Event: 'MA: Experiments In Audio And Interactive Documentary With Kara Oehler' Print
  Greater Boston
Events taking place in the Boston area.
Date: Monday, November 14, 2011 At 04:00 pm

Location: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Gym, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Description: Kara Oehler is a Peabody Award–winning audio documentarian, a founder of metaLAB (at) Harvard, and Editor-in-Chief of Zeega, an open-source platform for creating interactive documentaries and inventing new forms of storytelling. Her work focuses on pushing the boundaries of narrative journalism on the air and across multiple platforms; combining investigative storytelling with participatory media; and building new systems and opportunities for education and artistic practice. Primarily, Oehler creates aesthetically experimentalaudio and interactive documentaries to engage and refamiliarize people witheveryday stories and pressing issues, striving to keep much of their uncertainty, cruelty, sparseness, whimsy, and clatter intact.