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...
Still funny?: Political satire in Brazil with Bruno Sartori In episode 7 of the deepfakery series, leading Brazilian deepfake creator and satirist Bruno Sartori joins WITNESS Brazil Program Manager Victor Ribeiro...
Research Driven Art Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher exploring how new kinds of data sets (including emotional data, traumatic data, and political data) can affect algorithms. How can these...
Three Documentarians View the Future of the Digital Past This discussion will explore preservation challenges and possibilities as experienced by three award-winning artist-documentarians: Will Sylvester (Question Bridge), Oscar Raby (Assent), and...
Faking the Powerful In episode 6 of the deepfakery series, human rights activists Julie Owono (Internet without Borders, Facebook Oversight Board) and Adebayo Okeowo (WITNESS), and University of Oklahoma human rights...
Manipulating memories: Archives, history and deepfakes In episode 5 of the Deepfakery series, artist/director Francesca Panetta and technologist Halsey Burgund of MIT, computational artist James Coupe, and WITNESS staff archivist Yvonne...