MOBILE

FUTURES:
POETICS, PRODUCTION
AND INNOVATION

6th International Mobile

Innovation Screening
and Symposium 2016
30th NOVEMBER - 1st December 2016
Swinburne University Hawthorn Campus,
AGSE Building Level 2,
Cnr John and Wakefiels Streets, Hawthorn
1st DECEMBER 2016
MINA International Innovation Screening,
Nga- Taonga Sound & Vision, Te Anakura Whitia-hua,
84 Taranaki Street, Wellington, New Zealand

MINA would like to thank our host

Swinburne University and our national
and international parners, committee
members and supporters .

Te Rewa o Puanga
School of Music and
Creative Media Production
College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi

max @mina.pro
@MINAmobile
www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork

Cover image: Ronen Tanchum

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The Mobile Innovation Network

Australasia [MINA] is an international
network that promotes cultural
and research activities to expand
the emerging possibilities of
mobile media. MINA aims to
explore the opportunities for
interaction between communities,
content and the creative industries
within the context of Australasia.

Foreword
This year, the Mobile Innovation Network Australasia
(MINA) team is pleased to announce that Swinburne
University (AUS) will host #MINAmobile2016 the
6th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile
Innovation Symposium & Screening in Melbourne
Australia; in collaboration with Swinburne University
of Technology, Te Rewa O Puanga - School of Music
and Creative Media Production, Toi Rauwharangi, the
College of Creative Arts (Massey University, NZ), Colab
(Creative Technologies Research Institute at Auckland
University of Technology, NZ) and RMIT University.
Building on a highly successful six years, including
the publication of an edited collection Mobile Media
Making in an Age of Smartphones by Palgrave, the
Journal of Creative Technologies and Ubiquity: Journal
of Pervasive Media, we are delighted to present this
years symposium.
The papers for presentation were selected thanks
to a double blind peer review process by the MINA
committee (Alan Litchfield, Cath Conn, Chrystle
Bazin,

Claudio Aguayo,

Clinton Watkins, Craig

Batty, Craig Hight, Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, Danni

Mulrennan, Dean Keep, Dermott Mcmeel, Diane
Charleson, Felipe Cardona, Geraldene Peters, Jenny
Weight, Krassie Petrova, Laurence Allard, Laurent
Antonczak, Lynne Ciochetto, Mark McGuire, Marsha
Berry, Max Schleser, Ocanne Delleaux, Patrick Kelly,
Pete Rive, Philippa Smith, Stefan Marks, Stefan Marks,
Susan Kerrigan and Thomas Cochrane). Papers from
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Korea, Malaysia,
New Zealand and United Kingdom were selected.
Keynote speakers, Stefano Odorico and Fee Plumley,

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will open the symposium on the 30th November and

within elevators, such as in The Cloud) and filmed

1st December.

in public places without the attention of traditional

broadcast media equipment. Iceland Contrast and

The 6th edition of the MINA International Mobile

Shapes of Winter reveal a birds eye perspective using

Innovation Screening features mobile, smartphone

drones. While Connectivity - dis - Connectivity critically

and pocket films from Belarus, Spain, Czech Republic,

examines the affordance of always on connectivity,

Israel, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, New

the micro-movie On The Move is an international

Zealand, Columbia, Canada and the USA.

collaboration filmed and edited in the cloud.

In 2016 mobile media fully integrates with geolocation, immersive experiences, co-presence and

Storytelling in the age of smartphones expands

creative media production. The MINA screening

beyond micro and mobile social media formats.

focuses on short films that provide an interesting

When We Land is a dreamlike journey in a surreal

angle on storytelling and further develop mobile

virtual reality experience. Within immersive projects

media aesthetics.

the form and experience drive the media rather than

content. YouTube and Facebook integrate 360 videos

Give Me Faces and Streets incorporates Google

and VR and reached a critical mass using Google

maps and voice memos (iOS) into the discovery of

cardboard glasses. On the other end of the spectrum

Melbournes urban and rural soundscapes. Gerda

computer generated 360 shortfilms for virtual reality

Cammaers moving-image work Ultramarine includes

devices and smartphone like Samsung Gear are being

abstract explorations of colors and movement

produced in media labs internationally. Philipp Maas

captured in the night. A Journey in 42 Shots and Riffin

and Dominik Stockhausen developed SONAR at the

on a Thick Description further explores movement,

Filmakademie Baden-Wrttemberg. The VR story

history of place and wayfaring. These stories reveal

unfolds a journey into a deep, ancient labyrinth that

personal accounts, such as Falling On Cement, which

holds a secret even darker than space itself.

