Event overview
I-Docs, or ‘interactive documentaries’ are a new kind of multimedia, digital documentary. Nonlinear in format, they foreground agency, multiplicity and transformation, offering users multiple pathways through their content as well as, often, options to comment and contribute. i-Docs have been made about topics ranging from the Gaza conflict to insomnia, from high rise housing to the prison industry. In each instance, i-Doc makers use the flexible formats of i-Docs to problematize the subjects at hand. Their nonlinear interfaces can contest dominant, singular narratives while foregrounding polyvocality. They can also express time, space and social/political relations in nuanced ways, illuminating, for example, the distorted temporalities of nights spent waiting for sleep, or the fragmented life-worlds and divided spaces wrought by border disputes.
Now established in the commercial arena, i-Docs are increasingly being taken up as academic method. My own doctoral project was one of these early experiments. In this workshop we will explore some commercial i-Docs and I will discuss my own use of i-Docs to explore imaginaries of space-time in London’s pop-up culture. In the second half of the session you will be invited to think about what working with i-Docs might bring to your own research. How could spatial and temporal logics, power dynamics, relations or patterns in the subjects you study be illuminated by i-Docs, and how could they, as interactive interfaces, offer opportunities for engagement and impact?
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2019 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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