce a partnership with Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, to present the first distributed i-Docs Symposium. The Symposium in Bristol in March 2020 will be accompanied by an exciting programme of simultaneous events at Concordia University’s Feminist Media Studio, including keynote presentations, panels and …
Dancing with yourself, quease-inducing yet marvellously ethereal Taiwanese VR, dinner with Puffy the cat, and an affecting and surprising take on the MH17 disaster – just some of the experiences of Verity McIntosh at IDFA DocLab. Verity is Senior Lecturer for Virtual and Extended Realities, and Programme Lead for the MA Virtual Reality at UWE Bristol. Here, she shares her …
There’s still time – a week and a half to go until submissions close for i-Docs 2020! Submit here by midnight GMT, Sunday 3 November 2019. Following the success of five previous i-Docs Symposia, we are pleased to announce the call for participation for i-Docs 2020. Convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Mandy Rose and Julia Scott-Stevenson, and hosted by …
Maturity in craft, thoughtful use of place and the power of deep fakes – just some of the takeaways of Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 2019 Alternate Realities exhibition (6-11 June), as observed by the i-Docs team – Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Mandy Rose and Julia Scott-Stevenson. What follows is an abridged and adapted version of our conversation about some of the immersive …
An enormous thank you to Lina Srivastava for her talk, Making Your Media Matter: Narrative Strategy and Social Impact, held at Watershed on 5 June. Lina took the audience on a journey through a number of case studies of media projects she has worked on that have had incredible impact in their communities – local or issue-based – and presented …
i-Docs research fellow Julia Scott-Stevenson recently returned from Tribeca Film Festival, New York, where she checked out some of the offerings in the Immersive Arcade and 360 Cinema. Most striking about Tribeca Immersive, in New York earlier this month, was the sheer diversity of media styles on display. Across 22 projects showing in the Immersive Arcade, there was VR, realtime …
In her research conducted during a fellowship on immersion with the South West Creative Technology Network, Julia Scott-Stevenson explores: How can immersive media create shared experiences that imagine pathways towards a preferred future? This piece was originally published in Immerse: creative discussion of emerging nonfiction storytelling on March 8, 2019. Climate armageddon, the rise of the far right, the arrival …
Julia Scott-Stevenson writes about her experience of The Collider, the latest immersive work from creative duo Anagram — in its inaugural showing at IDFA DocLab in November 2018. A fellow participant and I are directed through two separate doors to begin the experience independently, accompanied by a narrator’s voice through headphones. I enter a tiny room, and the narrator describes the machine …