shares the personal sensations, feelings and thoughts

that are part of the experience of falling when dealing

With the sixth generation of iPhones recording

with multiple sclerosis. Using personal experiences

capability of 1080p HD at 60fps, slow motion at

as a starting point Emergency Call and 1984 develop

240 fps and Filmic Pro enabling 3K 1836p videos at

narrative structures that blur the lines between fact

50 Mbps, iPhones have opened up new aesthetic

and fiction.

dimensions. Samsung S6 matches the UHD capability

at 3840x2160 resolution. Dark Waves cinematography

A number of filmmakers in the screening program

and postproduction showcases how smartphones

employ smart narratives. Smartphones enable

HD video can be color treated using Davinci Resolve.

protagonists to drive the narrative, using the handheld

In addition to the domain of post-production, which

device to interact with the story world. Bubbles Dont

is now also becoming more and more key in mobile,

Lie employs AR and UI as a metaphorical storytelling

smartphone and pocket films, the VR capability of

feature. Furthermore mobile media allows creatives

Samsung VR Gear and 360 Gear Cameras open up

and filmmakers to operate in confined spaces (i.e.

new opportunities in the emerging field of 360 video

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and VR. In combination with drone video and Go Pros

(Wellington, NZ), Auckland University of Technology -

pocket filmmaking further amplifies the prospects

Colab (Auckland, NZ) and RMIT University (Melbourne,

and potential of mobile, smartphone and pocket

Australia).

filmmaking.
MINA Co-founders & Symposia Conveners
While smartphones have entered the high-end
production spectrum, the MINA International Mobile
Innovation Screening does not lose sight of the micromovies, community engaged projects and the mobile
social media. With an ever expanding area and market
of apps and social media messaging systems the
classification of communication and filmmaking are
blurring and further developing storytelling in the
21st century.
We hope you enjoy the screening of the MINA program
and MINAs international partners.
This year MINA was featured in Movie Maker Magazine
- The Art and Business of Making Movies and we
are pleased to announce that one of the next MINA
Screenings has been confirmed for 2017 at Ryerson
University in Toronto, Canada. We are in discussions
about more international screening opportunities
& mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking
workshops and are keen to hear from you if you
are interested. With a special thanks to the MINA
Screening team (Chrystele Bazin, Patrick Kelly, Felipe
Cardona, Stefano Odorico, Marsha Berry, Seth Keen,
Dan Wagner and Laurent Antonczak) and co-curators
(Gerda Cammaer and Dean Keep).
Finally, the MINA team would like to thank all the
people who can make this 6th Symposium possible:
the engaged and passionate authors, presenters, the
enthusiastic and diligent MINA committee; our key
supporters namely: Swinburne University (Melbourne,
Australia), Massey University Research Fund and
the Massey University - College of Creative Arts

Laurent Antonczak, Dean Keep & Max Schleser

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MINA Team
MINA CO-FOUNDERS
Dr Max Schleser
Massey University, New Zealand
Laurent Antonczak
AUT University, New Zealand
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
[by alphabetical order]
Laurent Antonczak
AUT University, New Zealand
Dean Keep
Swinburne University, Australia
Dr Max Schleser
Swinburne University, Australia

SCREENING PROGRAMME 2016

Coordinated and curation by
Dr Max Schleser (Director)
Swinburne University, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Gerda Cammaer
Ryerson University, Canada
Dean Keep
Swinburne University, Australia
SCREENING COMMITTEE
[by alphabetical order]
Laurent Antonczak
AUT University, New Zealand
Chrystele Bazin
Journalist, France
Dr Marsha Berry
RMIT University, Australia
Felipe Cardona
P. Xavierian University, Colombia
Dr. Seth Keen
RMIT University, Australia
Dr Patrick Kelly
RMIT University, Australia
Dr Stefano Odoricor
Leads Trinity University, England
Dan Wagner
Unitec Institute of Technology,
New Zealand

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MINA Film Partners

Nga- Taonga Sound & Vision

Screening Partner

Sesiff (Korea)
Festival Partner

Super 9 (Portugal)
Festival Partner

Virtuo (NZ)
Commercial Partner
Virtuo is an intelligent collective
of experts in serious experimental
play. www.virtuo.co.nz

Cinephone (Spain)
Festival Partner

Pocket Cinema Film Festival (Pakistan).

