The World Wide Video Festival organises together with Mediamatic from 10 till 14 June 2004 a workshop about Interactive Video for European video artists.

What?
In a group of 16 international film and video artists you use your own footage to make an interactive video in a 5-day workshop. The workshop is a pressure cooker style, intense process where you get to know the possibilities of interactive storytelling, design your own project, discuss it with peers and experienced trainers, and build your own working prototype. Participants can bring 40 minutes of footage maximum per person, (preferably as .mov files on cd, dvd or firewire harddisk, if necessary on mini-dv) or they can use material provided by us. To make their interactive video’s, the participants use the latest version of the elegant and easy to learn Korsakow System. Korsakow projects can be published on CDrom or DVDrom and on the Internet, the footage is then streamed. All participants are assisted personally in realising their workshop projects. No specific technical knowledge of new media is required. You need to have experience in making video though!

Why?
The combination interactive media with moving image offers the possibility to explore new ways of telling stories, both in form and in content. An interactive video project can contain multiple image tracks that exist parallel to each other, forming each other’s context. It can open an ‘issue space’ where the user actually discusses with the views of the author. By nature an interactive video requires multiple views to watch all its content. An interactive video only assumes a final form in the hands of the user, who has to make choices in viewing the project. The key issue of interactive narration and also the central question of this workshop is: how can the users actions and choices be integrated meaningfully in an interactive story?

Where, when and how much?
Workshop days are 10 – 14 June. Workshop sessions take place at the Post CS (former TPG-building), Oosterdokskade 5, 5th floor, Amsterdam, from 10.00 to 16.00 on all days. Participation fee for the workshop is Euro 300. This includes lunches at all workshop days, all materials and equipment and an accreditation to the WWVF. The workshop will be coached by Mediamatic in cooperation with the University of the Arts in Berlin. Two workshop sessions per day are open to the festival public. The public lectures deal with key issues of interactive narration and analyses of selected interactive projects. The final presentation of the workshop results takes place on 15 June at 16.00 in the Auditorium (Post CS, 11th floor). The entrance to the public sessions and the final presentation is free.

Register now:
At korsakow@mediamatic.net to join us in Amsterdam and develop your own project in less than a week!

More information: On the Korsakow System: www.korsakow.com To learn about the set up of the workshop, please visit: www.korsakow.org Email: korsakow@mediamatic.net Or call Kristin or Klaas at: 0031 (0) 20 6389901.