ORIGIN

The Korsakow-System was invented by Florian Thalhofer in 2000 for the making of the nonlinear documentary the [korsakow syndrom], his final piece at the University of the Arts, Berlin. It is being improved an developed by him and Prof. Willem Velthoven.

In March 2003 the Korsakow-Foundation was founded in Amsterdam. The Korsakow-Foundation organizes workshops and takes care about the further development of the Korsakow-System.

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

Mediamatic, Amsterdam organizes Korsakow-workshops at Film- and Media-art-festivals and at Filmschools in Europe. More than 15 one-week-workshops have taken place in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, USA, Finland, Estonia and Portugal. Find out more about Korsakow-workshops at korsakow.org

From 2001 - 2004 the Korskow-System was the students' main working tool in the class "Interactive Narration", led by Prof. Willem Velthoven and Florian Thalhofer at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

From autumn 2005 on, the Korskow-System will be used at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig in a class led by Guest-Prof. Florian Thalhofer.

The Korsakow-System is also used at a number of Film- and Media-Art-Schools all around the world.

FINISHED PROJECTS

We know of approximately 250 projects that have been made with the Korsakow-System so far. Projects done with Korsakow were shown at Galleries and Festivals worldwide.

ARTICLES

Three articles about database narration (in German language)

INTERAKTIVE NARRATION
von Prof Heinz Emigholz, veröffentlicht u.a. im Buch "Das schwarze Schamquadrat".

SACHTE WIRD DAS SCHAF GEMOLKEN
von Tobias Hülswitt, veröffentlicht in der Literaturzeitschrift EDIT.

IF THEN (English Version)
IF THEN (German Version)
von Florian Thalhofer, veröffentlicht in der Filmzeitschrift DOX.