If you’re in NYC on May 1, check out I’m not a documentary but I play one on the internet: a panel on interactive documentary

Sunday, May 1 at 7:30pm $9 suggested donation.

Artists Florian Thalhofer, Fred Ritchin, and Jonathan Harris present for discussion along with curators Hanne-Lovise Skartveit and André Valentim Almeida.

Documentary filmmakers are seizing the opportunity to use emerging technologies and expand their linear films into digital platforms to engage with audiences in new ways. In this panel, meet three of the most exciting experts on the subject who have cultivated and perfected the interactive, digital form as their primary way of representing reality: Berlin-based media artist Florian Thalhofer, maker of online documentaries and the creator of the Korsakow System -a leading software for the creation of nonlinear documentaries-; Jonathan Harris, award winning artist behind the We Feel Fine project with a mission to find ways for technology to deepen our understanding of ourselves and our lives; and Fred Ritchin, Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, author of After Photography, and director of PixelPress. The panel will be moderated by Hanne-Lovise Skartveit, film producer with a PhD on Interactive and Hybrid documentary forms. The panel will explore different forms of “Interactive Documentary”, show examples, and discuss the possibilities and limits of the formats, including funding, audiences and distribution. An event curated by Andre Valentim Almeida and Hanne-Lovise Skartveit.