Memoryscape

Memoryscape

Memory-scapes is an exploration of Cinematic VR and location-based VR. The Creative Arts research project combines installation, multiscreen, Cinematic VR & location-based VR frameworks to research imaginative storytelling and immersive experiences.

Partners

Centre for Transformative Media Technologies

Investigators

Max Schleser

Memory-scapes is an exploration of Cinematic VR and location-based VR. The Creative Arts research project combines installation, multiscreen, Cinematic VR & location-based VR frameworks to research imaginative storytelling and immersive experiences. As an experimental screen production, the VR work will focus the construction of on story and memory-scapes. Working in the tradition of experimental filmmaking, the practice-led research project will re-define the time and space continuum formulating approaches to VR time in the context of interactive and generative storytelling.

While the idea of VR is not new and has been surfacing since the 1990s, accessible omnidirectional video cameras that integrate with standard video production workflows were launched in the last three year. The affordances and aesthetic implications of cinematic VR and location-based VR are not explored yet. Surfacing research suggests a ‘new paradigm of mobile cinematics’ and creative industries not only approach VR as an emerging technology, but as a new industry sector.

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9th International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival

9th International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival

The International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC) will take place on 22-24 November 2019 in Ningbo, China. IMSC focuses mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking, mobile innovation and mobile creativity. 

Partners

MINA – Mobile Innovation Network & Association, 

Mobile Studies International (MSI) 

University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)

 

Investigators

Max Schleser

Alongside the International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC), the 9th edition of MINA’s International Mobile Innovation Screening will take place on 22-24 November 2019 in Ningbo, China. IMSC focuses mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking, mobile innovation and mobile creativity. IMSC provides a forum for practitioners and scholars to showcase projects and discuss changes, challenges and chances of mobile storytelling. MINA (www.mina.pro) is the longest running film festival internationally dedicated to mobile & smartphone filmmaking with a focus on moving-image arts, documentary, community engaged film productions, experimental films and emerging film production forms and formats, such as MoJo, drone videos, AR and Mobile Cinematic VR. 

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#Nucleus

#NUCLEUS

This project focuses on ecology, sustainable smartphone filmmaking, travel films & eco-tourism. 

Partners

Goethe Institute (New Zealand)

Investigators

Max Schleser

This project focuses on ecology, sustainable smartphone filmmaking, travel films & eco-tourism. A story like a plant starts with a seed, an idea that grows organically. Nucleus, the Latin word for the seed inside a fruit, celebrates local nature through smartphone filmmaking. We understand ecology as a holistic and creative concept and as part of the film project we will explore indigenous approaches towards storytelling and hope to embrace novel connections to places & people. 

In November 2019 a collaborative short film will be produced during the three-day workshop in Wellington (New Zealand/Aotearoa) and will be presented at the Nucleus Screening. Selected filmmakers will be invited to explore eco-tourism as a theme for the collaborative short-film production.  We are inspired by Kaitiakitanga and innovative approaches to sustainable smartphone filmmaking. In order to kick-start the Nucleus film project, we launched a smartphone filmmaking competition. 

We hope to document local plants & local hero’s, community gardeners & gardens, zero wasters and people who live in sync with the environment. In order to create a community and collaborative film, the Goethe-Institut will fly the winning filmmakers to Wellington in November 2019 for the Nucleus Screening and a dedicated smartphone filmmaking workshop on the theme of sustainability, eco-tourism & travel films.

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60+ Online: Enhancing Social Inclusion through Digital Stories and Social Media Participation

60+ Online: Enhancing Social Inclusion through Digital Stories and Social Media Participation

Seniors are amongst the most digitally excluded in Australia. The 60+ Online project fostered digital inclusion amongst 22 Australian seniors (64-86 years), with varied digital skills, and socio-economic/cultural backgrounds.

Partners

Telstra Digital Inclusion Index

Boroondara City Council

Knox City Council

Investigators

Max Schleser (TMT)
Diana Bossio
Anthony McCosker
Hilary Davis

Seniors are amongst the most digitally excluded in Australia. The 60+ Online project fostered digital inclusion amongst 22 Australian seniors (64-86 years), with varied digital skills, and socio-economic/cultural backgrounds. 

Within workshops, seniors were encouraged to draw upon personal and community interests to inform storyboarding and digital story development. Digital stories were generated using iPads and smartphones, and edited using Adobe Premiere Clip. Social media sites Facebook and Instagram, facilitated shared digital skills development, supported by workshop participants and researchers. Regardless of skills at outset, every senior produced their own digital story. These were showcased at festivals, City Council events, and hosted on YouTube: 

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OPERA – Free from Violence

OPERA - Free from Violence

The Preventing Elder Abuse project develops and evaluates a community-based digital intervention into ageism as one of the primary drivers of elder abuse.

Partners

Department of Health and Human Services

Investigators

Max Schleser 
Diana Bossio
Anthony McCosker
Hilary Davis

The Preventing Elder Abuse project develops and evaluates a community-based digital intervention into ageism as one of the primary drivers of elder abuse. The digital intervention will be informed by a direct participation consultation process, which will contribute to the development of experiences of ageism as an evidence base around elder abuse. The evidence base will be used by Swinburne University researchers to produce a digital intervention, developed through a co-design model working with older people in the Eastern regions of Melbourne. 

The outcome of the digital intervention will be to contribute to and enhance the existing community education packages delivered by ECLC on elder abuse.  In addition to this, the co-created digital intervention will be shared more broadly across the sector to assist in building capacity of the Eastern Region workforce to better understand the links between the drivers of elder abuse and elder abuse.

Swinburne researchers will also lead an evaluation of the project to ensure sustainability and scalability of the project for future funding opportunities, and potential expansion of phase two to included targeted messages for specific cohorts across the community.

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