_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…
_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…
_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”…
_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…
_The Living Documentary
12I do not see interactive technology as a tool, but as a process that brings cultural, aesthetic, and political changes. Within this context,…
_Sound stories
5Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.
_The Visceral Web
5The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_Pushing Boundaries
5Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…
_Harsh Wonder: The Mystery & Reality of Being Alive
10I think a lot about this Mary Oliver quote: “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt…
_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…
_Let’s play with documentary!
11Since the very beginning of cinema, documentary has played. With its characters (Nanook of the North), with reality (all modern mixes between…
_Let’s Not Forget the Climate Crisis
10Here are exemplar projects using innovative media approaches bringing the urgency of climate change into our everyday lives.
_Trailblazers, Technologies and Truth(s)
13Documentarians have always been at the forefront of innovation in form and content, as William Uricchio has so eloquently highlighted with…
_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…