Festival Partner

International Mobil Film Festival (USA)

Festival Partner

iPhone Film Fest (USA)

Festival Partner

Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia)

Festival Partner

Mobile Movie Making Magazine (USA)

Press Partner

Smartfone Flick Fest

Festival Partner

The 6th International

Film Partner Screening 2016
Wednesday 30th November, 2016
Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn, Melbourne.
MINA presents a selection of films from our international
festival partners

Sesiff (Korea)
Super 9 (Portugal)
Cinephone (Spain)
Pocket Cinema Film Festival (Pakistan).
International Mobil Film Festival (USA)
iPhone Film Fest (USA)
Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia)
Smartfone Flick Fest (Australia)

Riffin on a Thick Description

Marsha Berry
AUSTRALIA

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The 6th International Mobile

Innovation
Screening 2016 tival
partners.
Thursday
1st December,
30th November,
2016 2016
Lido Cinemas, Hawthron, Melbourne.
MINA presents a curated selection of mobile films.

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Order

Title / Filmmaker / Country

Filmmaker

1.

1984 / Aleksandr Abraztcov / BELARUS

2.

The Cloud/ Alfonso Garca Lpez / SPAIN

3.

Bubbles Dont Lie / Stepan Etrych / CZECH REPUBLIC

4.

When We Land / Ronen Tanchum / ISRAEL

5.

Sonar / Philipp Maas / GERMANY

6.

Iceland Contrast / Sebastien Duhem / FRANCE

7.

Shapes of Winter / Marcus Mller / SWEDEN

8.

Connectivity dis Connectivity / Anagha Saggar / AUSTRALIA

9.

Give Me Faces and Streets! / PatrickKelly /AUSTRALIA

10.

Emergency call (Appel durgence) /Brice Veneziano / FRANCE

11.

Falling On Cement / Leo Berkeley / AUSTRALIA

12.

An other / Min K Kang / AUSTRALIA

13.

On The Move / Laurent Antonczak / NEW ZEALAND, COLOMBIA, UK

14.

Riffin on a Thick Description / Marsha Berry /AUSTRALIA

15.

A Journey in 42 Shots / Seth Keen / AUSTRALIA

16.

Ultramarine / Gerda Cammaer / CANADA/NEW ZEALAND

17.

Dark Waves / Sven Dreesbach / USA/GERMANY

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1984
Aleksandr Abraztcov
Country: Belarus
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: Iphone 6
Software:Adobe After Effects
Winston Smith, our protagonist, lives in a totalitarian state which is headed by Big Brother.
The whole life of the working party is monitored on telescreens located in each house.
However, Winston does not share the ideas of the party and is harbouring secret doubts.
Aleksandr was born in the city of Cherepovets (Vologda region, Russia) in 1995.
In 2014 he purchased his first camera, and at the same time found he had opened a window
to learn, develop new horizons, and find the embodiment of his creative work. Cinema Art
is an essential and growing part of modern art, in which Aleksandr has found a further way
of developing his artistic career.

The Cloud
Alfonso Garca Lpez
Country: Spain
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: Iphone 4s & 6
Software: Final cut 7
Mike is trapped in an elevator. His only solution is The Cloud, an Operating System Phone
which saves a copy of his brain.
Producers Alfonso Garcia (director) and Vincent Blonde (writer) of Geofilms
Entertainment first met in Madrid on a comedy show on spanish television in 2003.
Both were responsible for an animated TV series about superheroes with celebrity, a
political and social satire which caused great audience impact. Thanks to the
technique of cut and paste and collage, they handled the characters with only a edit
tool ( Final Cut).
Alfonso, as a director, had already made their first tricks of special effects
recorded with a handycam. His vocation for craft horror films began mashing cookies
to simulate their characters and vomiting as a result viewers also had just throwing
up. His first filmography is about martial arts, the musicals and Rasputin.
Vincent, meanwhile, as a writer, did the voices of fictional characters in
different radio programs.

