These interviews completed recently (2015-16) form part of Franziska Weidle‘s postgraduate research. An excerpt from Franziska’s research blog about page, which provides context on the interviews in relation to Korsakow.

In the light of the digital age, different kinds of scholars and practitioners increasingly test the potential of interactive media as a means of capturing the real. The emerging field of interactive documentaries, however, is a very heterogeneous one: various protagonists, approaches, aesthetics and dynamics are involved in constructing meaning within the framework of documentary knowledge production and dissemination. As open-source software that is used for creating “non-linear, interactive, rule-based narration”, Florian Thalhofer’s “Korsakow System” exemplifies these particular challenges to the documentary configuration on a micro level. But how does one study something like this as a system? Drawing on anthropological methodologies, one way is to look at key agents who form the “Korsakow community”, i.e. developers, academia, industry and the wider public, to see what this community makes the software do, and why. As a result, I hope to shed light on the question of what happens to the documentary genre in the digital age and which consequences arise from that observation in terms of documentary knoweldge production.

These videos are from the Korsakowians page on Franziska’s research blog.

Making with Korsakow from Korsakow Research on Vimeo.

Hannah Brasier: Introducing Korsakow from Korsakow Research on Vimeo.

Seth Keen: Introducing Korsakow from Korsakow Research on Vimeo.

Korsakow – A Tool for … What? from Korsakow Research on Vimeo.

Patrick Kelly: Introducing Korsakow from Korsakow Research on Vimeo.