i-Docs and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) will collaborate to present “i-Docs and More-Than-Human Encounters” on March 25 at 12:00 p.m.. This highly interactive, discussion-driven event features the three curators of i-Docs—Mandy Rose, Sandra Gaudenzi, and Judith Aston—discussing at a variety of ideas and projects across many platforms including Instagram, AR, VR, legacy film, i-Docs, animal-cams, social media, and more.
i-Docs is for people involved with or interested in interactive and immersive documentary, called “i-docs” – a term coined by Sandra Gaudenzi, one of the co-founders of the i-Docs project. The website is a space for news, analysis, and dialogue between practitioners, researchers, students and enthusiasts. The website is run on a community model and welcomes practice-based explorations as well as theoretical academic work and dissemination of research.
The i-Docs website is one arm of the i-Docs project which is a research strand within the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE Bristol. i-Docs began with a Symposium—the first dedicated to interactive documentary—convened by Judith Aston, Jon Dovey, and Sandra Gaudenzi in March 2011. Four further i-Docs Symposia have since been held (with Mandy Rose included as convenor), in 2012, 2014, 2016, and the most recently in March 2018. Alongside the symposium and website, i-Docs also runs a range of events.
