Innovation Salon VII: Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Interactive Mapping for Filmmakers

Innovations in interactive mapping have exploded recently: media artists all over the world are harnessing mobile platforms and geospatial technologies to tell stories in new ways. Visual analytics are more important than ever, and are being used to trace narrative arcs globally, to track audience participation, measure engagement, and assess the social impact of media. Documentary filmmakers are architecting new outreach models based in mapping code, semantic search functionality, and even computational linguistics.

At this Innovation Salon, come have your mind be blown about the future of public media and civic engagement through emerging mapping technologies. Experts from Google Earth, Ushahidi, and Radical Design join award-winning independent filmmakers to help us map some of the most exciting projects and new innovations.

Invited panelists:
Chris Blow, Interaction Designer, Ushahidi
Patrice O'Neill, Executive Producer, Not In Our Town
David Taylor, Founder, Radical Design
Tina Ornduff, Google Earth Education

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, 7pm
at BAVC (2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor, SF, 94110)

This event is free for current BAVC members. For non-members, there is a small $10 fee.