Documenting and Experiencing Travel in the Era of Augmented Reality.

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Published: Sep 13, 2019

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Dr. Gerda Cammaer
School of Image Arts, Ryerson University

Abstract

Viewfinders (www.viewfinders.gallery) is an international collaborative research project created by Dr. Gerda Cammaer and Dr. Max Schleser (Swinburne University, AUS) about travel images using traveling shots. It is structured around three practical and theoretical explorations: smartphone filmmaking, interactive and non-linear viewing experiences, and experiencing content in reality via the mobile AR app. The aim of the project is to present images of the world as a non-linear journey on mobile devices that can be accessed anywhere and everywhere, expanding both the experience of travel and the experience of documentary cinema. Viewfinders offers participants the opportunity to see how others have experienced the spaces through which they travel, and discover a new view that they see forming before them.

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Vol 5 No 2 (2019): Learn the documentary?
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En Foco
Author Biography

Dr. Gerda Cammaer, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University

Dr. Gerda Cammaer is Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts (Ryerson University) where she teaches in the BFA Film Program and in the MFA Program in Documentary Media. She is co-director of the Documentary Media Research Centre (DMRC) and co-editor of Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Cammaer is a filmmaker, curator and scholar. Her films have screened at various international film and video festivals. Her research focuses on the revival of microdocumentaries, notably how current consumer friendly technology and mobile devices challenge the expectations and definitions of documentary film.