Data as a Narrative Device – ‘A Means to an End and not the End itself’

An interview with Janine Steele and Loc Dao on data-driven story-telling and emotional engagement During his stay as a Fulbright Scholar in the Digital Studios of the NFB in Vancouver, Lomax Boyd, a scientist and documentary producer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, had the opportunity to work with Janine Steele and Loc Dao of NFB/Interactive. As Chief Digital Officer …

Clouds: a documentary about code and culture – An update

UPDATE:  Following the release of their pilot version of the project, the Clouds team now want to produce the documentary in an interactive environment: “The CLOUDS experience is generated from a database of richly tagged interviews. For you, the viewer, the story begins with your curiosity. You input a question or search term as the starting point, setting the initial …

Notes from Exploiting the Feedback Loop #xosummit: Guest post from Tomas Rawlings

Guest post from Tomas Rawlings, who chaired a panel at the (very) recent Crossover Summit at Sheffield DocFest – you can read his original article here, along with tons of other great blog posts about games, networked media, technology, evolution & nature. On Wednesday I chaired a session about feedback, games and media at the Crossover Summit at Sheffield Documentary Festival (image) …

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 …