Katerina Cizek, Visiting Artist
Enrollment: Please submit the following form: http://goo.gl/6AanUQ
Limited to 21 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Explore how technology enables new forms of storytelling and public engagement.
This 4 day workshop, intended for anyone with an interest in collaborative storytelling and innovative research methods, will cover participatory methods, social and digital tools, and best practices in cross-disciplinary approaches of digital documentary.
The workshop covers the basics of building media projects with partners that aim to change worldviews, lives, policies, conditions, and tell good stories too. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn about proven methods, projects and experiences, and we’ll brainstorm your own ideas and projects to develop concrete strategic plans.
You’ll focus on:
Developing deep partnerships/collaborations
Reviewing the scope of what's possible in digital storytelling
Turning ideas into awesome projects
Identifying political and social goals
Understanding audiences and communities
Telling hyper-local documentary stories with universal appeal
Web-docs 101 - where to start
Creative financing and outreach
Sustainability
The mornings will feature lectures, screening and presentations: Visiting Artist Kat Cizek will share research findings and tool-kits around ethics and methodologies from over 8 years of practice, including the most recent project, a collaboration with the New York Times, “A Short History of the Highrise.” The afternoons feature structured break outs into small groups to discuss/develop your own ideas for collaborative projects.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Office of the Arts
Contact: Meg Rotzel, mrotzel@mit.edu
| Jan/27 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E15-335 |
| Jan/28 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E15-335 |
| Jan/29 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E15-335 |
| Jan/30 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E15-335 |
Katerina Cizek - Visiting Artist
| Jan/27 | Mon | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-335 |
| Jan/28 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-335 |
| Jan/29 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-335 |
| Jan/30 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-335 |
Katerina Cizek - Visiting Artist