William Uricchio | Principal Investigator
William Uricchio Principal Investigator, MIT Open Documentary Lab Director, Comparative Media Studies uricchio AT mit DOT edu William Uricchio is Professor and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is also Lead Principal Investigator of the MIT Game Lab. His efforts as...
Sarah Wolozin | Director
Sarah Wolozin Director, Open Documentary Lab swolozin AT mit DOT edu Sarah Wolozin initiates and oversees activities related to the lab including partnerships, projects and events that support the emerging field of digital storytelling. She also manages lab operations. Before coming to MIT, she produced documentaries and educational media for a wide variety of media...
Katie Edgerton | Research Assistant
Katie Edgerton Research Assistant, Open Documentary Lab S.M. Candidate, Comparative Media Studies kedgerto AT mit DOT edu Katie Edgerton studies the future of the film and television industry, and emerging forms of digital storytelling. Her forthcoming thesis focuses on television writing and new technology. Katie is a founding member of Social TV, an interest group...
Julie Fischer | Research Assistant
Julie Fischer Research Assistant, Open Documentary Lab S.M. Candidate, Comparative Media Studies jfische2 AT mit DOT edu Julie Fischer graduated from Wellesley College, where she studied philosophy and psychology. Her interests lie in exploring the cognitive experience of media and the characteristics of consciousness that arise when we engage with fictional and nonfictional narratives. She...
Vivek Bald | Bengali Harlem
Vivek Bald Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media vbald AT mit DOT edu Vivek Bald is a documentary filmmaker and scholar whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. His current project traces the lives of South Asian Muslim silk peddlers and merchant seamen who settled within communities of color in the...
Chris Boebel | Exit Zero
Chris Boebel Manager, MIT Video Productions Director, Exit Zero cboebel AT mit DOT edu Chris Boebel is manager of MIT Video’s post-production unit and a producer of documentary and other video programs at MIT Video Productions, part of the MIT Libraries. Chris is also instructor and co-developer of MIT’s “DV Lab”, a graduate and undergraduate...
Federico Casalegno | Locast
Federico Casalegno Director, MIT Mobile Experience Lab casalegno AT mit DOT edu Federico Casalegno, Ph.D., is the Director of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab and Associate Director of the MIT Design Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2008, he is the director of the Green Home Alliance between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Sasha Costanza-Chock | VozMob
Sasha Costanza-Chock Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies schock AT mit DOT edu Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and media maker who works in the interrelated areas of social movements and information and communication technologies; participatory technology design and community based participatory research; and the transnational movement for media justice and communication rights, including comunicación...
Glorianna Davenport | Living Observatory
Glorianna Davenport Former Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, running Interactive Cinema and Media Fabrics group; presently runs the Tidmarsh Farms project Trained as a sculptor and documentary filmmaker, Ms. Davenport has achieved international recognition for her work in the digital media forms. Davenport’s research explores fundamental issues related to the collaborative co-construction...
D. Fox Harrell | Living Liberia Fabric
D. Fox Harrell Associate Professor of Digital Media, Comparative Media Studies, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) fox DOT harrell AT mit DOT edu Fox Harrell is a researcher exploring the relationship between imaginative cognition and computation. His research involves developing new forms of computational narrative, gaming, social media, and...
Christine Walley | Exit Zero
Christine Walley Associate Professor, Anthropology Program cwalley AT mit DOT edu A documentary filmmaker and associate professor in Anthropology, Christine Walley is co-directing and producing a documentary, Exit Zero, exploring changing community life in a former Midwestern steel town. Her research and teaching interests include: the environment, development, gender, documentary/ethnographic film, and theories of globalization and...
Arnau Gifreu | Research Affiliate
Arnau Gifreu Research Affiliate, MIT Open Documentary Lab Comparative Media Studies agifreu AT mit DOT edu Arnau Gifreu is a Professor of Communication Studies at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Universitat de Vic (UVIC), directing Final Grade Projects in the multimedia field. He is the Director of UVIC_Lab, the Digital Content Laboratory at...
