23 April 2003
About
In cooperation with the upcoming World Wide Video Festival, Mediamatic is organising a special workshop about interactive narration for video artists. In this very intensive 5-day workshop, 16 international video artists study the particular qualities of nonlinear storytelling and build their own interactive narrative. The participants use the latest version of the elegant and easy-to-use Korsakow System, developed at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Participants are not required to have specific technical know-how.
You are hereby invited to participate in this workshop. If you are interested to participate, please fill in the lines below as soon as possible en send back this email to info@korsakow.org.
If you have any questions before you decide to participate, you can call or mail kristin@mediamatic.nl 0031(0)20 638 45 34 or klaas@mediamatic.nl 0031(0)20 3446006.
www.wwvf.nl/workshop
Interactive Storytelling
In this workshop the participants study the specific possibilities offered (and questions posed by) nonlinear storytelling: how does one maintain tension in a nonlinear story? What does it mean to replace the absolute cut with the possible link? And, most importantly, how can the users' choices be integrated into the meaning of the work? In a nonlinear environment, different montages and selections of material exist parallel to each other and form each other's contexts. Nonlinear narrative environments thereby offer different ways of establishing meaning and different rhetorical possibilities.
The video material for this workshop will be collected by Mediamatic in co-operation with the World Wide Video Festival. To a limited extent, participants can also add their own material.
Korsakow System
As practical research tool the participants use the Korsakow System developed at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. The Korsakow System consists of an editing environment for nonlinear narratives, as well as an elegant presentation tool for interactive film and audio projects. The Korsakow System works with a simple but very effective database structure that allows the author to add, withdraw and rearrange material in a very efficient way.
For more information see: www.korsakow.org
Workshop Coaches
The workshop will be supervised by Mediamatic in cooperation with the UdK. The coaches are:
- Florian Thalhofer, artist and maker of the interactive documentary The Korsakow Syndrome and original builder of the Korsakow System.
- Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, organizer and coach of Mediamatic's Designing Behavior workshops. Klaas coached numerous workshops on interactive media, and lectures on new media and interactive narratives on art academies and universities.
- Professor Willem Velthoven, professor in Monomedia at the UdK and chairman of Mediamatic Foundation.
- Eight students of the UdK who are experienced Korsakow System authors will act as personal assistants to the participants in all aspects of the realisation of their projects.
Workshop Setup
The first day of the workshop introduces participants and coaches, workshop topics and setup, and materials and software. On the second day the participants train with the Korsakow System and develop rough outlines for ideas for their projects. The third and fourth day the participants build these projects, assisted by the UdK students. From the developing projects, ideas and problems are chosen to be discussed centrally. The fifth day is used to finish the projects and to do a final presentation of the work for a small invited audience. A selection of the workshop results is made for a large-scale presentation to the main audience of the World Wide Video Festival.
Date
The (closed) workshop sessions take place from 11 AM till 5 PM, Monday 12 till Friday May 16 at the Passenger Terminal, Oostelijke Handelskade, Amsterdam.
The results of the workshop will be presented to the public on Saturday May 17.
For more information:
World Wide Video Festival
Keizersgracht 462
1016 GE Amsterdam
P: +31 (0)20 420 77 29
F: +31 (0)20 421 38 28
E: wwvf@wwvf.nl
W: www.wwvf.nl