Bubbles Dont Lie

Stepan Etrych
Country: Czech Republic
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone 5, white model/32GB
Software: FilmicPro, Adobe CC
That day started as usual, Engineer Cmiral woke up, washed his face and teeth in the
bathroom - then suddenly, a strange thing happened. A bubble, like from a comic book,
appeared above his head. The number 6 was inside the bubble. Very soon bubbles had
shown up above everybody in the world, but no one knew the meaning of those different
numbers. The film was shot entirely on an iPhone 5, and has been selected for more than
40 festivals around the world and won various awards.
Stepan Etrych (1977) was born in Prague, former Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).
He is a self-taught filmmaker and musician. After completing his journalism studies, for some
years he worked as a movie critic for magazines and newspapers. In 2007,with just two friends,
he shot his first short movie. After some years with his rock band he turned back to the world
of cinema. His short films have won various awards and were selected for exhibition at almost
100 films festivals in locations such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain,
Argentina, Australia, South Africa and Mexico.

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When We Land
Ronen Tanchum
Country: Israel
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: Kinect
Software: Touchdesigner
When We Land is a virtual reality film designed and directed by Ronen Tanchum
(Phenomena Labs) for the music of Young Yosef.
The film is composed from a single shot sequence, taking the viewer on a dreamlike journey
through polygonal landscapes and morphing environments reacting to the music as you
move in the surreal virtual reality space. The elements are shaped to visualize the funky
sounds of Young Yosef in a way thats compelling and allows the user to be fully immersed
in the autonomous world of When We Land. The film was created specifically for VR
headsets as an immersive experience and is available for both Oculus, Samsungs GearVR
and cardboards.
Ronen is Israeli born and living in BC, Canada. Ronen has worked in the blockbuster film
industry for over 10 years at ILM Studios, Sony Imageworks and more as an Effects Artist
and technician, nominated for oscar awards for visual effects and specialized in physics
3D simulations. In the last few years, Ronen has been working as a Creative Director
and technologist for the advertisement and interactive medias, revolutionizing the way
technology affects video-art and Virtual Reality filmmaking.

SONAR
Philipp Maas
Country: Germany
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: Produced for Samsung S6 and later models
Software: Maya, ZBrush, Premiere Pro
SONAR is a computer generated 360 short film for virtual reality devices, directed and
produced by Philipp Maas and Dominik Stockhausen (@von_stockhausen) at Filmakademie
Baden-Wrttemberg. A drone receives a faint distress call emerging from an unknown
asteroid. When it journeys to locate the source of the signal, it ventures into a deep, ancient
labyrinth that holds a secret even darker than space itself.
Dominik Stockhausen is a director and CG generalist based in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
He studied Theater and Media Studies at the University of Bayreuth where he worked on
several movie and theater productions. Since 2012 he has been a student of Animation and
Visual Effects at the Filmakademie Baden-Wrttemberg. Specializing in creating cinematic
VR content his focus lies on finding innovative new ways of storytelling. He is the director
and producer of the animated VR Short SONAR that has been featured at this years
Sundance Film Festival.
Iceland Contrast
Sebastien Duhem
Country: France
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: DJI Phantom 2, GoPro 4
Software: Final cut pro X, After effects
Flying around Iceland through the scales steps, feel the earth all mighty like the Vikings of
1000 years ago.
While in Iceland, Sebastien Duhem saw the story of scaldes (Icelandic poets) about their
lands in the Icelandic sagas. Wardunas music also spoke of the old norse religion and
way of living. Sebastien found a really powerful message in these pictures and music - a
message that we all have in us but that we failed to remember as a species. Now its time to
remember our roots.

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Shapes of Winter
Marcus Mller
Country: SWEDEN
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: DJI Inspire 1, 5D Mark III
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects
This was all shot in the end of December 2015. The place is called Ottsj, placed near re in
Sweden. The idea was just to go out and try to capture some cool shots. I was there during
my holiday and didnt have any expectations of making anything good. It was really just
experimenting, trying to see the world from another perspective. However, it turned out
pretty good in the end.
Marcus Mller is a freelancing still and video photographer. He mostly shoots music
videos, events, short films and commercials.

