[ecrea] Smart Storytelling Day: Symposium & Showcase

Call for papers & project presentations
Smart Storytelling Day
Symposium & Showcase
#MINA2018: Towards a Theory & Practice of Smart Storytelling
Special Issue in Studies in Documentary Film journal
(MSchleser /at/ swin.edu.au)
MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro) creates 
connections between communities, creative industries & content production.
Following on from the successful symposium in 2016, we are excited to 
announce the 7th Mobile Innovation and Mobile Creativity symposium at 
Swinburne University of Technology alongside the 8th International 
Mobile, Pocket and Smartphone film Screening in November 2018.
Smart Storytelling embraces the potential for opening storytelling to 
new forms and formats. In an inclusive, dynamic and provocative 
environment this symposium is focused on exploring developments towards 
generative storytelling and its implications for re-shaping screen-based 
practices of storytelling.
How do these developments reconfigure relationships between the 
disciplines in creative arts?
How do they (re-)define the engagement of collaborators, from 
participants to audiences?
Smart Storytelling leverages contemporary digital transformations in 
Screen Production, Digital Media and the Creative Arts. The last five 
years have seen intense investment from technology giants such as Adobe, 
Alphabet, Apple and Facebook into Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality 
(MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) as connectivity hubs in the mediascape. 
These are in turn prompting new processes and creative workflows. 
Accessible AR is positioned as offering the potential to transform any 
space into a storytelling canvas, while VR is discussed as an ‘empathy 
machine’ in news and research labs. Smartphones are claimed to enable 
VR/AR for the masses in the production as well as in the viewing 
experience. Developments towards industry 4.0 (including analytics, 
algorithms and automation) and ongoing digital transformations continue 
to disrupt creative industries to produce new business models, 
production environments and distribution channels. Within this context 
one can point at IBM’s editing of the Morgan trailer or Adobe’s mobile 
app strategy that launched a suite of creative mobile apps. Transmedia 
storytelling and cross-media dissemination have exposed more dynamic 
approaches towards storytelling and story-making generated from a 
capacity to creatively engage audiences. As much as innovation occurred 
in the production process we are interested to investigate the 
exhibition and dissemination via the potential of block chain and smart 
contracts; this call is interested in the ramifications of these for 
non-fiction, documentary making, experimental film, moving-image and the 
creative arts more generally.
The symposium will explore novel forms and new formats of non-fiction 
and documentary relating to community engagement and creative 
transformations. It will include recent developments in the creative 
industries embracing:
-    Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) 
in the context of non-fiction storytelling
-    AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its aesthetic implications
-    Cellphilm theory and practice contexts
-    Database storytelling
-    i-docs (interactive documentary)
-    Refinements of mobile-mentary (mobile documentary)
-    Software culture
This call is interested in creative transformations in storytelling. We 
see narrative and non-narrative methods as innovation sandboxes to 
illuminate community engagement and creative transformation.
As in previous years, we aim for a combination of theoretical and 
creative practice research explorations responding to and interacting 
with the opportunities and potential of emerging media and screen 
production. Presentations and showcases can include work-in-progress, 
project presentations, academic papers and conceptual provocations or 
pose questions at the intersection of storytelling and screen 
production. We welcome proposals for workshops to run in conjunction 
with the Smart Storytelling Day.
Paper & project abstracts will be double blind peer reviewed. We accept 
video papers but require presenters to join a Q&A session via Adobe Connect.
Selected papers will be published in Special Issue in Studies in 
Documentary Film journal
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdf20/current.
Studies in Documentary Film is the first refereed scholarly journal 
devoted to the history, theory, criticism and practice of documentary film.
Submission via:
http://bit.ly/smartstorytelling2018
by 21st September 2018
(link without bit.ly)
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=eXV_35w-fkq4REICgPU4Wcc8W0c50p9NqUBcn0ErK-dUNUJTQjZVQVpXNFNJTEVNRlRGMkhDR0VEMi4u
Program will be announced on the 22nd October 2018.
More information about the Mobile Innovation Network & Association, 
MINA, see MediaNZ Digital Communities issue 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/medianz-vol16iss1id200) or a short trailer 
of the #MINA2016 symposia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZySq4g1OU
Contact: (MSchleser /at/ swin.edu.au) | (Max /at/ mina.pro)
MINA
www.mina.pro
MINA Symposium and Screening is supported by Social Innovation Research 
Institute at Swinburne University of Technology

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