Dr. Greg Elmer Lectures at the University of Salford, Manchester

Dr. Greg Elmer [1],
Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the Infoscape research
lab at the Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, will deliver a guest
lecture entitled:

“Open Source Video: Testing the Limits of Participatory Media Making“

Abstract

This presentation discusses an open source project that creatively
uses emerging collaborative video production tools to examine the
possibility of producing an organic documentary, a living document that
can offer counter narratives to a culture of governmental secrecy
produced by the on-going “war on terror”. This project’s research will
be set directly and actively within the process of creating a dynamic
(meaning “re-mixable) documentary film that tackles the pressing
contemporary issues of security and surveillance using
recently-developed collaborative and open source filmmaking techniques.
The documentary video itself will be continuously updated and
reassembled by various production communities – it is not simply a
creative project built by a single group over a set timeframe, rather
it is a documentary that any number of production communities can take
part in, add to and sustain over many years. This project is guided by
the belief that the act of creating itself is a form of inquiry and a
form of knowledge creation that produces creative tools, methods,
content and research outcomes.
You can also follow prof. Greg Elmer on Twitter [2]

If you are interested in attending this talk, or for more information, please contact Dr. Yuwei Lin [3] at Y.Lin@salford.ac.uk [4]