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.
| 9.00 | Welcome by Sandra and Judith |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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? |
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| 13.00 14.00 | LUNCH BREAK – 60 min |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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