Programme : Thursday 22 March

Programme for Friday, 23 March →
Below is the full programme for Thursday, 22 March, click on the links to find out more about each speaker.

i-Docs is the first symposium totally dedicated to the interactive documentary genre. Convened by Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi and supported by the Digital Cultures Research Centre/UWE.

9.00Welcome by Sandra and Judith
9.10
10.00
Keynote Speaker
Jigar Mehta - Digital Entrepreneur, Journalist and Storyteller
Why you should break the rules: What I learned from launching 18 Days in Egypt
10.00
11.15
Participation and Authorship

Max Whitby - UK
The role of the Director in Interactive Documentary

Siobhan O’Flynn and Faisal Anwar - University of Toronto, CA
+city: a new paradigm in i-Doc creation




Tea Break - 15 mins
11.30
13.00
Paulina Tervo - Interactive Producer / Filmmaker, UK
The Awra Amba project

Brian Winston - University of Lincoln, UK
Ethics of Participation: what must we film now?
13.00
14.00
LUNCH BREAK – 60 min

14.00
14.30
Skype session with Kat Cizek - director of the NFB's Highrise, CAN
14.30
15.45
Cinema 1 Watershed 1 & 2
Feedback Session

Jigar Mehta - Digital Entrepreneur, Journalist and Storyteller
Questioning Participation Lab

Judith Aston - University of the West of England, UK
Modes of participation in i-docs

Peter Dukes- University of Westminster, UK
Participation in interactive documentary as a simulacrum of social change

Mandy Rose- Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, UK
Documentary, Open Space, Citizenship -
“Making Publics”?


Colin Thomas (UK)
Creating a documentary vook - provides rich opportunities but also presents considerable challenges
Tea break – 15 min
16.00-
17.15
HonkyLab feed-back session

Guillaume Urjewicz & Maria Gemayel - Honkylab, FR
Project Feed-back session - Authorship and Polyvocality

Laura Aguiar - University of Ulster, NI
Unseen Women: Stories from Armagh Gaol
Designing software for an interactive digital archive


Fotis Begklis - Goldsmiths University, UK
The “Boules” of Naousa, a Living Tradition: Constructing knowledge in multimodal ethnographic research

Irene Lusztig - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
The Worry Box Project

Alison Kahn - Oxford Brookes, UK
Our Heritage - Our Memories - Our Lives

Programme for Friday, 23 March →