[ecrea] CONFERENCE OCT 23-25: Interactive Narratives, New Media and Social Engagement -- University of Toronto

INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES

NEW MEDIA AND

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

International Conference


@interactiveUofT



October 23-25, 2014

University of Toronto



Free Attendance




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



10:20-12:10 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 Netherlands) - 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 and Ph.D. Candidate, Social 
Psychology - Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy)



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

Hudson Moura
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of Toronto
73 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1K7
Tel: 416-585-4442
http://www.spanport.utoronto.ca/faculty/moura
(hudson.moura /at/ utoronto.ca)




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