shirin anlen is an artist and creative technologist based in New York. Her artistic practice involves creative coding, interaction design, drawings, and data research that form the basis for real-life...
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...
Beyza Boyacioglu is a filmmaker and artist from Istanbul. Her work has been exhibited in venues and festivals including MoMA Documentary Fortnight, MoMA PS1, IDFA DocLab, RIDM, Creative Time Summit,...
William Uricchio revisits the histories of old media when they were new; explores interactive and participatory documentary; writes about the past and future of television; thinks a lot about algorithms...
Katerina Cizek is a two-time Emmy-winning director, creator and pioneer in digital media. She is leading a new initiative at the MIT Open Documentary Lab called Co-Creation Studio. Her work has documented...
Sarah Wolozin is a research scientist and director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. She is the co-founder of the Independent XR Distribution Coalition, co-founder and editorial director of Docubase, and...
Deniz Tortum (ODL Researcher 2014-16) is an artist working in film, video and new media. He is a graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the Open Documentary Lab. His...
Lara Baladi (ODL Fellow 2014-16) is an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary Egyptian artist. Baladi applies archives, investigations of myths, and personal narratives to a range of mediums including architectural and video...
Thorsten Trimpop (ODL fellow 2014-16) is a filmmaker based in Chicago. His new film Furusato古里, is a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan's nuclear exclusion zone. It premiered at...
Abby Lord (ODL Intern 2016-17) is passionate about all aspects of the blurry intersection of ethnography and experimental film. For her senior thesis, she wrote about slowness within experimental ethnography...