Connectivity - dis - Connectivity

Anagha Saggar
Country: Australia
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone 5s
Software: Adobe Premiere
The experimental short video Connectivity - dis - Connectivity investigates a question
concerning the overusage of mobile phones, which offer an affordance of always on
Connectivity. Proliferated internet technology on the phone became a source of an instant
connection and constant distraction. Resulting in less physical and emotional interaction
with loved ones. The Kaleidoscopic imagery signifies the continuous and unnecessary
bombardment of information which the ordinary human brain fails to consume and gets
lost in. The young girl is continuously asking for involvement with her mother in her play
but gets unnoticed as the Kaleidoscope and frame within a frame play a role of
metaphorical barriers between them. At the end, a daughter steps up as a Protagonist
and the reason of disconnectivity, a kaleidoscope, is removed by her and the clear image
and sound indicate that the relationship is retained.
Anagha is an aspiring Camera operator and Editor, currently pursuing her final year in
Master of Media in Melbourne. Having a professional experience of Graphic designing in
a creative field, now she aims to expand and enhance her knowledge in world cinema to
create and integrate new ideas from different cultures and societies into contemporary
film practices.

Give Me Faces and Streets!

Patrick Kelly
Country: Australia
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone 6
Software: Google Maps (iOS), Voice Memos (iOS), Adobe Audition CC, Adobe Premiere CC.
Patrick Kellys film Give Me Faces and Streets! is inspired by Walt Whitmans poem Give
me the splendid silent sun (1865) and offers a musing on the binary of Urban and Rural.
The project was initiated by a collaboration between Patrick Kelly and Sophie Shanahan, in
which the artists challenged each other to create particular artworks with certain limitations
or focuses. Shanahan initially challenged Kelly to create a soundscape that explored the
aforementioned binary. His response uses a mixture of audio recorded using the Voice
Memo app on an iPhone 6, in and around Melbourne, Australia, as well as small snippets
of found audio. The rural sounds include walking on gravel, dirt, and grass, as well as flies
buzzing and distorted wind. The urban sounds are largely man-made, including voices,
instrumental music, trams, automobiles, and construction.
Patrick is a filmmaker, writer and academic, who completed his PhD in Creative Media at
RMIT in 2013.

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Emergency call (Appel durgence)
Brice Veneziano
Country: France
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: LG G3
Software: Avid media composer, Pro Tools, After Effects CC.
Everyday we see children on the streets...
Brice Veneziano is a young french director who lives in Paris. He studied scriptwriting at
university and he worked as an editor for two years, but he has wanted to make movies for
many years and he made his first short movie when he was fifteen years old. Since then, he
has been the director, scriptwriter and editor of six short films and now hopes to make his first
feature film coming soon.

Falling On Cement
Leo Berkeley
Country: Australia
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: Iphone 4S
Software: Adobe Premiere
I have multiple sclerosis and know a lot about falling over, due to dysfunctional legs and
damaged balance. Falling inside and outside, forwards and backwards, falling on wood,
bitumen and cement. This short personal documentary is my attempt to creatively explore
the sensations, feelings and thoughts that are part of the experience of falling.
Leo Berkeley is a senior lecturer within the School of Media and Communication at RMIT
University in Melbourne, Australia. He also has considerable experience as an independent
filmmaker, having written and directed the feature film, Holidays on the River Yarra, which
was an official selection for the Cannes Film Festival in 1991. More recently he has developed
an interest in a new media form called machinima. A machinima work he produced, Ending
With Andre, screened at the 2005 Machinima Film Festival in New York. In 2008 he also made
a micro-budget feature film called How To Change The World. His current research interests
are in the practice of screen production, low and micro-budget filmmaking, improvisation,
essay and ethnographic films, community media and machinima.

An Other

Min K Kang
A Man, disturbed by someones invisible angry gaze, realizes that the uncomfortable gaze
comes from his inner side.

