Architecting the New News Journalism and documentary are facing similar challenges: disrupted business models, a tsunami of new platforms, and hard questions about racial and gender equity. What will it take...
We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media In a conversation moderated by ODL Founder & Principal Investigator William Uricchio, Louis Massiah and Patricia Zimmerman will discuss We Tell: Fifty Years of...
Incubator as Collaborative Methodology This talk explores the recent projects of Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Julie Nagam, and Dr. Carla Taunton as a collective of curator-artist-scholars who present innovative projects in...
Immersion and Entanglement at the End of the World In this performative and wide ranging talk, artist Duncan Speakman will explore how immersive and augmented artworks might offer new ways to...
Archive/Counter-Archive Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage is a research-creation partnership led by Janine Marchessault involving over twenty archival organizations and cultural repositories for AV and other media in Canada. This project...
[caption id="attachment_19939" align="alignleft" width="612"] Photo by Sébastien Roy[/caption] How can we document the very process of curating digital archives and databases? How can we frame their evolution, and define what type...
XR and African Space Makers: Economic, Cultural, and Political Perspectives In this talk, BlackRhino VR Co-Founder and African XR pioneer Brian Afande will discuss the status of the African XR ecosystem and the process behind international...
Mapping Blackness by ODL Fellow Carla Bishop is an immersive geo-locative digital archive. This platform integrates geotagging, AR, 360 video, and traditional documentary storytelling to document and archive the histories, stories,...
By Ambar Reyes This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Prison X” Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New Frontier section. Here, Ambar Reyes explores two projects that tackled...
By Srushti Kamat This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Beyond the Breakdown” Editor’s note: Each year, IndieWire collaborates with MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program by inviting students to reflect on Sundance’s New Frontier program. Sundance’s New Frontiers’ team...