_Pushing Boundaries
5Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…
_Transmedia 101
7Innovative projects showcasing the potential of transmedia approaches in documentary, curated by MIT Open Documentary Lab.
_Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact
14They use their art to create avenues for political and social framing, empathy and change, or direct action. And they set a cultural stage…
_The Interactive Documentary: my life, my passion, my playlist
20Interactive digital media have had an impact on the logics of production, exhibition and reception of traditional audiovisual documentaries.
_Re-Enchanting Spaces: Participatory Location-Based Media
9Location-based media—physically or digitally linked to physical locations, conceptually connected to these locations, and designed to…
_In Search of Truth
16I’m fascinated by the relationship of “point-of-view” to our understanding of truth. I’m amazed by how vehemently we hold on to…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_Full Spectrum Documentary on the Climb
15Since 2008, AIR has been cultivating an emerging documentary form: “full spectrum public media.” Such creations extend beyond the…
_Mapping the Intersection of Two Cultures: Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism
35The projects on this playlist mark the convergence of interactive documentary and digital journalism; two forms that, despite their distinctive…
_Documentary Games
10The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"
_Caspar’s All-Time Favorites
14For the launch of the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s _docubase at IDFA 2013, Caspar Sonnen compiled a list of his all-time favorite interactive…
_The New Visual Documentary
12The new visual documentary is different from what already exists in the well-defined editorial, film, broadcasting, and art contexts, both…
_Constraints
11Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…
_The Internet is Reality
5We interpret the world around us, we seek and capture reality, we steal bits of life that occur outside our devices. We press “rec”…
_Energy, Economy and Culture
5Can interactive docs bring social issues alive differently and in ways that more directly make connections for users between their own lives…
