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'Somewhere between here and there, narrativas contadas narrativas
vividas' experiments with aesthetic and theoretical forms assigned to
the documentary genre. It also focuses on the potential of stories
linked through software devices, when computers are added to the
storytelling process, through algorithms applied to an array of
elements [images, audio and video segments] stored in a database.
People from diverse contexts were interviewed and videoed exploring
their psychological and physical journeys. Investigating spaces,
experiences and struggles surrounding migration, it portrays the
perception of the migrant experience by migrants themselves as a
complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Migrants become the historians
of their own lives with their own voices.
As well as documenting stories, the work allows to create associations
within those stories and other visual material combined 'on the fly',
generating a range of alternative frameworks. These frameworks are
dynamically generated based on the interaction between the
author’s definitions, the choices of the navigator and the
matching algorithm embedded in the program. Unlike a traditional
documentary, there are deviations in story directions. The author does
not solely control "what happens next”; instead, that task is for
the machine and the audience to navigate together.
After Felberbaum [based in London] received a Fellowship from Nesta an
Argentinean IT team [based in Buenos Aires] joined her led by Jose
Broide as IT Project Manager. They collaborated throughout the software
development stage creating their own tool through distance working. A
virtual collaboration environment allowed them to work across the
Atlantic, generating another dimension to the experience of working in
a team, exploring new situations offered by globalization and
technology.
team:
ar-t-uk
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