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While studying at the University of the Arts, Berlin in the 1990s Florian Thalhofer began exploring computerised storytelling. Approaching documentary computationally, he developed a structure that would allow the computer to become part of the storytelling process. The result was Korsakow a program for arranging video fragments into an interactive experience (the name references ‘Korsakoff’s Syndrome’ a condition associated with extreme alcoholism characterised by memory loss and compulsive storytelling). Since 2000, Thalhofer and others have created around 200 Korsakow films, many of which are web-documentaries. Links to many of these projects can be found at: http://korsakow.org/
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Nash, K. (2014). An Interview with Florian Thalhoffer, Media Artist and Documentary Maker. In: Nash, K., Hight, C., Summerhayes, C. (eds) New Documentary Ecologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137310491_13
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