Chaos Communication Congress

Against Metadata (#5453) (30x53)

Air date: Dec 28, 2013

Speaker: Robert M Ochshorn Twisting time and space to explore the unknown Using case studies of documentary film, Freedom of Information Law document dumps, soundbanks, and a hacker conference, I will demonstrate experiments and results of several years developing open source tools to reorient the idea of documentary around its documents. This is in opposition to a tendancy towards textual and machine-readable metadata, which unduly constrain our wonder, perception, and ability to navigate ambiguous and unknown material.