Media Co-creation, with Katerina Cizek from MIT's Open Documentary Lab
#WeMakeMedia
a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.
#WeMakeMedia Season 2: New and Digital Literacies
Episode 3: Media Co-creation, with Katerina Cizek
In this episode I speak with Emmy-award winning web documentarian Katerina Cizek about her research with the Co-creation Studio at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and 209 report titled Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms.
We discuss how collective practices surface issues of agency and equity; human intelligence being but one part of the larger planetary puzzle; and how media literacy might be the best way to address the epistemological times we are living in.
Katerina Cizek is a Canadian documentary director and a pioneer in digital documentaries. She is the Artistic Director, Co-Founder and Executive Producer of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). From 2008-2015, Cizek directed the National Film Board of Canada's Highrise series on life in residential skyscrapers, including the 2010 world's first 360 degree web documentary Out My Window, winner of the inaugural IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and an International Digital Emmy for best digital program: non-fiction, and the 2011 webdoc One Millionth Tower, which lets users explore a highrise complex in 3D virtual space, as Toronto residents re-imagine their neighborhood.
Also, learn more about her documentary Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News in a blog I wrote about documentaries to watch in media literacy classroom contexts.
Katerina on twitter : @katciz
To learn more about Kat’s work: https://arts.mit.edu/artists/katerina-cizek/
Show notes and related links:
High Rise (Out My Window) web documentary - http://highrise.nfb.ca/
MIT Open Documentary Lab - http://opendoclab.mit.edu/
Co-creation Studio at MIT - https://cocreationstudio.mit.edu/
Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms - https://cmsw.mit.edu/collective-wisdom-co-creating-media-within-communities-across-disciplines-and-with-algorithms/
Petroglyphs in Gobustan - Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, UNESCO,
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1076/
Detroit Narrative Agency - Allied Media Conference, https://alliedmedia.org/projects/detroit-narrative-agency
Grace Lee Boggs - Rest in Power Grace Lee Boggs, American Revolutionary Film, https://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com/
Google Sidewalk Labs - https://www.sidewalklabs.com/
Jason E. Lewis - https://jasonlewis.org
More on Jason E.Lewis’ work in Part 6: Media Co-Creation with Non-Human Systems - https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/collective-wisdom-part-6/release/1?source=post_page
Blackfoot philosopher Leroy Little Bear - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Little_Bear
Witness: see it. film it. change it. - witness.org
OpenDoc Lab MIT Co creation lab every Tuesday webinars - https://www.glunis.com/XX/Unknown/545983178790726/MIT-Open-Documentary-Lab