02/20 Capturing Conflict: visually powerful yet steeped in meaning - Blogarticle media and learning
Sometimes, pictures can change everything.
We had just returned from our field productions in Guatemala and Nigeria with some of our local and Swiss research colleagues, where we tried to capture their research into social conflict on camera.
Once the film stills from our co-production process of “Inequality and Conflict – Beyond us and Them” were printed on paper and lying on a table in the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Headquarters in Bern, Switzerland, the discussions of our researchers started to shift fundamentally.
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01/20 Trailer Swiss Sustainability research Initiative
This video presents the Sustainability Research Initiative (SRI) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT). The SRI aims at promoting research for sustainable development in Switzerland. It is realized in collaboration with our partner institutions at the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Sustainability Research Initiative Swiss Academy of Sciences, SCNAT sustainability.scnat.ch Twitter: @SRInitiative_CH
01/20 SCiences - Arts: Theorie und Praxis aus einer Wissenschaftlich-Filmischen Perspektive
Impulsvortrag an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Luzern zum Thema einer Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis in der gestalterischen-wissenschaftlichen Lehre.
11/19 Immersion, Simulation, Exploration: VR-360 für ein forschendes Lernen
360-Videos in Virtual Reality (VR-360) bietet einen neuen Zugang für investigative Explorationen, der neue Welten für forschendes Lernen eröffnen kann.
VR-360 basiert medial betrachtet auf audio- und visuellen Daten, welche je nach technologischen und ästhetischen Entscheidungen eine veränderte "Realität" darstellen und Einfluss auf die
Immersionserfahrung einnehmen kann.
Die damit einhergehenden audiovisuellen, medialen Transformationsprozesse resultieren in einem veränderten Prozess des forschenden Lernens. Um dabei wissenschaftliche Validität zu erhalten,
müssen diese jedoch kritisch reflektiert werden. Diese mediale Reflexion benötigt Skills, welche in einer multidisziplinären Umgebung erlernt werden müssen. Da audiovisuell-mediale Fertigkeiten
sich fundamental von den üblichen akademischen Methoden des Umgangs mit Text unterscheiden, ist für diesen Prozess ein Co-Design mit Mediendesignern und Boundary Spanners unabdingbar.
@Campus Innovation Hamburg, November 2019
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11/19 geneva Peace week: Research Documentary premiere
Our full-lenght research documentary "Inequality and Conflict - beyond us and them" will have the premiere at the Geneva Peace Week, Cinemas du Grütli, Geneva, 4.11.2019.
10/19 Keynote: ein Fenster in die Welt des Lehrenden
Keynote at "Tag der Lehre", Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Thanks for the questions and inputs!
From Leiden University to ETH Zurich
New perspective: Change of my university affiliation from the Centre for Innovation at Leiden University, The Hague Netherlands to the Educational Development and Technology of ETH Zurich.
06/19 Pre-screening SDC Network
Towards aiming to bridge the difficult gap between research and policy makers: "audiovisual data" - such as film can be - a boundary object, to not only translate research into another language, but also a further step into new ways of collaboration between science, film and policy makers. Preliminary film screening of "Inequality and Conflict" in Geneva with SDC experts from all over the world. The purpose was to get feedback for the final editing of the synthesis film.
06/19 SCNAT Trailer on Sustainability
05/19 r4d programme short videos on the "SDG16 Peace"; "Sdg5 Gender equality"; "Sdg10 reduce inequalities"
Two short videos from Guatemala, Nigeria and Switzerland.
04/19 sustainable chocolate ghana, VR-360 Experiment
Do we value fairtrade chocolate more through Virtual Reality experiences? Planned experiment with VR-360 videos on consumer behaviour, with the University Osnabrück forthcoming.
04/19 transdisciplinary tool design session
Design Session for the video production of the transdisciplinary tool "Three Types of Knowledge", a project with the td.net and tdlab ETH Zurich.
03/19 Shaping The future of AI, opening speech
What audiovisual data bias do we have in todays AI stories? How can we gain transparency and trust at the borderline between bot and human? We strongly need storytelling for a positive future with „Extended Intelligence“. Fintech Hackathon Zurich
02/19 Keynote: Audiovisuelle Sprache
My keynote on "Videos as another language" in Worms, Germany. We need to fundamentally change on how we reflect, think and produce videos in science and teaching. It's just a different language, and we need to understand how to work with it. > go to presentation slides
02/19 Scientists meet Filmmakers meet blackboxes
Being a mentor at the Science Film Hackathon in Basel was a blast. Looking forward to the Zurich event!
http://www.exposurehackathon.com/
01/19 VR-360 REMOTE SENSING, Leiden University
Final micro script changes of the voice-over for our VR-360 experience about the method of "Remote Sensing". Co-Design project of the Centre for Innovation with Dr. Joris Timmermans, Institute of Environmental Studies, Leiden University. Our talented voice-over speaker is Assistant Professor Paul Behrens, Energy and Environmental Change. He certainly shares some vocal genetics with David Attenborough!
