This Storytelling Hack Jam introduces new tools and technologies that integrate the web with media production, bringing together creative bright sparks from the worlds of documentary, journalism, coding and art to find interactive ways to shape stories. Guidance comes from the minds behind Mozilla and Popathon and here they present the fruits of two days’ workshopping at Darklight.
Collaborate for a weekend with top-notch digital storytellers, web developers and designers on projects that use the web to push the boundaries of interactive storytelling.
Visual storytelling has been with us since the beginning of times. With the capability of the web to provide interactive, dynamic and participatory functionality, stories are starting to take new shapes and forms, allowing for engaging experiences around them. This hackathon event brings together digital storytellers, web developers and designers to collaborate on storytelling projects that can only exist on the web. You will team up to brainstorm ideas, create open-source code and demo prototypes of your own web-native stories.
Collaborate, Make, Share
Teams compete against the clock, not against each other. This weekend is a great opportunity to take an idea from inception to implementation and exchange skills in the process. The development of a minimal viable project is central to the event and at the end of the weekend, every team will demo a prototype ready to share with the world. In fact, all the code developed over the weekend will be openly available for others to build on. We’re calling out to Ireland's finest filmmakers, designers and developers to come together and enjoy support of an international team of world-class mentors, including Dan Schultz of Hyperaud.io, Berto Yáñez of A navalla suíza, and Giles Pradeau and Philo van Kemenade of Popathon.
Apply Now!
Apply here to join the Storytelling Hack Jam. We are accepting four teams (but are open to individual applicants), each of which will receive in-depth technical mentorship and specialist advice on the development of their project. You will wholly own the content and product, but you will openly license the source code that powers the experience for others to study, build on, and adapt.
Throughout the weekend nourishing lunch, delicious snacks and super fast WiFi will all be provided.
You can read about the previous event in NYC and check out the prototypes that were created.
Questions?
Please email us with any questions about the event at darklighthackjam@gmail.com
Facilitators' Biographies:
Dan Schultz
Schultz co-founded Hyperaudio, a non-profit media organization that through its communication technology links text to specific moments in a piece of video or audio, making online video as easy to consume, share, and remix as text. Schultz is a former Knight-Mozilla fellow.
Berto Yáñez
Yáñez is the Coordinator and Web-developer at Spain's A navalla suíza, an Internet communication company focused on web development services, social networks and video-based websites. A navalla suíza also develops digital culture & society contents, in particular those related with digital storytelling and crowdsourcing.
Giles Pradeau
Pradeau explores participatory documentary focusing on democratic innovations and public spendings in Europe. The first chapter of “Learning to count” uses a 360º camera to record teenagers negociating the budget for their highschool. Before making his own films, Gilles provided consultancy and workshops for public engagement and worked in Paris for a mobile film festival.
Philo van Kemenade
Kemenade is a creative technologist based in London, who uses technology to support people in telling engaging stories. His background in Artificial Intelligence and passion for filmmaking got him interested in the potential of the web as a platform for interactive storytelling. He believes we are currently lacking an interactive storytelling language that fits the nature of the web and sees multipdisciplinary experimentation as the way forward.