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On The Move
Laurent Antonczak
Country: New Zealand, Colombia, UK
Smartphone, Pocket Camera:iPhone 4S, iPhone 5S, Sony Experia, iPhone 6
Software: JumpCam
In 2015, a few people decided to play together... More seriously stated: they decided to collaborate, to co-create via a special App, called Jumpcam, and this is one of their outputs.
[ Participants ]
Laurent Antonczak (Auckland New Zealand), Felipe Cardona (Bogota Colombia), Thom
Cochrane (Auckland New Zealand), Max Schleser (Wellington New Zealand), Daniel
Wagner (Auckland New Zealand)

Riffin on a Thick Description

Marsha Berry
Country: Australia
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone 6
Software: Adobe Premiere
This evocative video is an example of how the extreme accessibility of smartphones has
inspired new ways of making mobile art. Wayfaring, co-presence and mobility are concepts
drawn from digital ethnography through which mobile media art can be reimagined. These
concepts are the background for this practice-led mobile filmmaking experiment that
asks: How might we better understand the dynamic and intricate relations that lie in the
between of mobile media and creative practice?
Marsha Berry is a senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is co-editor of the book, Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014),
Palgrave MacMillan. Marsha supervises postgraduate research students across a range of
topics concerned with new media arts, narrative, creative writing and mobility. Since 2004,
she has been researching the connections between mobile media and creative practice and
has published her work extensively in scholarly international journals. She is a researcher,
writer and artist whose practice includes filmmaking, participatory art projects, and poetry.

A Journey in 42 Shots
Seth Keen
Country: Australia
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone6
Software: Adobe Premiere
The work A Journey in 42 Shots documents travel from the city of Melbourne to Cape Bruny
Lighthouse in Tasmania. Using an iPhone as a sampling device, I recorded observations
within the constraint of two seconds duration. The sampling process revealed a focus on the
landscape and the history of the place.
Dr. Seth Keen is a New ZealandAustralian documentary designer and producer, who has
worked for 20 years in the film and television industry. He is a lecturer in new media at
RMIT University in Melbourne. His research focuses on mobile filmmaking and interactive
documentary practices. Interested in media innovation, Seth collaborates with research,
cultural and commercial partners on the design of audio-visual works, archives and tools.

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Ultramarine
Gerda Cammaer
Country: Canada/New Zealand
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone4
Software: Final Cut Pro
This short meditative piece is titled ultramarine after the name of the blue color of the light
reflected in a fountain at night. Literally meaning beyond the sea ultramarine lets you
briefly drift away on its deep blue waves.
Both as scholar and as filmmaker Gerda Cammaer specializes in experimental and documentary film. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is also a freelance programmer of experimental film and video.

Dark Waves
Sven Dreesbach
Country: USA/Germany
Smartphone, Pocket Camera: iPhone6s Plus
Software: Filmic Pro / Davinci Resolve
A lonesome rider roaming the dark waves of central California.
Director Sven D. is a creator of visual content and loves the ocean. Born and raised in Germany,
he has been based in Venice, CA for over 10 years.

Iceland Contrast
Sebastien Duhem
FRANCE

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The 6th International

Mobile Creativity and Mobile
Innovation
Symposium 2016
MOBILE
FUTURES:
POETICS, PRODUCTION
AND INNOVATION

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#MINA2016
Mobile Futures:
Poetics, Production
and Innovation.
This year MINA is pleased to announce that Swinburne University (AUS) will host #MINAmobile2016 International Mobile
Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium & Screening in
Melbourne.
From avant-garde filmmaking and radical remediation, through
to media methods, games, apps and politics, mobile media
presents opportunities to forge new practices, new identities
and new futures. The symposium provides a platform for artists,
designers, filmmakers, researchers and industry professionals to
debate the prospect of mobile and ubiquitous technologies.
Join in the discussion and follow us on Social Media
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#MINAmobile2016
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[ DAY #01 | WEDNESDAY 30/11/2016 ]

9:00 > Registrations
9:30 | 9:40 > Acknowledgement of Swinburne (Dean)
9:40 | 9:45 > Introduction Max Schleser
9:45 | 10:30 > Keynote #01 Stefano Odorico
10:30 MORNING BREAK
11:00 | 12:00 > Session #01 POLITICS
Cliff Ashford (New Zealand) 15 min
Auckland University of Technology - Student Driven Mobile App Project
5 min Q&A
Boris Bai via Hangouts (New Zealand) 15 min
Open source video coaching and crowdsourced media sharing: Improving video
segmentation usability via ad-hoc mobile mashups
5 min Q&A
Crystal Abidin (Singapore/Australia) 15 min
L8r h8r: Fans, haters, and ephemeral solidarity in Influencer wars
5 min Q&A
12:00 - 13:00 > LUNCH, included with the Symposium registration
13:00 | 14:00 > Session #02 IDENTITIES
Jung Moon (Korea) 15 min
Smart Ajumma: a study of women and technology in South Korea
5 min Q&A
Paula van Beek (Australia) 15 min
Did the iPhone 4 front-facing camera cause the selfie craze? : Unpacking the
complexities of performing the self.
5 min Q&A
Patrick Kelly (Australia) 15 min
Mobile Co-Creations through WIL Project Work with Aboriginal Partners

