On May 5, 2017, at the Phi Centre
Future Proofing Emerging Digital Documentary Forms
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A one-day conference curated by the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Phi, in collaboration with IDFA DocLab and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
As technology rapidly advances and outdated digital platforms fall by the wayside, how do we preserve digital documentaries? What remains, and who decides? That is the central question behind Update or Die, a one-day conference and collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Documentary Lab and Phi.
Following last year's, Virtually There: Documentary Meets Virtual Reality, a conference held at MIT in collaboration with Phi, Update or Die will be held at the Phi Centre and will focus on the legacy of digital documentaries. And, perhaps more importantly, how many of these digital relics of culture and history are hurtling towards obsolescence.
Somewhat ironically, this is a problem that didn’t exist in the days of analog, or at least not in the same way. But now, a simple update on a digital platform can make a piece of content inaccessible to users. How then can media organizations, news organizations, creative companies, and non-profits ensure digital documentaries stand the test of time?
Global leaders from every realm of the digital landscape will be brought together at the Phi Centre to tackle this and other important questions, including the following:
- Professor William Uricchio, from MIT Open Documentary Lab
- Rick Prelinger, from Film & Digital Media
- Patricia Falcao, from Tate
- Nancy McGovern, from MIT Libraries
- Chance Coughenour, from Google
- Marianne Lévy-Leblond, from ARTE France
- Erwin Verbruggen, from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Jason Scott, from Internet Archive
- Christiane Paul, from the New School for Public Engagement (School of Media Studies) and the Whitney Museum of American Art
- Brett Gaylor, from Mozilla
- Caspar Sonnen, from IDFA
More panelists will be added to the list in the next few weeks.
Each ticket to Update or Die includes breakfast, lunch, the day’s panels and conference, as well as access to an exhibition. The conference will be held in English.
More details can be found at phi-centre.com
Ticket prices (taxes and fees not included):
Presale:
Adults: $250 / Students and seniors (65 and over): $225
*Available until April 14 at 11 AM
Full price:
Adults: $300 / Students and seniors (65 and over): $270
Reduced price when you purchase 4 tickets or more:
Adults: $270 / Students and seniors (65 and over): $225
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MIT Open Documentary Lab
Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling. The Lab understands documentary as a project rather than as a genre bound to a particular medium: documentary offers ways of exploring, representing, and critically engaging the world. It explores the potentials of emerging technologies and techniques to enhance the documentary project by including new voices, telling new stories and reaching new publics.
A center for documentary research, the Lab offers courses, workshops, a fellows program, public lectures, and conferences; it incubates experimental projects; and it develops tools, resources, reports, and critical discourse. These activities, and the partnerships with artists, journalists, technologists, and media makers that they have enabled, aim to push documentary’s boundaries and deepen the impact and reach of innovative reality-based storytelling. In the spirit of MIT’s open courseware and open source software movements, the Open Documentary Lab is inclusive, collaborative and committed to sharing knowledge, networks, and tools. ‘Open’ in its understanding of documentary’s forms and potentials, the Lab is catalyst, partner and guide to the future of reality-based storytelling.
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Phi
The Phi Centre is a versatile space with venues that adapt to accommodate the event at hand: launches, conferences, seminars, screenings, exhibitions, concerts, performances, interactive installations. It has creative studios and production suites equipped with the latest technology for all artistic needs. It’s a multifunctional centre where art can express itself in its various forms. It’s a space where people can exchange, learn, discover, launch, shoot, record, and more.
The Phi Centre is an initiative of Phi and its founder, Phoebe Greenberg. Phi’s mission is to provide the public with excellence in all types of art from every possible horizon.
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