February 11 2025
On Tuesday, 11 February, Roshak Ahmad will present her story. Born in Syria in 1986, the documentary filmmaker began her career as an arts and culture journalist in Damascus. When the Syrian freedom movement emerged in 2011, she reported under a pseudonym on peaceful protests and citizens' initiatives - with a particular focus on the role of women. In the process, she met Nour, a Syrian freedom fighter who became the protagonist of her story. In her presentation, Roshak Ahmad challenges common stereotypes about the role of women and brings to light universal truths that go far beyond Nour's personal story.
Afterwards, our project partner DOCK11 will conduct a real-time motion capture workshop. Participants will receive an introduction to this technology and explore its potential uses in journalism. Together we will work out how technology can be used to bring journalistic stories to life in an innovative and immersive way.
The open workshop-style event will be held in German.
It starts at 18:00 at Hermannstraße 90 Publix.
Admission is free. However, please register at this link, as the number of participants is limited to 20: pretix.eu/JIVE/jive-labs-11-2
January 30 2025
Elisabeth Weydt
One of the most powerful real utopias that humanity has to offer in the face of multiple catastrophes is the concept of the rights of nature. Here, nature becomes a legal subject.
Elisabeth Weydt has travelled to Ecuador, where all of nature (Pachamama) has been constitutionally protected since 2008. With the help of an AR installation, she provides an insight into this revolutionary and forward-looking idea, which could mean a turning point for nature and species conservation.
Inga Dreyer and David Schmidt
Why would a journalist drive over 1,400 kilometres over bumpy gravel roads to the Arctic to visit a small village - where no one is waiting for them? David Schmidt and Inga Dreyer report on a journey through Alaska to the region where the oil comes from and where indigenous people fear the loss of their livelihoods.
Info: Lecture with visual aids, but without the use of immersive technology.
January 16, 2025
The first presentation will be given by award-winning photojournalist Aliona Kardash. She was born in Siberia and will explore the following questions with the audience: What remains of home when your own country becomes the perpetrator? Who do you become when your own family suddenly feels foreign? And how do you find a new language when your own profession is practically banned in the country?
Author Nik Afanasjew then takes the audience to the far north, to Spitsbergen. Born in the SU in 1982, the author tells of how tensions between the Norwegians and Russians living there are intensifying. At the same time, the archipelago is increasingly becoming the centre of geostrategic attention.
November 28, 2024
The journalists presenting the beta versions of their specially developed digital tools this time are Nik Afanasjew and Greta Taubert.
Author and journalist Afanasjew, born in 1982 in the SU, will devote his presentation to the topic of the re-emerging Cold War on Spitsbergen.
Author and reporter Greta Taubert, born in Leipzig in 1983, wants to digitally resurrect the already extinct dodo. Using a combination of mixed and virtual reality, she discusses species extinction and biodiversity in the age of the Anthropocene.
Beforehand, Gayatri Parameswaran will give a brief introduction to the topic of user and narrative journeys. The author and producer of immersive works co-founded NowHere Media, a digital storytelling studio that looks at contemporary issues through a critical lens.
November 5, 2024
The second Lab on November 5 will once again take place at DOCK11 and will feature several great talks: Digital expert Fernanda Parente will show how augmented reality technologies can help us understand immaterial concepts or realities that are distant from us. Afterwards, the American science journalist Zack Savitsky will explain the physical quantity of entropy using models. Both lectures will be held in English.
After a short break, there will be a dance performance by Caroline Dias Pereira and singer Joel Ming on the subject of climate injustice, with NDR journalist Alexa Höber providing the facts (lecture in German).
October 8, 2025
Eva-Lena Lörzer will kick things off on October 8, 2024 with an impressive AR installation on the topic of dementia. In her reportage, the freelance print journalist shares personal insights into the progression of her father's illness - from the first signs to the progression of the disease. The innovative Luma AI technology is used here, which uses NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) to create 3D views of objects. In our project, this method is used to scan everyday spaces and convert them into immersive 3D videos. These appear fragmented and distorted - just as people with dementia often perceive their surroundings. By using the technology, we can illustrate this altered reality in an impressive and visual way and communicate it to an audience.
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The JIVE Labs are a “laboratory for new worlds of thought”. During public rehearsals in front of a selected small audience, experiments are carried out with digital tools and journalistic topics that will later be brought to life on even larger stages in Berlin and throughout the country. The labs thus serve to test new ways of communicating socially relevant topics from the cultural sector using digital artistic forms of presentation and interaction.
The labs are jointly organized by Headliner gUG and DOCKdigital. We don't want to close ourselves off to digital means in our shows. A journalistic future without them is simply unthinkable. However, we don't want to use the tools to rationalize journalism - as is so often the case - but to improve it.
More about the project: jive.de/jive-labs
The project is funded by the Berlin Senate Department as part of the "Digital Development in the Cultural Sector" funding program.
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