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Presenters and Networks

Worldwide Locations

14:00 | 15:00 > Session #03 STORYTELLING

Felipe Cardona via Hangouts (Colombia) 15 min

INTERCOLABDOC, an Experiment on interactivity, collaboration and mobile filmmaking
5 min Q&A
Gerda Cammaer, Phillip Rubery & Max Schleser (Canada / New Zealand / Australia) 15 min
Ubiquitous & Mobile Narratives: Exploring Mobile Creativity
5 min Q&A
Rewa Wright via Hangouts (New Zealand) 15 min
From AR to VR on Smartphones: Paradigms and Paradoxes of Mobility
5 min Q&A
15:00 AFTERNOON TEA
15:30 | 16:30 > Session #04 PLACE
Gerda Cammaer (Canada) 15 min
New Voices: Teaching Mobile Cinema and the Unlearning of Film Conventions.
5 min Q&A
Olivia Guntarik & Aramiha Harwood (Australia) 15 min
Co-creative sites: Place making with mobile media
5 min Q&A
Dean Keep (Australia) 15 min
Smartphone Poetics and Evocative Documentary Practices
5 min Q&A
16:30 > Symposium DAY #01 Closing words Max Schleser & Dean Keep
18:50 | 20:30 > PUBLIC SCREENING, included with the Symposium registration
International Partner Film Festival Screening at Lido Cinemas (Cinema 6),
675 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 3122.

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[ DAY #02 | THURSDAY 01/12/2016 ]

9:00 > Registrations
9:30 | 9:40 > Acknowledgement of Swinburne & MINA (Dean / Max Schleser)
9:40 | 9:45 > Introduction Max Schleser & Tristan Bunn
9:45 | 10:30 > Keynote #02 Fee Plumley
10:30 MORNING BREAK
11:00 | 12:00 > Session #05 MAKING
Martin K. Koszolko (Australia) 15 min
Creative methodologies of mobile musicians
5 min Q&A
Dave Miller via Hangouts (United Kingdom) 15 min
Sherwood Rise - The AR Novel
5 min Q&A
Steve Jones via Hangouts (United Kingdom) 15 min
Making, Playing, Moving: The Carry Principle and Mobile Music Practice
5 min Q&A
12:00 - 13:00 > LUNCH, included with the Symposium registration
13:00 | 14:00 > Session #06 HEALTH
Ana Velho, Tiago Lucena & Dorne Vincius (Brazil) 15 min
Mobile Apps versus endemic diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes
(Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya)
5 min Q&A
Ayan Said (New Zealand) 15 min
Mobile technology creating a space for youth leaders in health
5 min Q&A
Max Schleser & Riz Firestone via Hangouts (New Zealand) 15 min
Mobile Health 4 Pacific Youth
5 min Q&A

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14:00 | 15:00 > Session #07 POLITICS6

Xiaoge Xu and Wendy Li (Malaysia/Australia) 15 min
Comparing Mobile News Experience
5 min Q&A
Lynne Ciochetto (New Zealand) 15 min
'Mobile mobilisation': activism and the mobile phone in Burma, Indonesia and Malaysia
5 min Q&A
Miriam Ross (New Zealand) 15 min
Vertical Framing: From User Generated Videos to Corporate Marketing
5 min Q&A
15:00 AFTERNOON TEA

15:30 | 16:30 > Session #08 LOCATION

Thomas Cochrane, David Sinfield, Marcos Steagall & Talita Tolutau (New Zealand) 15 min
Exploring Mobile360: Immersive user-generated mobile images and video
5 min Q&A
Hugh Davies (Australia) 15 min
The Cultural Aesthetics of QR Codes
5 min Q&A
Troy Innocent (Australia) 15 min
XON KON generating mobile stories through urban play
5 min Q&A
16:30 > Symposium DAY #02 Closing words Max Schleser & Dean Keep
18:50 | 20:30 > PUBLIC SCREENING, included with the Symposium registration
International Mobile Innovation Screening at Lido Cinemas (Cinema 6),
675 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 3122.

