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