Visible Evidence Forum
Includes “On Co-Creative Interlogues: Views from a Year In-Transit” and “Overture: Co-Creation Documentary during Pandemic and Protest”.
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Open Space New Media Documentary
Open Space New Media Documentary offers an essential "toolkit" for future documentary theory and practice. This inspirational book provides a vision of new approaches to nonfiction as a vital part of an expanding digital public sphere with a notion of "community" that runs from physical encounters to screen interactions and interventions.'
- Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong
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The Private Lives of Documentary
I think of co-creation as an emotional, conceptual, and ethical stance rather than a set of communication skills or methods. It is fascinating as an intentional and open process, because it eludes formulaic techniques to arrive at a desired outcome. Co-creative approaches can reveal and resist the hierarchies of power and privilege hidden in the documentary story- telling world.
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DOCUMENTARY AS A COLLECTIVE DIALOGUE? EMBRACING THIS LABOR OF LOVE
While working with my graduate students and talking about expanding our notions of what we can accomplish with documentary film, I think about this life I’ve chosen as an independent film and media artist...
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FOOD CHAINS: HARSH REALITY, SMOOTH DELIVERY
On the day after May 1, 2006 and “The Great American Boycott,” (or “El Gran Paro Estadounidense”), I walked into my local produce market to encounter the extraordinary effect of this one-day national strike...
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OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARIES
Open space documentary is an emerging framework for community-based media. Intentional participatory media experiments are proliferating across rapidly developing and evolving distribution platforms...
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DOCUMENTARY AS OPEN SPACE
Anthologized in The Documentary Film Book (BFI/Palgrave, 2013) by B. Winston.
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A Mosaic of Practices: Public Media and Participatory Culture
Once the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, had approved my proposal to begin a planned seven-year process of making a documentary about a group of women majoring in the sciences and technology at Ohio State University…