[-empyre-] Viewfinders II

[Max Schleser]

Here’s just a few comments and prompts to elaborate on the Viewfinder’s post.
First of all it is great to see the FLEFF Invisible Geographies exhibition. It’s a quite inspirational space and Phillip, Gerdha and myself are excited to be part of it.
The Open Space Documentary provides a framework for the intersection between documentary and emerging media/new media/screen production. While in the latter, process driven approaches seem to be recognised, this did not seem so evident in documentary approaches. One of my projects prior to http://www.viewfinders.gallery/, was http://www.24frames24hours.org.nz/ and this would also speak to the polyphony as much as the Cs (of Circularity, Collaboration, Community, Complexity Composting, Connection, Context, Continuum, Conversation and Cost).
The AR concept explores the travel experience as a notion of an in-between state (and sometimes a state of change on various nodes in time and space). The app works like a live montage finding similar places that participants have recorded, it thus adds to the travel experience through providing new perspectives, outlooks and connections. Of course there are many reasons for travelling and moving, which needs discussion beyond this post.
RE: Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones
 Fran Edmons’s (et al.) chapter From the studio to the bush: Aboriginal young people, mobile story making and cultural connections, Patrick Kelly’s New Contextualised Perspectives: Using Bluetooth Beacons and Drones for Mixed-Reality Storytelling, Lorenzo Dalvit and Alette Schoon’ s Siyashuta! Capturing police brutality on mobile phones in South Africa, Tiago Franklin Rodrigues Lucena’s (et al.) Devising Mobile Apps: participatory design for endemic diseases transmitted by the mosquito Aedes (Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya) in Brazil or Pasifika Youth and Health Perspectives - Creative Transformation through Smartphone Filmmaking & Digital Talanoa by Ridvan Firestone and myself illustrate how implementing smartphones and storytelling can enable story-making. The theoretical approaches and engagement objectives are broad and interdisciplinary to showcase the opportunities and prospects of creative mobile media.
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