Expanding the Documentary: New Media and the Digital Documentary :: October 14, 2011; 9:00 am – 10:00 pm :: SUNY, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY :: Registration required.

Artists, in recent years, have pioneered forms of interactive, environmental, and database art that document socio-political, cultural, and natural phenomena that were once the purview of the film and video documentary. While film and video had the ability to collect, record, narrate, and argue about the historical world, expanded documentarians utilize the full palette of digital media in order to engage audiences, participants, and users in the production, archiving, and mapping of the real. Interactive and multimedia works implicate spectators in the production of information and arguments about the world, foregrounding the public nature of the construction of knowledge.

Participants include: Steve Dietz, Andrea Grover, Ryan Griffis, Mark Shepard, Benj Gerdes, Stephanie Rothenberg, Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Millie Chen, Skip Blumberg, Zabet Patterson, Josh Tonsfeldt, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Amir Husak, Samara Smith and Jeremiah Teipen.

Panels will be moderated by artists and scholars with active participation and discussion by all attendees.

Expanding the Documentary: New Media and the Digital Documentary is a one-day conference with accompanying exhibition organized by the School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York.

There will be an accompanying exhibition at The Passage Gallery, Purchase College.

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