DIGI DOCS : Think Tank

Friday, 15 March 10am - 5pm	10am - 11am: ABC/AFC online documentary case study Sohail Dahdal (Director, Goldie Dahdal New Media) David Goldie (Director, Goldie Dahdal New Media) Domenic Friguglietti (New Media, ABC) Peter Kaufmann (Project Manager, Film Development, AFC) 11.15am - 1.15pm: Interactivity: the 3rd arm of broadcasting Kim Anderson (Digital Services Director, 9) Will Berryman (Head of New Media, SBS) Mark Cloudsdale (General Manager, Digital Content and Creative Services, Seven Network Australia) David Lane (New Media Regional Editor, ABC) 2pm - 3:15pm: What content should be funded? Daryl Dellora (Documentary Consultant, SBS Independent) Mike McGraw (Managing Director, Massive Interactive) Julianne Pierce (Executive Director, ANAT) Vicki Sowry (Director, MRC) David Tiley (Accord Manager, Digital Media Fund, Film Victoria) Chris Warner (AFC Broadband Content Fund Consultant, AFC) 3:30pm - 5pm: Content rights and distribution opportunities Marcus Gillezeau (Director, Firelight Productions) Susan MacKinnon (Documentary Investment Manager, FFC) Suzy Peters (Business Affairs, ABC) Domenic Friguglietti (New Media, ABC) buy tickets online now

Friday, 15 March 8.30pm - 9.30pm	Sara Diamond, Director New Media, Banff Centre for the Arts & award winning film maker Peter Wintonick give an introduction to what they will present the following day. It includes a case study presentation from Peter Wintonick entitled "Seeing is Believing - crossing the digital divide with Witness, etc." and a showcase of a projects from the U.K., 'Sweethearts' and 'Kidnap'. buy tickets online now

Saturday, 16 March 10am - 5pm	Sara and Peter present an in-depth workshop of online documentary and short films made for the Internet from around the world. Project from the States, Canada, U.K. and more. Australian Panelists will join Sara and Peter in a couple of sessions during the day. There will be room for project analysis sessions with Sara Diamond and Peter Wintonick and pitching opportunities throughout. 10:20 - 11:35 PANEL ONE: PARTICIPATORY DESIGN/PARTICIPATORY CULTURES Sports, live experience and mediated documentary Racing on line and in the water - http://www.volvooceanrace.org/homepage.html Performance/documentaries/situationist events example, "Can You See Me Now?" - http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/group.html Collaborative story telling/social movements - talk by documaker Shikha Jhinjan Internet radio - http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/Aboriginal_Arts/sleepingbuffalo Aboriginal radio - http://www.airos.org/ Collaborative story telling for wars, heroism, memory - Vietnam memorial site http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/ Collaborative journalism - http://www.madmundo.com http://www.articlez.fr http://www.360degrees.org Participatory moderation - Slashdot is a web magazine on contemporary issues http://slashdot.org/ Best made mass site - http://www.bbc.co.uk Online digest on new media - http://www.metamute.com/events/diamond.htm Jewish Museum of SF-excellent overview of sites - http://www.jmsf.org/ Some of the sites WebLab participants have suggested - http://enviscan.weblab.org/enviscan_beta/ Other streamed media example - http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au Radio Event Horizon with good references - http://networklucidity.com/radio/ Streaming radio sites - http://stereopublic.va.com.au/RIT/ 11:50-1:00 PANEL TWO: SPECTACLE! FROM VERITE TO SURVEILLANCE TO SURVIVOR Surveillance Societies - http://www.earthcam.com/ CyberMan by Peter Lynch Steve Mann and self-surveillance - Internet site to go http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/secure/corridor/sec1.html Secret Agent Project-looking at Surveillance and agency - http://digitalmedia.berkeley.edu/shawn/art.page.secret.html India and use of surveillance as a political tool Excerpt from War and Peace Video the Example of Teleka video net Clandestine web journalism Adrienne Wortzel, decoy, and surveillance town re: war - http://artnetweb.com/camouflagetown/index1.html VERITE: Peter Wintonick's Verite excerpt John Lennon AI project, really interesting ideas about AI, life continuing, heroism and spectacle - http://www.triumphpc.com/johnlennon/ Smart Hearts- http://www.the-loop.com/smarthearts http://www.big-brother.nl http://www.bigbrother.com.au http://www.ninemsn.com.au/survivor http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features Reworking Reality TV http://www.somewhere.org.uk/broadcast by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie Blast Theory Desert Rain, unpacking spectacle and war and CNN - http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/work_desertrain.html 2:00 - 3:15 PANEL THREE: TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER-ACTIVISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS Tactical Media http://www.b92.net Pro-democracy movements and tactical media - http://www.bignoisefilms.com and http://www.universalrights.net/ Video clip from Guerrilla News - http://www.GuerrillaNews.com http://www.freespeech.org Witness Video compilation-intro - http://www.witness.org Activist practice moves from video to the net - slow to migrate but excellent examples of taking back media control 30 years of active media making - http://www.greenpeace.org THE guide to independent and resistant media praxis - http://www.indymedia.org/ Web as Outreach - AIDS education - http://www.steps.co.za Intervention-reworking systems- http://irational.org Game to educate about globalization - http://www.globalarcade.org/home.html RtMark Video tape - http://www.RtMark.com/ Data Base Activism-creating resources for new media, activism and histories - http://www.worldlinktv.com CAAMA-data base history structures - satellites to digital - Central Australia aboriginal media association, Alice Springs CAAMA productions: from satellites to music recording to docs to grass-roots distance learning one of the world's largest full spectrum Aboriginal owned and controlled media group TVE Television trusts for the environment - http://www.tve.org OneWorld website - http://www.oneworld.net/ A huge database archive of resistant media - http://www.undercurrents.org 3:30 - 4:40 PANEL FOUR: DISRUPTIVE AGENCY Melinda Rackham's site, documentary meet information, meets art - http://www.subtle.net/ Francesca da Rimini - http://sysx.org/gashgirl/ http://www.zefrank.com Docusoap D-Life with Natacha Merritt - http://www.heavy.com Survivors of the Shoah by Visual History Foundation (collective autobiographies) - http://www.vhf.org http://www.pbs.org/weblab/lovestories Disruptive Softwares - Rewriting how we understand technologies and ourselves - http://www.yhchang.com/ and http://www.mongrelx.org/Project/index.html Software that analyses your hard drive as an autobiographical space - http://www.maryflanagan.com/virus.htm Rewriting memory - http://www.impermanenceagent.com/agent/index.html Collage Machine - newsagent - Mark Napier - Headline morphing machine - http://www.potatoland.org/ Game of identifying and creating flags - http://netflag.guggenheim.org/netflag/ Brain mapping software - http://www.plumbdesign.com/products/thinkmap Sara Diamond - Chat and discussion groups - creating personal and social identities - http://www.codezebra.net Overview of Walker gallery site with artists work and disruptive - http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html EAT show - http://www.walkerart.org/salons/eat/index.html 4:40 - 5:00 FINAL DISCUSSION buy tickets online now

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