16 Nov Los Angeles Times | Moments of Innovation as Best of the Web

Albert Lee of the Los Angeles Times named MIT OpenDocLab and IDFA DocLab’s Moments of Innovation as the best of the web. According to Lee,

The MIT Open Documentary Lab and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s project, “Moments of Innovation,” documents the process of documentation. The project spans from the 17,000-year-old cave paintings to modern-day virtual reality.

What I find most interesting about the project is how photography is being propelled forward by technology. The project shows viewers one of the first “game changers” in photography, the $1 Kodak Brownie Camera that came out in 1900 and allowed the coining of the term “snapshot.” The Brownie camera let everyone become a photographer, and with modern-day photography, award-winning artists such as Doug Rickard travel and photograph the back roads of America, virtually, through Google street view.

The project is an innovative tour through the technology of documentation. And the swiping and scrolling user experience is fun in and of itself.

Read Lee’s review of Moments of Innovation at the LA Times.