Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of Screen Studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, delivered an invited keynote address at the iDocs Symposium in Bristol, UK, at the University of the West of England.  Her talk was entitled “Thinking Through Digital Media:  Transnational Environments.” 

The i-Docs symposium covered three full days dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary from March 2-4, 2016. Bringing together an international mix of thinkers, makers, and designers from academia and industry, the symposium featured presentations, panels, workshops, and UK premieres by award-winning practitioners.  

Zimmermann’s keynote shared research from her recent book coauthored with Dale Hudson, Thinking Through Digital Media:  Transnational Environments and Locative Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Her presentation explored how new media documentaries both investigate the environment and create new environments. It analyzed transnational collaborative projects from the US, Singapore, South Africa, China, Latin America, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, and India that operate as transversals rerouting the vectors of new media documentary practice.