Showcasing new and unexpected forms of digital documentary storytelling
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Past events
DocLab at SXSW 2012 12 Mar 2012 at 15:30
IDFA DocLab presents two sessions on interactive documentary at SXSW. With Jeremy Mendes (NFB), Marshall Heald (SBS Australia) and Caspar Sonnen (IDFA DocLab).
Exhibition: Expanding Documentary 2011 25 Nov 2011 at 10:00
Interactive installations, immersive performances and other unexpected representations of reality, presented by IDFA DocLab, Paradocs and Brakke Grond.
Live Cinema Event: Stories We Love to Forget 23 Nov 2011 at 22:00
An evening packed with embarrassing, true stories told live on stage. With Micha Wertheim, Paulien Cornelisse, Kevin Allison (The Risk Show) and someone reading an excerpt from their adolescent diary.
Graffiti Archeology
On the award-winning Graffiti Archaeology website, visitors can visualize the evolution of graffiti art using a custom interface.
In the words of Cassidy Curtis, one of the Graffiti Archaeology project’s designers, “Graffiti is the chameleon skin of the urban landscape. Equal parts public art and vandalism, virtuosity and subversion, it is among the most ephemeral forms of human expression.”
The aim of the website is to create a timeline, an archaeological record, an evolutionary architecture of graffiti by repeatedly photographing the same graffiti-clad walls in various cities over a period of 10 years, in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
Curtis does not photograph everything himself; he has collected work from photographers all over the U.S. Using the specially developed Grafarc Explorer interface, visitors to the website can view new layers of graffiti projected onto the same walls — the same “public canvases.
“Visitors can also choose to start with the most recent photos and use the software to go back in time. More than anything else, Graffiti Archaeology presents the dialogue between the artists, who place their graffiti over or next to each other’s work.
Sometimes a piece remains for years, while sometimes it disappears after just a few days — that is the nature of the medium. The site won a Webby Award in 2005.
Tags Art, DocLab 2009, Interactive, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2005, ongoingCreated by:Cassidy Curtis
