Materialism and interactive documentary: sketch notes

Abstract

This essay undertakes a materialist media analysis of the Korsakow interactive documentary software system. Through this it examines the ways in which programmatic functions address media in particular ways, and how these inform the specific types of interactive documentaries that are then able to be made. It also argues that Korsakow, as a generative, processual program, is distinct to other interactive documentary platforms.

Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge the patience of the editors of this issue of Studies in Documentary Film, Craig Hight and Ramaswami Harindranath. I would also like to thank the nonfictionLab, RMIT University, for providing support during the writing of this article.

Notes on contributors

Dr Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer and currently the Program Director of the consilience Honours lab at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He does research on hypertext media and networked interactive video, and undertakes theoretically inflected digital projects. Adrian's research interests include interactive nonfiction, pedagogies for new media, and digital video poetics – with a Deleuzean cinematic inflection.