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EVENT
TECHNOLOGY WEB/MOBILE FILM TV/RADIO NEW MEDIA
(UN)FAMILIAR INTERACTIONS
EXHIBITION
THU AUGUST 6 FRI

AUGUST 28
Gallery
910pm
Regular
FREE
NOTE
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opening, with artists in attendance!
The entertainment landscape has changed drastically inside of the last few years.
While the old standbys movies, television, and games still remain, the
connectivity and interactivity that the internet provides has opened up new
opportunities for both storytellers and viewers to engage with one another in
ways no one could have imagined. No one has to remain a passive participant
stories are becoming collaborations, with the creators content being shaped by
viewer input.
(un)Familiar Interactions will highlight five interactive, web-based creations, from
the impending technological doom of Body/Mind/Change and Swartzshield, to
exploratory journeys Lahore Landing and Southside Stories as well as the
sentimental examination, The Story Of The Stuff, the show seeks to demonstrate
the depth of this new mode of storytelling thats still being defined even as we
speak.
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Featured Projects
Body/Mind/Change
Body/Mind/Change, the digital extension of TIFFs exhibition David Cronenberg:

Evolution, immerses audiences in a Cronenbergian world inspired by the film
Videodrome, re-imagined for the 21st century and brought to life across three
platforms the Web, mobile and the real world.
Produced by CFC Media Lab, in co-production with TIFF, and starring David
Cronenberg, Body/Mind/Change is the first Web interactive experience that
generates a 3D-printed object based on data collected from the player.
Lahore Landing
Lahore Landing is an interactive documentary on another side of Pakistan.

The project was started by Taahira Ayoob (producer), Jeremy Ho (director),
Jemimah Seow (art & design) and Andre He (director of photography), four
students from Singapore who were in Lahore from late November of 2014 to late
January of 2015.
When the team came and Pakistanis asked them about why they were there, they
introduced their project as such, and often got a bemused look and one reply:
"there is no other side"
It all started when Taahira went to Karachi for a journalism internship. Over Skype
calls, she shared her experiences from underground indie rock concerts to
alfresco BBQ nights. It surprised everyone. It seemed that all the media shared
about life in Pakistan was a world of violence and terrorism when it was a lot more
than that. As media students, they saw a communication problem an information
asymmetry that needed to be questioned.
This is that journey. The narrator that brings you through the website is a
consolidated entity conflating their shared experiences, the progress from
perception to realization.
Swartzshield
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Swartzshield is an immersive web experience halfway between interactive

storytelling and gaming, The story is inspired by current topics such as
surveillance, privacy and censorship on the internet.
Notorious hacker Swartzshield discovers a secret project by the Governments
Department of Civil Data Administration named Gepetto, and is caught by the
enemy. The players have to help him escape, and to do so, they have to discover
all the secrets behind the project in an extremely dangerous operation.
Swartzshield is a project created by Spektor Storytelling. Spektor is a digital
agency based in Amsterdam that creates transmedia stories and user experiences
to engage audiences for companies, NGOs and brands. for this project they
worked together with adaptive music composer Claynote, web developer Peakfijn
and students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Southside Stories
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Southside Stories is an immersive audio walk into the Southside of Williamsburg,

EVENTS The
CLASSES
ABOUT the long-term
Searchresidents from the community.
Brooklyn.
walk features
Discover how residents are preserving a sense of identity, community and
connection to "home" amid exponentially rising rents and a landscape rapidly
undergoing transformation. Through the walk's 35-minute route, participants
unravel the stories of people and places. These stories from residents are
peppered with instructions for audience members to take off their headphones, go
into businesses and interact with locals. The experience encourages a
reinvigorated sense of discovery and responsibility in participants' relationship
with the city.
Directed by Shannon Carroll. This project is part of Living Los Sures, a UnionDocs
Collaborative Production.
The Story Of The Stuff

An investigation into Americas obsession with temporary memorials, THE STORY
OF THE STUFF is a web documentary that tracks what happens to more than half
a million letters, 65,000 teddy bears, and hundreds of thousands of other
packages, donations, and condolence items sent to Newtown, Connecticut, in the
wake of the Sandy Hook School shooting.
A native of Joelton, Tennessee, Ashley Maynor has previously been a Visiting
Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech and a production mentor for Stony Brook
University's MFA in Film program.
She is a past recipient of the Sundance Institute's Sheila C. Johnson Creative
Producing Fellowship and the American Library Association's Justin Winsor Prize.
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In 2015, she was named one of "10 to Watch" byIndependent Magazine.

Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Independent
Filmmaker Project (IFP), the Austin Film Society, the Southern Humanities Media
Fund, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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