Paper short abstract:

From several examples of research works using a multimodal methodology with interactive rendering, an exploratory function of the representation of reality must be characterized. Movements and displacements in their perception by the user are to be approached in the sensory and ethical dimensions.

Paper long abstract:

The proposal is based on the refusal of the filmic format in terms of analysis of audio-visual methodologies. The proposal is based on the study of other formats, made possible by the digitization of sound and image capture. To productions such as documentary in a contemporary art process, augmented documentary, transmedia documentary and webdocumentary (SUCARI: 2012), video games, serious games, phone applications or virtual reality (VR) installations with headset. An important corpus exists today to question again the modalities of interactivity between the researcher-filmer, the actors objects of the research project in connection with the real and the public.

From several examples of research works using a visual methodology with digital and interactive production in the computer sense of the term, we wish in particular to question the interactions offered between the research work and the users and to question the sensory and phenomenological dimension of the experience lived by these same users (MARIN CARRILLO, 2019).

Is the impression of getting lost integrated in many virtual reality devices compatible with the quest to capture a real even if interactivity should allow an additional freedom to explore a real, a freedom superior to that of linear filmic narration.

This exploratory function of the representation of the real must be characterized. Movements and displacements in their perception by the user are to be approached by the researchers in the sensory and ethical dimensions.

Paper short abstract:

Drawing on photographic and narrative methods, this paper explores how people with multiple long-term health conditions morally navigate narrative experimentations. I will argue how multivocal analysis and participatory methods can highlight the transformative potential of narration.

Paper long abstract:

For people living with complex, long-term illness, telling a life story is a delicate endeavour: many chronic illnesses are rooted in traumatic pasts, then blamed on people through “lifestyle”-narratives, and finally framed as incurable, thus diminishing the possibility of imagining a hopeful future. Through a Bakhtinian analysis of multivocality in people’s biographical narratives, I am exploring multiple ways in which narrative is employed to learn how to “live well” with chronic illness. In their stories, people experiment with constructing ‘worthy’ identities by trying out different causal structures in which to frame their illness, and by imagining potential, sometimes hopeful, sometimes less so, future imaginaries. These experimentations form part of people’s efforts to come to terms with long-term illness, and are shaped by the socio-material resources and past experiences that people can draw from. These imaginaries are teased out further through participants’ participation in a PhotoVoice-inspired photography project in which they construct and share creative images with each other that represent, but also further develop imaginative narratives and collectively shape new, potentially transformative imaginaries. The images produced by the research participants are not just another form of “data gathering”, but also function as a collaborative research output. Photography and film as accessible research tools make it possible for people to participate in creating representations. For an exploration of “good care”, this is especially important: arguably, a reversal of the medical gaze takes place when participants take up a camera and document their experiences with illness and care.

Paper short abstract:

In this paper I reflect on a collaborative project with the cocopah that aims to co-produce transmedia storytelling about the issues that matter to the them. Could this process generate the conditions to critically analyze their present, create aliances and co-produce visions for better futures?

Paper long abstract:

Cocopah people living in Baja California, Mexico, face a number of challenges for cultural survival, including their struggle to continue fishing in their historic territory, even if environmental laws render their presence ilegal in their fishing camps. They are also looking for ways to revitalise their highly endagered language as the last cocopah speakers are old and sick: they fear their language -and the knowledge it expresses- will die with its last speakers. Drawing on the workshopl’s invitation to critically address the relation between ethical concerns and visual experimentations and transmedia practices in current anthropology, in this paper I reflect on the collaborative work developed for the past two years, that aims to produce transmedia storytelling about the issues that matter to the cocopah. Using digital media, an anthropologist and Visual Arts and Animation students from Mexico and Italy, have engaged through videocalls with a group of cocopah people living in Baja California, Mexico, in order to co-create a digital archive of the cocopah intangible cultural heritage. In this process, a group of young cocopah, alongside their elders and fellow activists, may become co-researchers and co-producers of a digital archive of their own culture. How could this process generate the conditions to critically analyze their present, create aliances and to co-produce visions for better futures?