Announcing the 2013-2014 OpenDocLab Artist and Research Affiliates
The MIT Open Documentary Lab is pleased to announce its artist and research affiliates for the academic year 2013-2014. By participating in Lab activities, this inaugural group of artists, journalists, scholars, and technologists will explore the potential of new technologies as they collaborate with MIT researchers to shape the storytelling practices of the future. ...
Becky Hurwitz on Collaborative Storytelling
Becky Hurwitz of MIT’s Center for Civic Media recently wrote a blog about artist Olga Nunes‘s collaborative storytelling projects. In one of these projects, Nunes asked people to contribute memories related to smell by calling a phone number and recording a message. The messages people left, in Becky’s words, were both “touching and deep” and...
The New Digital Storytelling Series: Katerina Cizek
The MIT Open Documentary Lab teamed up with Filmmaker Magazine on The New Digital Storytelling Series, a group of interviews with leading digital storytellers, technologists and curators. This interview was previously published on FilmmakerMagazine.com and is reposted with permission. In the tenth part of Filmmaker‘s interview project with prominent figures from the world of transmedia,...
The OpenDocLab Research Forum Launches with Arnau Gifreu Castells
The Open Documentary Lab is pleased to announce the Research Forum, a space for researchers to voice their opinions and test new theories. As part of our mission to promote the exchange of ideas about the new arts of documentary, we hope to encourage academic discussion and debate about these emerging forms by creating a...
The New Digital Storytelling Series: Lance Weiler
The MIT Open Documentary Lab teamed up with Filmmaker Magazine on The New Digital Storytelling Series, a group of interviews with leading digital storytellers, technologists and curators. This interview was previously published on FilmmakerMagazine.com and is reposted with permission. In the ninth part of Filmmaker‘s interview project with prominent figures from the world of transmedia,...
Sandy Storyline wins the Tribeca Storyscapes Competition!
Congratulations to the collaborative documentary Sandy Storyline, which was just awarded the top prize for transmedia storytelling at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscapes exhibition. Chronicling New York’s response to Hurricane Sandy, the online documentary is a collaboration between Cowbird, Housing is a Human Right, and our neighbors at the MIT Center for Civic Media. Interoccupy.net...
