On Slow Images and Multivalent Objects In this talk, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his transdisciplinary practice. Vadera’s work explores how different technologies shape and control the ways that...
The Future is Present: Cultivating Intimacy in Process and Practice The Future is Present (TFP) is a co-created performance laboratory that amplifies the life-affirming demands of young Black and Indigenous activists. It...
Social Justice in a Virtual World The makers of the immersive media experience THE CHANGING SAME will discuss the challenges and opportunities their team faced in the development, production and distribution of their...
Socially Engaged Art in Volatile Times In this arts practice talk, Dalit artist Thenmozhi Soundararajan will discuss her work as a transmedia artist covering issues of race, caste, and gender based...
Harnessing the Power of Sound in Immersive Storytelling Creative Director and Immersive Artist Tamara Shogaolu will discuss the role of sound in her immersive storytelling process. In a medium often focused...
Creating a Culture of Innovation at FRONTLINE FRONTLINE Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath will discuss what it means for a national investigative journalism organization to be innovating in a disrupted media landscape. Through...
Who Taught You to Love? Hank Willis Thomas will discuss his work that addresses the visual systems that perpetuate inequality using photographs, sculpture, video, and collaborative public art projects with For Freedoms...
Dish with One Spoon As part of the Inaugural Indigenous Digital Delegation at MIT, Elder Dr. Duke Redbird (Ojibway) will present a keynote talk titled “Dish with One Spoon”. The talk will...
The Ethics of VR Documentary Documentarists engaging with VR encounter ethical issues common to traditional documentary practice. Additionally, VR documentary gives rise to specific ethical challenges relating to the psychological implications...
The Body is Along for the Ride: The power and considerations of embodiment in constructing extended reality stories Nonny de la Peña, PhD, will discuss some of the key considerations about...