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