Join Us For Producers Institute Public Conference Day!

Since 2007, the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies has helped independent producers and documentary filmmakers deepen and expand the impact of their socially relevant filmmaking by connecting them with technologists, scientists, data visualization experts, interaction designers, social media strategists, installation artists, developers, and computer programmers to create interactive platforms, new models of participatory media and data-driven tools to enable social change movements on the ground.

For the first time in its five-year history, the Producers Institute has curated projects around a single theme: Indigenous Science. All six selected producers will develop a science-based interactive platform as part of a crossmedia storytelling strategy that includes the participation of global communities.

Please join us for the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies: Indigenous Science Public Conference Day, featuring panel discussions and presentations on emerging tools and platforms that are changing the face of filmmaking and empowering social change movements around the world. 

Producers Institute: Indigenous Science Public Conference Day
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Delancey Street Theater
600 Embarcadero, San Francisco
9:30am-4pm, cocktail reception following

Producers Institute: Indigenous Science Public Conference Day Itinerary

9:30am 
Continental Breakfast

10:00am- 12:00pm
PLENARY PANEL

THE TRIBAL SCIENCE FUTURE TRIP:
Collaborations in Art, Culture, Data, and Interactive Learning

At the Producers Institute this year, the vision is to leverage the cultural power of documentary storytelling to bring science and technology out of institutions and into communities, and to connect artists and technologists with scientists and educators in collaborative, interactive project development. We are thinking about both science and design through a multicultural lens, as essentially participatory rather than objective, as humanistic, and beyond borders. In this provocative conversation, a panel of groundbreaking, envelope-pushing artists and researchers will discuss projects that extend across and beyond traditional disciplines, where stories and culture meet science and data, and dynamic solutions to global challenges are amplified by the voices of the people. 

Panelists include Jabari Mahiri, Larisa Mann, Maren Grainger Monsen, Nicole Newnham, Seth Kaufman, Lynette Wallworth

12:00pm – 1:00pm
Box Lunch/Networking

1:00pm – 4:00pm
Technology QuickFire: New Tools and Trends

Invited Speakers:
Science Hacking and Open Collaboration: Ariel Waldman
Data Visualization: Eric Doversberger
Social Media: Cheryl Contee
Interaction Design: Seth Kaufman
Open Video: Ben Moskowitz
Collaborative Editing: Nonny de la Pena
Crisis Mapping: Patrick Meier
NFC: Antonio Kaplan
Game Design: Tony Walsh
Mobile Tools: Mark Belinsky
Augmented Reality: Anselm Hook

Read more about our speakers here >

4:00pm – 6:00pm
Cocktail Reception

Tickets are $40 for BAVC members, $65 for non-members and available for purchase online >

Read more about Producers Institute: Indigenous Science here >