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Enacting polyphony: an interview with Florian Thalhofer (2018)

Thalhofeer, Florian; Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

Enacting polyphony: an interview with Florian Thalhofer (2018)

Thalhofeer, Florian; Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

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Florian Thalhofer is a documentary filmmaker and the inventor of Korsakow, a software to create a new form of film and a principle to create a new kind of story. Florian’s system allows video makers to create nonlinear and interactive films and to tell stories through a number of links generated by keywords. Thalhofer’s Korsakow films include Planet Galata and The Other Fun Stuff. Starting from a SNU (Smallest Narrative Units, as he calls them) his film are polyphonic representations of our world. Florian gave a keynote at the first i-Docs Symposium in 2011, and has been an active and deeply committed member of the i-Docs community ever since.

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/7096

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Experimental polyphony: on the media ecological research of intermediate bodies (2018)

Fetzner, Daniel; Dornberg, Martin

Experimental polyphony: on the media ecological research of intermediate bodies (2018)

Fetzner, Daniel; Dornberg, Martin

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Our media-artistic performances and installations, INTERCORPOREAL SPLITS (2010-2013), BUZZ (2014-2015), WASTELAND (2015-2016), as well as our new collaboration with Bruno Latour, DE\GLOBALIZE (2018-2020), are not just about polyphony. Here, however, we rediscover them under this heading, thus giving them a new twist, while mapping out issues, mechanisms and functional modes of the polyphonic.

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/7098

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Polyphony in practice: an interview with Sharon Daniel (2018)

Daniel, Sharon; Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

Polyphony in practice: an interview with Sharon Daniel (2018)

Daniel, Sharon; Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

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Media artist Sharon Daniel has been involved with the i-Docs community since its inception—having presented her online documentaries and works in progress at all five i-Docs symposia that have taken place since 2011. We consider her to be a central and inspirational figure within this community, for whom the concepts of polyphony and heteroglossia are key to her ongoing practice. Here we build on her own previous references to these terms, in order to explore with her in more depth how polyphony and heteroglossia play out through her work. We also ask how and why she sees this approach to “cultural democracy” as an ever-moreurgent form of activism and intervention.

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/7095

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Rediscovering “wonder” through i-docs: reflections on “immersive” viewing in the context of contemporary digital/visual practices (2018)

Favero, Paolo

Rediscovering “wonder” through i-docs: reflections on “immersive” viewing in the context of contemporary digital/visual practices (2018)

Favero, Paolo

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From the invention of geometrical perspective onwards images have, in a Western context, been characterised by a specific politics and epistemological ambition. Solidified by the invention of the camera, “our” images have separated the observer from the observed, the mind from the body, allowing for what has been considered a “neutral” observation. “New images” (i.e. images produced with emerging digital visual technologies) are today posing a challenge to such conventions. Relational, material, haptic and immersive by nature,such images go hand in hand with new image-making practices characterised by nonlinearity, interactivity, participativity and immersivity. The present article explores this emerging terrain in the context of the documentary form. Moving back and forth in space and time, hence comparing image-making practices that belong to different cultures and epochs, the article engages with the key political and epistemological challenges of the documentary image in the con...

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/7093

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The poetics and politics of polyphony: towards a research method for interactive documentary (2018)

Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

The poetics and politics of polyphony: towards a research method for interactive documentary (2018)

Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

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This article stems from a panel we jointly convened at the i-Docs 2018 Symposium, where we presented a series of provocations with a view to generating a new theoretical framework for i-docs. These provocations were inspired by all aspects of Mikhail Bakthin’s concept of polyphony, from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. This article presents these provocations and reflects further on them. A number of key issues are documented, expanded and commented upon, as a potential framework for further research, including multiplicity, the chronotope, dialogism and interaction. We propose that these lead to new ways of approaching complexity. With the aim of using juxtaposition, nonlinearity and layering to break down binaries, the article demonstrates how complexity can be embraced and, crucially, how the simplicity within it can be revealed. In other words, a key proposition here is that we should accept and celebrate complexity as the natural order of things, without needin...

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/7094

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The Shore Line as polyphony in practice: a case study (2018)

Miller, Elizabeth

The Shore Line as polyphony in practice: a case study (2018)

Miller, Elizabeth

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The Shore Line (2017) is a collaborative interactive documentary that features over forty individuals from nine countries who are confronting the threats of unsustainable development and extreme weather along our global coasts. In addition to video profiles the site features dynamic maps, visualisations, and soundscapes. In this case study, producer and director Elizabeth Miller discusses how the polyphonic attributes of i-docs are ideal for classrooms and how she designed the site with educators in mind. She defines polyphony as the creative engagement of voices, authors and forms towards a common objective and shares the strategies and challenges of engaging her target audience—teachers invested in sustainability.

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/7097

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