INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES NEW MEDIA AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

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First Day – Thursday Evening – October 23rd

Media Commons Theatre Robarts Library (3rd Floor)

130 St George St, Toronto (St. George Subway Station)

18:30-19:00 Registration

19:00-19:30 Opening Remarks

19:30-20:30 Crowdsourcing Documentary Making: Social Protest, Social Media and Engagement – Greg Elmer (Ryerson University)

Special Screening: Preempting Dissent (2014, 41’)

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 Second Day – Friday – October 24th

Room 119 – Emmanuel College

75 Queens Park Crescent E, Toronto (Museum Subway Station)

10:00-10:20 Registration & Coffee

10:20-12:00 Panel 1: New Narratives and Self-Interactivity

Moderator: Hudson Moura (Chair, Organizing Committee)

Florian Hadler & Daniel Irrgang (University of Arts Berlin, Germany) – Nonlinearity, Multilinearity, Simultaneity. Notes on Epistemological Structures

Tom Van Nuenen (Tilburg University, The Nederlands) – Journey as a post-literary travel tale.

Kris Fallon (UC Davis, USA) – Streams of the Self: The Instagram Feed as Narrative Autobiography

Siobhan O’Flynn (University of Toronto) – Narrative Strategies and Participatory Design: Framing New Methodologies for Narrative Studies

12:10-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:20 Panel 2: Social and Interactive Multimedia Projects

Moderator: Martin Zeilinger (OCAD University, Canada)

Heidi Rae Cooley & Duncan Buell (University of South Carolina, USA) – From Ghosts of the Horseshoe to Ward One: Critical Interactives for Inviting Social Engagement with Instances of Historical Erasure (Columbia, South Carolina)

Rafael Antunes (Universidade Lusófona, Portugal) – Blue Pencil: Experiences in Transmedia

Mariana Ciancia, Francesca Piredda & Simona Venditti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) – Shaping and Sharing Imagination: Designers and the transformative power of stories.

Coffee Break (20’)

15:40-17:00 Panel 3: Documentary and Social Interactivity

Moderator: Robert Davidson (U. of Toronto, Canada)

Ben Lenzner (University of Waikato, New Zealand) – Emerging Forms of Citizen Video Activism: Challenges in Documentary Storytelling & Sustainability

Begoña Gonzalez Cuesta (IE University – Madrid, Spain) – I-Docs and New Narratives: Meaning Making in Highrise

Janice Xu (Holy Family University, USA) – Telling the Stories of Left-behind Children in China: From Diary Collection to Digital Filmmaking

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Third Day – Saturday – October 25th

Room 119 – Emmanuel College

75 Queens Park Crescent E, Toronto (Museum Subway Station)

10:30-12:00 Panel 4: Remediation, Art and Activism

Moderator: Marta Marín-Dòmine (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

Benj Gerdes (Long Island University – Post, USA) – Broken Screens
(and the Publics who don’t view them)

Isabella Trindade (Ryerson University, Canada) – In-between: between the concrete and the virtual, the physical and the imaginary

Charo Lacalle (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) – Analysing women’s web comments on television fiction

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:20 Panel 5: Film and Interactive Narratives

Moderator: David Sweeney (The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland)

Sandra Lim (Ryerson University, Canada) – Xapiri: at the juncture of history, experience, and technology

Kalli Paakspuu (York University, Canada) – Off the Wall with Shchedryk

Alexandre Coronato Rodrigues & Roselita Lopes de Almeida Freitas (ESPM – São Paulo, Brazil) – Collective Authorship In Real Time

Coffee Break (20’)

15:40-17:00 Panel 6: Theatre, Multimedia and New Narratives

Moderator: Sandra Lim (Ryerson University, Canada)

David Sweeney (The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland) – Crossing Boundaries: National Theatre Live, Backstage Access and Maximum Visibility

Daisy Abbott (The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland) – Old plays, New Narratives: Fan Production of New Media Texts from Broadcast Theatre

Aida Jordão (York University, Canada) – Inês de Castro on YouTube: Re-gendered Narratives

17:00-17:20 Closing Remarks

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Organizing Committee:

Hudson Moura (Chair) (Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto)

Ricardo Sternberg (Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto)

Regina Cunha (Ph.D. Candidate, Communication & Society Research Centre – CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Cecília Queiroz (Director, BRAFFTV-Brazilian Film and TV Festival of Toronto)

Organizers:

Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto

BRAFFTV-Brazilian Film and TV Festival of Toronto

Sponsors:

Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto

Office of the Principal – Victoria College



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