11/18 Climate Change, robopocalypse, Space Travel or Immortality? Role play Game @Bravenewworld Conference
We've designed a massive role play game about the future, climate change, robopocalypse, immortality and space travel from scratch. Mitigation, adaptation, investment in AI robots or basic research? Dependent on the choices of the different countries, the future of our planet drastically changes over the next 100 years. Facilitated at Brave New World conference in Leiden.
11/18 Jos conflict, nigeria: Gender dimensions
Intense and deeply insightful week with the Gender Dimension team of the University of Geneva, colleagues from Indonesia and the local team in Nigeria for a research documentary synthesis project.
A small Nigerian "fairytale": On the road with local colleagues, hunting for images about inequality. First meeting with the chief of Durumi 1 - he accepts and sends his (handsome) prince with us. A little later, meeting with the chief of Durumi 5 - he accepts and sends another prince to join our journey. Stuffed in a car with two Nigerian princes sharing the front seat, visiting a Internally Deplaced Person Camp of refugees from the Northern states. These images will stay in my head for a while.
Field notes: Nigeria is officially a "post-conflict" state. However, the trip to Nigeria in November was our second, as we've been there in July already for only two days. One week before we arrived in Abuja, there was another genocide in Jos, excatly the place where we've planned to go. So much for post-conflict status.
11/18 Fakenews? DeepfakeS!
We're experiencing a turmoil, a collective global crisis of mistrust in the digital world with nudging, uncertainty of data policy, #EvilCorporations, facial recognition. #Deepfakes add to the prevalent #FakeNews #AlternativeFacts. Presentation 'The Future of Trust in Images' at the multidisciplinary Brave New World Conference, Leiden Netherlands. A research
video on these challenging topic will follow soon.
10/18 university Teachings: sensitive audiovisual data in the digital WORld
Have a look at the ongoing course with students from the Leiden University, TUDelt and Erasmus Rotterdam University on critical Audiovisual data in the digital world
12/19 Kulturförderung Baden: 'Fallen' ein tänzerisch-filmisches Kollaborationsprojekt
Projektförderbewilligung für unser interdisziplinäres
Kollaborationsprojekt FALLEN an der Schnittstelle von Tanz und Film mit Sarah Keusch (cie Quilla).
Aufführung und Videoinstallation am 3. und 4.September 2020 in der alten Metallgiesserei im Oederlin Areal, Baden.
10/19 Publikation
10/19 Video design; bundesamt für raumentwicklung
02/19 Keynote "Eine andere Sprache" response Tweet, Thanks!
Newspaper article on the keynote:
https://nibelungen-kurier.de/wie-videos-die-lehre-besser-machen/
12/18 VR-360 Fairtrade Chocolate @uni osnabrück
Design session for a VR experiment on sustainable chocolate in Ghana, University Osnabrück.
11/18 Manifesto Presentation @Uni utrecht
Presentation of the Manifesto for Videos in Higher Education, @Utrecht University; LERU conference.
10/18 How-to-do expert interviews with camera @USAC guatemala
Teaching session with history and anthropology fellows and students of the Universidad San Carlos, Guatemala on the tricky situation of expert interviews with camera for research documentaries. Half-structured interview meets camera documentary interview style.
08/18 360-VR Videos Connected Learning Summit @MIT BOSTON
Through recent advanced technological development, media formats such as VR360-videos for VR seem promising and enter the educational sector rapidly. Although VR360-videos resemble traditional videography in some of their affordances, innovative storytelling, playful elements and
strategies for directing the gaze-attention of the recipient are genuinely different and still need to be explored. In fact, standard VR360-videos are a rather passive medium besides the option to turn the head. We at the Centre for Innovation at Leiden University believe, that a majority of educational topics could benefit from more interaction and playful elements in VR360. Hence, we’re currently developing several projects with playful interactivity in VR in which we try to overcome the passiveness. You can find the MIT presentation here
»We never see the same thing when we also hear;
we don‘t hearthe same thing when we see as well.«
Michel Chion ›The Voice in the Cinema‹