Ithaca College

Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, published a dossier in the July 2017 online issue of media arts journal Afterimage entitled “Collaborative Documentary Practice:  Histories, Theories, Practices.” 

Her essay for the dossier is entitled “Toward a Theory of Participatory New Media.” Her essay is available here:  http://vsw.org/afterimage/2017/06/19/dossier-toward-a-theory-of-participatory-new-media-documentary/

Zimmermann edited the dossier on participatory new media featuring her writing and the essays of two renowned international new media artists/designers: Reece Auguiste (founder of the Black Audio Film Collective in the UK), “Another Way of Being: Hidden Histories of Collaborative Documentary;” Helen De Michiel (film director and new media designer most recently of Lunch Love Community) “Documentary Untethered, Documentary Becoming.” 

With Auguiste, De Michiel, and Baza, she coauthored the final piece, “Speculations and Inquiries on Participatory New Media.”  The essay is available here:  http://vsw.org/afterimage/2017/07/06/dossier-speculations-and-inquiries-on-new-participatory-documentary-environments/

The entire dossier is available here:  http://vsw.org/afterimage/2017/06/19/dossier-toward-a-theory-of-participatory-new-media-documentary/