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...
The Decolonizing Science Documentary Film Project by ODL Fellow Kendall Moore will explore the origins, creation, and evolution of western science as a western European colonial enterprise, one that sublimated, marginalized...
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 Chemistry of Racism by ODL Fellow Penelope Jagessar Chaffer is a multimedia triptych exploring the systematic and often deliberate poisoning and exploitation of the Black and colored body by...
Alexander Reben (ODL Fellow 2013-2014) is an artist and roboticist who explores humanity through the lens of art and technology. Using “art as experiment” his work allows for the viewer to...
Andrew Lowenthal (ODL Fellow 2013-2015) is Co-Founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific human rights and environmental non-profit exploring the intersection of video, technology and social change. EngageMedia harnesses...
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...