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If you have been reading my blog for a wile you probably know that lately I have been concentrating on the notion of “open source documentary”. I knew that film makers such as Brett Gaylor had been promoting RIP: a remix manifesto as an “open source documentary”, but when I read that BBC2 was starting [...]

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Documentary Now!

If you happen to be in London on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th of January you might want to attend the annual Documentary Now! conference at Birbeck College.This is a small but friendly 2 days conference about contemporary documentary issues where some new media projects are discussed. For this year I know that their guest [...]

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Cross-Platform documentaries @ Sheffield’s Doc Fest

I’m just back from Sheffield’s Doc Fest (4-9th of November).
I did not go there because Doc Fest is UK’s most well known documentary festival, but because they are opening up to a vision of documentary that is much wider than linear documentary.  Among all the seminars and sessions that run on the side of [...]

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What is an “open source documentary”?

I have signed up to collaborate to Preempting Dissent (http://www.opensourcecinema.org’s latest collaborative documentary)… For this you need to log in and create your profile, which I did.
The project is a collaboration between researchers and filmmakers at the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University and the Department of Communication, Florida State University.
So far only 10 [...]

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Preempting Dissent – a call to action for Open Source Cinema’s new project

I publish here the call to action that I received for Open Source Cinema’s new project: Preempting Dissent.
Here is an opportunity for us all to get hands on and to be part of an interactive documentary!!
PREEMPTING DISSENT: OPEN SOURCING SECRECY
An Open Source Documentary Film Project
Call for Videos, Testimonials, Photographs, and other Audio Visual Materials
This project [...]

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This website is both an archive and a discussion forum for those interested in Interactive Documentaries. It also documents my journey while doing a PhD. Feel free to browse and comment, but especially... DO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ARCHIVE!

Latest addition to the Interactive Documentary Archive

YMYI (You Move You Interact)

2008
By: João Martinho Moura and Jorge Sousa
Project type: Installation live gallery event real time experience
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PhD Mosaic

P1000990Kinetica art fair 2010DeLanda & DeleuzeDecode exhibition at the V&A
Working on my blogDocumentary now7.01.10Hampstead heath on a cold sunday
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The rethorics of PhD writing

Thursday, 4 February 2010

I am reading DeLanda and Deleuze because I’ll might use the idea of “assemblages” to analyse interactive documentaries. I know that go to PhD Blog