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Join me for Making Media Now 2013 in Boston, May 3, 2013
Written by David Tames on April 24, 2013
Filed Under Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, New Media

I hope you’ll join me this year on Friday, May 3rd at Massachusetts College of Art and Design for Making Media Now 2013, the annual must-attend conference for documentary media makers presented by Filmmakers Collaborative. I’m...  Continue Reading...

UnknownSpring: web documentary review and interview with photojournalist Jake Price
Written by David Tames on March 6, 2013
Filed Under Documentary, Front Page, New Media, Photography, Reviews, Web, Web Documentary

The tsunami of 2011 devastated the Tohoku region of Japan killing thousands of people, flooding agricultural fields, destroying houses, profoundly transforming the land and survivors. Jake Price lived with the residents of Yuriage...  Continue Reading...

Principles of Interaction Design for Interactive Documentary Makers
Written by David Tames on February 13, 2013
Filed Under Books, Design, Documentary, Featured, Filmmaking, Media Literacy, Mobile devices, New Media, Web

Content production methodologies are converging with the strategies and tactics of interaction design. The latest mobile phones and tablets provide a wonderful platform for delivering intimate interactive documentary experiences. Where...  Continue Reading...

Three tools for developing iOS apps
Written by David Tames on May 26, 2012
Filed Under Apple, Mobile devices, New Media

I’ve been considering creating some iPhone and iPad apps lately, and I’ve been wondering, what tool should I use? In addition to Apple’s industrial strength Xcode development framework for developing iOS apps in Objective...  Continue Reading...

Making Media Now 2012: Thriving in a Changing Landscape
Written by David Tames on May 1, 2012
Filed Under Business, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, New Media

The Making Media Now conference organized by Filmmakers Collaborative has become the annual must-attend event for New England media makers. This year the event will mark Filmmaker’s Collaborative’s 25th anniversary and...  Continue Reading...

Ten glimpses into the crystal ball: the future of documentary
Written by David Tames on June 18, 2011
Filed Under Business, Distribution, Documentary, Film Festivals, Filmmaking, Media Technology, New Media, Television, The Media, Web

I’ve been contemplating the evolution of the documentary this summer and I was delighted to see that The MediaGuardian’s recent Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 coverage includes ten articles providing a refreshing perspective...  Continue Reading...

Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema
Written by David Tames on December 15, 2010
Filed Under Art, Books, Critical Theory, New Media

Among my favorite books is Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema, in spite of originally being published in 1970, it still offers a fresh perspective on the possibilities of new media art. Imagine a collection of essays that...  Continue Reading...

A framework for thinking about cyberspace
Written by David Tames on December 1, 2010
Filed Under Books, Critical Theory, New Media, The Media

Daniel Downes suggests in Interactive Realism: The Poetics Of Cyberspace (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005) that it is people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the “transformative turn”...  Continue Reading...

Cinema will eventually become a flexible means of writing
Written by David Tames on November 22, 2010
Filed Under Art, Camera, Critical Theory, Filmmaking, Music Video, New Media, Sticky, Writing

In 1948 Alexandre Astruc, a filmmaker and theorist, suggested the notion of caméra-stylo (camera pen) in his essay, “The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo,” which appears in the book, The French...  Continue Reading...

provocative.objects: the extradition (Fri., Nov. 12, 2010)
Written by David Tames on November 9, 2010
Filed Under Art, Events & Screenings, MassArtDMI, New Media

You are cordially invited to attend provocative.objects: the extradition, a cybersurreal exhibition + event on Friday, November 12th at MassArt in the Patricia Doran Gallery. The event is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. and end around...  Continue Reading...

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