Harvard’s Bok Center, the MIT OpenDocLab, Camden International Film Festival, and the MIT Center for Civic Media are joining forces for a weekend long hackathon in Boston in Autumn, 2016. The hackathon brings together designers, creative technologists, engineers, data scientists and filmmakers interested in cross-platform, interdisciplinary storytelling. The first Datalore Hackathon took place in January 2015 (see video below).
Over the course of 48 hours, teams will brainstorm and prototype an interactive narrative experience that tells a story with data, around data, or about data. It could be a data visualization on the web, a physical installation using hardware and human bodies, or an interactive documentary experience.
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We live in a world that is increasingly shaped by our interaction with data, which is increasingly complex, large and accessible to few. We want to create a space for investigating the narratives that emerge from quantitative spaces so they are accessible and engaging.
We’re looking for filmmakers, artists, designers, developers, engineers, scientists, scholars, researchers, journalists, and storytellers to join interdisciplinary teams of 4-5 people, which we will curate. Each team will start with a primary dataset that drives their story-making. If you want to participate on a team and explore creative data-driven storytelling, apply here.
If you are currently working with a dataset that you want to use to tell a story, you can apply with that dataset here. The data can be qualitative or quantitative. It can be drawn from your research, an open archive, census or government data, or some other source.
If you just want to participate on a team and explore creative datadriven storytelling, apply here.
The application period will open in late 2015. If you have questions, please email datalore-team@mit.edu.
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Nadja is a scientist, producer and doc filmmaker who likes to bring art into quantitative spaces. She is currently a senior producer of editorial video at Mashable in NYC. She created and produced the interactive, multimedia The Fundamentals of Neuroscience at Harvard. She graduated from MIT with a BS in Neuroscience and has studied film, archaeology and paleoanthropology.
@nadjao
Sean Flynn is a documentary producer and festival programmer. He is the Director of the Points North Documentary Forum at Camden International Film Festival and a researcher at MIT's Open Documentary Lab, where he is currently pursuing a master's degree.
@seanflynnfilm
Heather Craig recently completed her graduate studies at at MIT's Center for Civic Media and Comparative Media Studies program.
Johnathan Carr is an award-winning filmmaker, media designer, and native of Greater Boston. He has made over a hundred film & video productions from all sides of the camera, and since 2010 has worked with the American Repertory Theater as their resident filmmaker. Johnathan has also designed media projection for numerous live productions in New York and Boston including last year's Tony Award-winning Pippin.
Dalia Othman is a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Center for Civic Media. Recently, Dalia’s research has focused on online civic engagement in the Arab World and media discourse. Her work has also focused on forms of digital storytelling and storytelling through data that promotes socio-political change. Her work on NetStories.org aims to help communities and journalists find the best online tools to tell their stories.
@daliaothman