Programme Kick-Off Meeting DiD

Friday, 24.4.2020

13:00 Welcome Address – Introduction


13:15 Panel 1: What i-docs do – and what we do with i-docs. Tools and Methods

Patrícia Nogueira, iNOVA Media Lab – ICNOVA / University of Coimbra

  • Interactive and VR documentaries: Identifying trends and strategies for engaging the viewer

Jasmin Kermanchi, University of Hamburg

  • Coping with complexity, ephemerality and variability: Tools for the analysis of interactive web-documentaries

14:15 Panel 2: Micro and Macro. Mapping unknown territories

Susan Cardillo, University of Hartford

  • Teaching Micro-Documentaries

Arnau Gifreu Castells, ERAM (University of Girona) / Tecnocampus (UPF)

  • MITINF: Mapping interactive, transmedia and immersive non-fiction

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 Panel 3: Urgent Issues I: The Refugee Crisis through the eye of i-docs

Frédéric Dubois, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

  • How to measure the social impact of interactive documentary

Thomas Weber, University of Hamburg

  • Postmigrant Analysis of Participative Webdocs

Yayu Zheng, University of Southern California

  • Digital Activism in the Refugee Crisis: A Comparative Study between Political Documentary Film and Web Documentary

Saturday, 25.4.2020

9:00 Panel 4: The future of story – the future of i-docs

Florian Thalhofer, Korsakow Institut

  • The evolution of storytelling and how the digital ecology will change our concept of story

Ersan Ocak, TED University Ankara

  • New Media Documentary and Essay Film in the Digital Realm: overlappings | juxtapositions | intersections

Anna Wiehl, University of Bayreuth

  • Making things matter' or: 'the promise of participation'. Reflections on interactivity and interpassivity

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Panel 5: Urgent Issues II: The World we live in [20:45 Melbourne time zone]

Max Schleser, Centre for Transformative Technologies (CTMT) at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia)

  • #NUCLEUS

Daniel Fetzner, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg

  • De/Globalize

11:45 LUNCH BREAK

13:00 Panel 6: The more virtual it gets the more real it becomes?

Jay Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology [7:00 Atlanta time zone]

  • VR and the remediation of filmic authenticity

BeAnother Lab

  • The Machine to be another

14:00 Panel 7: Witnessing in the virtual

Joshua A. Fisher, Columbia College Chicago [8:00 Chicago]

  • Extended Reality Agents Memorializing the Dead and Dying

Florian Mundhenke, Leipzig University

  • The User as protagonist: First-person Storytelling in recent VR Documentaries

15:00 Round Table – What's been up and what coming next