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Live Documentary 
CMS Masters Thesis in 
Progress
The New Telepresence
“Skype, which was the fantasy of our 
childhood, gets you back to sitting there 
and being available in that old-fashioned 
way. Our model of what it 
was to be present to each other, we 
thought we liked that… But it turns out 
that time shifting is our most valued 
product. This new technology is about 
control. Emotional control and time 
control.” 
Sherry Turkle 
(Call Me! But Not On 
Skype or Any Other Video 
Chat…, TIME, Jan. 2010)
In 2012, artist John Clang created a series of Skype family photos capturing distant family members in a single 
portrait by projecting “Skyped in” individuals into their loved ones’ physical space. It is a vision of telepresence as 
it was originally theorized, creating the feeling of being-at-a-distance. 
Being Together photo project
“The mission of the Web Real-Time 
Communications Working Group, 
part of the Ubiquitous Web 
Applications Activity, is to define 
client-side APIs to enable Real-Time 
Communications in Web Browsers.” 
“These APIs should enable building applications that can be 
run inside a browser, requiring no extra downloads or plugins, 
that allow communication between parties using audio, video 
and supplementary real-time communication, without having 
to use intervening servers…”
Research Snapshot Spring 2013: A Word Cloud Apologia 
And then…
OMG: I’m interested in this topic for the same 
reason I’m interested in documentary 
(What if I combine them? Can you do that?)
Research Focus: Live Documentary 
Live Performance 
Live 
Subject 
Example project: Elaine 
Live-streaming 
Live Subject
What is a documentary? 
Walter Cronkite announces the death of 
LBJ after taking a call with the White 
House Press Secretary on the air
What is a documentary? 
What are the impulses 
of the documentary 
genre that endure? 
How do you remediate 
them for the web? 
What are the web 
affordances that can 
strengthen the documentary 
impulse?
LIVE PERFORMANCE 
Sam Green: 
Utopia in Four 
Movements 
The Love Song of R. 
Buckminster Fuller 
Taking documentary 
back into the theater 
as semi-performed 
and semi-constructed, 
a new node of early 
cinematic practices 
MAPPING 
THE 
FIELD
LIVE DATA 
Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar: We Feel Fine 
MAPPING 
THE 
FIELD
MAPPING 
Sam Gregory 
CoPresence4Good Initiative 
Documentary Witnessing  Real Time Witnessing 
THE 
FIELD 
LIVE STREAMING
Bear71, National Film Board of Canada 
Presence in Story: 
User as Live Video 
Avatar 
A Reflection of 
Content: Tracking, 
Tagging, 
Surveillance 
MAPPING 
THE 
FIELD 
LIVE STREAMING
Elaine McMillion, Hollow 
MAPPING 
THE 
FIELD 
“LIVE” SUBJECT?
LIVE TWO-WAY INTERACTION 
in DOCUMENTARY 
MY NECK OF THE WOODS: A time-limited live documentary 
MAPPING 
THE 
FIELD 
Unidirectional live-streams  Live two-way conversation between viewer & subject
What’s at stake? 
Homophily & “Flocking” Online 
Can we use narratives to entice 
people to meaningfully engage 
outside the flock? 
Potential formula: 
Emotional propulsion through 
narrative 
Orchestrated moments of free 
communication through 
‘liveness’ tech 
A new route for documentary to 
the longstanding vision of 
impact
Get in Touch 
jfische2@mit.edu 
@jufisch 
SKYPE: JuFisch1222

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Live Documentary: Thesis in progress

  • 1. Live Documentary CMS Masters Thesis in Progress
  • 3. “Skype, which was the fantasy of our childhood, gets you back to sitting there and being available in that old-fashioned way. Our model of what it was to be present to each other, we thought we liked that… But it turns out that time shifting is our most valued product. This new technology is about control. Emotional control and time control.” Sherry Turkle (Call Me! But Not On Skype or Any Other Video Chat…, TIME, Jan. 2010)
  • 4. In 2012, artist John Clang created a series of Skype family photos capturing distant family members in a single portrait by projecting “Skyped in” individuals into their loved ones’ physical space. It is a vision of telepresence as it was originally theorized, creating the feeling of being-at-a-distance. Being Together photo project
  • 5. “The mission of the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity, is to define client-side APIs to enable Real-Time Communications in Web Browsers.” “These APIs should enable building applications that can be run inside a browser, requiring no extra downloads or plugins, that allow communication between parties using audio, video and supplementary real-time communication, without having to use intervening servers…”
  • 6. Research Snapshot Spring 2013: A Word Cloud Apologia And then…
  • 7. OMG: I’m interested in this topic for the same reason I’m interested in documentary (What if I combine them? Can you do that?)
  • 8. Research Focus: Live Documentary Live Performance Live Subject Example project: Elaine Live-streaming Live Subject
  • 9. What is a documentary? Walter Cronkite announces the death of LBJ after taking a call with the White House Press Secretary on the air
  • 10. What is a documentary? What are the impulses of the documentary genre that endure? How do you remediate them for the web? What are the web affordances that can strengthen the documentary impulse?
  • 11. LIVE PERFORMANCE Sam Green: Utopia in Four Movements The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller Taking documentary back into the theater as semi-performed and semi-constructed, a new node of early cinematic practices MAPPING THE FIELD
  • 12. LIVE DATA Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar: We Feel Fine MAPPING THE FIELD
  • 13. MAPPING Sam Gregory CoPresence4Good Initiative Documentary Witnessing  Real Time Witnessing THE FIELD LIVE STREAMING
  • 14. Bear71, National Film Board of Canada Presence in Story: User as Live Video Avatar A Reflection of Content: Tracking, Tagging, Surveillance MAPPING THE FIELD LIVE STREAMING
  • 15. Elaine McMillion, Hollow MAPPING THE FIELD “LIVE” SUBJECT?
  • 16. LIVE TWO-WAY INTERACTION in DOCUMENTARY MY NECK OF THE WOODS: A time-limited live documentary MAPPING THE FIELD Unidirectional live-streams  Live two-way conversation between viewer & subject
  • 17. What’s at stake? Homophily & “Flocking” Online Can we use narratives to entice people to meaningfully engage outside the flock? Potential formula: Emotional propulsion through narrative Orchestrated moments of free communication through ‘liveness’ tech A new route for documentary to the longstanding vision of impact
  • 18. Get in Touch jfische2@mit.edu @jufisch SKYPE: JuFisch1222

Editor's Notes

  1. I’m interested in these. WHY?
  2. What mitigated those utopian visions? What stalled more ubiquitous telepresence technologies?
  3. So much so that this year Skype launched a series of ONLNINE ADS talking about the unique emotional connection of video-calling based on the production of these photos.
  4. Second semester: Connection, emotion, seeing people and engaging with them, hearing their own words, emotional resonance, REAL meaningful content and interactions… Around this time I was sort of full throttle on involvement and learning in my research lab Open Doc Lab. So I’m spinning my wheels, it’s all about connection, getting a dialogue going, getting people talking to one another making meaningful conversation, that face-to-face experience, the eye contact…
  5. The impulse of documentary to
  6. To me this is the central issue, of how to balance narrative &