Research Article| March 01 2020 Polyphony and the Emerging Collaborative Ecologies of Documentary Media Exhibition Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of screen studies at Ithaca College. Her most recent books include The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Film (2017, with Scott MacDonald) Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (2018, with Helen De Michiel) and Documentary Across Platforms; Reengineering Media, Place, and Politics (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (1): 61–66. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471011 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Patricia R. Zimmermann; Polyphony and the Emerging Collaborative Ecologies of Documentary Media Exhibition. Afterimage 1 March 2020; 47 (1): 61–66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471011 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search How do media practices beyond the single screen imagine new ecologies to propel collaborative and co-creative modes in exhibition? How do these practices dispense with a romanticized auteurism, inadequate for multiscalar environmental and political issues that require many different perspectives and strategies? How do these new screen ecologies practices dispense with causal, character-driven linear storytelling? Can theorizations of co-creation move beyond production modalities into rethinking distribution, exhibition, and spectatorship/community/audiences? Can a collaborative polyphony of living, embodied ecologies of co-creative practices be enacted? In Fall 2018, Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow launched an ambitious online participatory project in the online journal World Records entitled “Beyond Story: An Online Community-Based Manifesto.” It invites readers to contribute short articles about a wide range of documentary practices beyond long-form narrative story structures. They argue that documentary entails a great range of forms and practices beyond the “constricting contours” of a “one-size-fits all framework that... You do not currently have access to this content.