I’d Hide You – by Blast Theory

POST UPDATE: So this event’s been and gone now, but you can read a great review of it: A highlight of the festival was Blast Theory’s contribution, I’d Hide You, a live-action game based in the streets of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. As Blast Theory’s runners, each dressed in a distinctive uniform and equipped with a video camera, ducked and dived …

Show & Tell: 5 cool things people showed us at i-Docs

The i-Docs symposium seems like so long ago already, so partly for nostalgia and partly because I forgot to do it at the time, here’s a few of the cool projects people showed us during their presentations. 1. Wolfram|Alpha is like Google but with far more depth: [quote]Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching …

Henry Jenkins: Spreadable Media presentation and conversation

POST UPDATE Professor Henry Jenkins is well known for setting the topic “Transmedia Storytelling” some years ago. Now he answers our questions about “Why Transmedia?” Henry Jenkins [T, F, W] is well known to the people working in the field of  transmedia storytelling. He is a Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts which is a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School of Communicationand …

Jonathan Harris soon to present in Barcelona

  For those who, like me, have a passion for Jonathan Harris‘ work… here is a good news (if you are Europe based): he will be presenting on Saturday 19th of May at the OFFF Barcelona 2012 festival, in Spain. He will have one hour to present so… I hope he will speak about his latest work Cowbird and Modern …

The “Boules” of Naousa, a Living Tradition: a presentation from Fotis Begklis

Fotis Begklis is an Academic Developer specialising in Technology Enhanced Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is involved in a variety of staff development activities for teaching and learning with technologies in Higher Education. Below are his slides from i-Docs 2012 where he presented his project which will become an interactive documentary which will be ready before the beginning …

Martha Ladly – Mobile Communities at Work and Play

Below are Martha Ladly‘s slides and text from her presentation at i-Docs 2012. Open publication – Free publishing – More documentary Open publication – Free publishing – More documentary Martha Ladly is a Professor at the OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, and a senior researcher at the OCADU Mobile Experience Lab. She specializes in technology and design research, has been …

i-Docs 2012 : Slides

We are currently in the process of gathering the slides and presentations from this years i-Docs. Below are a couple we’ve already received from Charlotte Crofts and Jackie Calderwood. Geo spatial documentary presentation at i-docs 2012 View more documents from Charlotte Crofts   Living Voices: bringing the landscape to life View more PowerPoint from jackiecalderwood

Feedback on participation and authorship panel

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this session – it certainly led to some lively discussion and helped to frame key debates for the rest of the symposium. The role of the author is key here – from Max Whitby’s work which is all about storytelling, to Siobhan O’Flynn and Faisal Anwar’s work around visualising experience and bringing forth …

Kerric Harvey on i-Docs 2012

A COMPLETELY PERSONAL AND QUITE POSSIBLY PIXELATED SUMMARY OF KEY TAKE-AWAY POINTS FROM THE 2012 I-DOCS SYMPOSIUM, by  Kerric Harvey   1. Match the tool with the job and start with “the job.” In other words, let technology enable, assist, or augment creativity, not define it. By the same token, avoid gratuitous interactivity—the act of making something “interactive” because you …

5 handpicked articles from the WWW

There’s so much out there, so here’s a few articles that caught the eyes of i-Docs over the past few days: 1. First up, a list within a list – ‘Six pros and cons of interactive documentaries’ – although the ‘cons’ are not really cons, more challenges which should push you to overcome them! “It’s not so much what building …

Brian Winston on i-Docs 2012

Thanks Brian for sharing with our community your first impressions and reflections on i-Docs 2012! Here is what what you sent us: INSTANT ILL-CONSIDERED REFLECTIONS Technicism’s essentially flaw is an apparent need to be revolutionary when, in fact, technology is evolutionary. The illusion of revolution is created basically by exhibiting profound historical amnesia augmented by hyperbolic claims of effect. Technicism …

Max Whitby on i-Docs 2012

Max has sent me this post on the participation and authorship panel from the touchpress website: http://www.touchpress.com. As a pioneer of content-led approaches to videodisc and CD-ROM, he really does know about the deep bedrock that lies beneath our feet. Over to Max: Just back from the most excellent i-docs conference in Bristol. I spoke at one of the early …