DiD paper presentation at #IFM Conference 2023
„Collaboration & Co-Creative Media Making in Precarious Times“
From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern & Matters of Care
This video-essay – „Collaboration & Co-Creative Media Making in Precarious Times“ – is based on a paper presented at #IFM conference 2023.
This presentation is part of the #IFM2023Conference – 5th Interactive Film and Media Virtual Conference – June 7-9, 2023.
Collaboration & Co-Creative Media Making in Precarious Times
From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern & Matters of Care
Anna Wiehl
University of Bayreuth
Abstract
This contribution fathoms the potential of collaborative, co-creative media practices in precarious times – in times of climate emergency and a terrifying loss of biodiversity, accompanied by socio-psychological and socio-cultural crises. It is set in times in which, despite the urgency to react, we are still often facing a lack of comprehension for the complex global dimension of these crises, accompanied with a paralysing apathy, passive-depressive resignation and sometimes even a refusal to face collective and individual accountability as well as respond in actual doing to the urgent call to action.
Through the lens of these features, different strategies of how to mobilize user-participants will be discussed, focussing on different venues to encourage an empathetic idea of local as well global consciousness, care and emotional engagement – an approach which goes beyond top-down communication of (scientific) facts but which encourages creative communal action-taking. As paradigmatic projects, we will examine The Disaster Resilience Journal (2014) and ISeeChange (2019) – both of them being multilayered configurations building on various activities around ‚doing documentary‘. It will be discussed how interdependent entanglements of agents in these two projects aim at catalysing meaningful place-based environmental engagement, including community-based citizen-science driven action-taking but at the same time experiences that go beyond cognitive understanding.
https://journals.library.torontomu.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/IFM2023