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[ DAY #03 | FRIDAY 02/12/2016 ]

Workshop: VR & 360 video workshop
On Friday December 2 (2pm-4pm), MINA will hold a special VR showcase and workshop at Swinburne
University. The VR workshop is an open show and tell forum for participants to present their VR and 360 video
projects, VR tools and technologies.
Nowadays mobile camera phones, smartphones and pocket cameras are ubiquitous. The aim of the 360 mobile
video & mobile VR workshop is to experiment with smartphones as a creative tool and to discover the capabilities of
this innovative form of visual storytelling. Participants are asked to bring along any 360 mobile video or mobile VR
tools and technologies. We will explore a framework built upon a mashup of Google services that empower usergenerated 360 content creation, publishing and sharing, consisting of an ecology of resources that includes:

Google Maps
Google Cardboard & Daydream
Google Street View
Google Local Guides
YouTube 360 Video

Showcase presenters:
Miriam Ross and Raqi Syed (Victoria University of Wellington)
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/about/staff/miriam-ross
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/design/about/staff/raqi-syed
Circle Versus Square: VR as the Third Experience
For their experimental VR project that tests how the rectangle, as dominating visual framework in traditional screen
culture, can be dismantled in favour of the sphere in virtual reality, Raqi Syed and Miriam Ross have been collaborating with Wellington performance group, Binge Culture, and Kevin Romond from Weta. One of the main aims of the
project is to explore a particular way of utilizing the spherical virtual space one in which the apparatus of production is preserved and exploited even as part of the storytelling process. The project has been utilising portable
Samsung 360 cameras as well as custom building VR rigs to work with GoPro cameras and lightweight gimbals.
Miriam and Raqi will discuss this work and, if possible, show footage emerging from the project. More information
on the project can be found here http://circlevsquare.xyz/
Edward Bellamy & Tom Mitchell (Staples VR)
Staples VR is a boutique VR content creation company focused on bringing the newest forms of emerging technology to Australia and New Zealand. With Offices in both Melbourne Australia and Auckland New Zealand we provide
full rental, tech support, production facilities and concept design to the VR industry.
We have a full team of in-house experts to take your production from the idea phase right through to delivery across
multiple platforms and devices.
Dominik Stockhausen is a director and CG generalist based in Ludwigsburg, Germany. He studied Theater and
Media Studies at the University of Bayreuth where he worked on several movie and theater productions. Since 2012
he has been a student of Animation and Visual Effects at the Filmakademie Baden-Wrttemberg. Specializing in
creating cinematic VR content his focus lies on finding innovative new ways of storytelling. He is the director and
producer of the animated VR Short 'SONAR' that has been featured at this years Sundance Film Festival.
Dr Thomas Cochrane
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0192-6118
Thomas is an AJET Associate Editor, an editorial board member of RLT and IJMBL, and the coordinator of the Ascilite Mobile Learning Special Interest Group. The Ascilite MLSIG aims to explore the unique affordances of mobile
devices for student-generated content and student-generated contexts via such technologies as collaborative
media production and sharing, VR, AR, geolocative and contextual sensors, drones and wearable technologies.
Dr Max Schleser
https://vimeo.com/maxschleser

Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones

Edited by Marsha Berry, Max Schleser
ISBN: 9781137469816
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications (apps),
the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent,
experience, and share the everyday is changing. With the overlay of
location-based services, these experiences and representations are
providing new social, creative, and emotional cartographies.
This collection discusses the prospects of the proliferation of mobile and
digital filmmaking opportunities, from videographic citizen journalism to
networked, transmedia collaborative filmmaking and photography, and
the embedding of filmmaking and photography in social media practice.
The contributors reflect on emergent creative practices as well as digital
ethnographies of new visualities and socialities associated with smartphone
cameras in everyday life.

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Te Rewa o Puanga
School of Music and
Creative Media Production
College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi

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