Korsakow

Since 2011 Florian has been working with his partner Elissavet Aggou on a Korsakow project exploring the economic crisis in Greece, titled simply Money and the Greeks. The project includes several innovations, including a community-oriented process for viewing and voting on potential SNUs. There are also several outcomes, including interactive installations, an online Korsakow film, [...]

This interview with Nicole Robicheau, creator of the brand new Korsakow film The Border Between Us was conducted and written up by Mél Hogan, Digital Curation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Hogan has used Korsakow in the past, and is currently exploring its potential as a tool for digital curation at the [...]

The Border Between Us is a fascinating new Korsakow film created by radio journalist Nicole Robicheau. She describes it as “an interactive documentary about two border towns and twelve people. It’s set in Stanstead, Canada and Derby Line, U.S.A. It looks at life in the two communities post- 9/11.” Robicheau was particularly interested in the [...]

September 2012 marks the launch of a brand new Korsakow film, created by Korsakow co-developer Matt Soar. Two years in the making, Ceci N’est Pas Embres is a ‘database diary’ about a family from Québec moving to southwest France. Featuring personal testimony, animated sequences, and a soundtrack composed especially for the film, Ceci N’est Pas [...]

Announcing a new service for Korsakow filmmakers who want to see their completed films online, and share them with colleagues and friends, but don’t want the hassle of setting up a dedicated website to view them on. If you don’t have webhosting, or you’re not sure what FTP is, or you’re just not interested in building [...]

Months ago, while writing an article about Korsakow for the Spanish newspaper El País, I sent some questions to Matt Soar, Principal Investigator on the current SSHRC-funded project underwriting the maintenance and further development of the software. I was curious about how Matt met Florian Thalhofer, inventor of Korsakow, and why Korsakow is an interesting [...]

A brief article on Korsakow in the Spanish daily newspaper ElPaís, including comments from Florian and Matt. The article was written by our grad research assistant Irene Serrano. Thanks Irene!

Some weeks ago, the Korsakow team received an encouraging email from Grayson Cooke, an interdisciplinary scholar, media artist, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia. Cooke, who is also the Course Coordinator of Southern Cross’s Bachelor of Media degree, wanted to say hello and [...]

In summer 2010, the Brazilian multimedia producer Giovanni Francischelli led a Korsakow workshop in Campinas, a city located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. “I work with web-documentary films and I found Korsakow an excellent tool to develop such projects, so I decided to use the software in workshops on the subject”, he told [...]