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Virtual/Physical is Erin Clarke’s blog for reflecting on new media in documentary practice, as part of the requirements for Production III: Narrative and Interactive Forms (DM8106), a core course of Ryerson University’s Documentary Media MFA program. Specifically, course contents will be examined in relation to the Documentary Manifesto I wrote for a previous class, Documentary Studies II (DM8103), an assignment I rather enjoyed. I tend to be so mindful of contingencies that I often find it difficult to make declarative statements. So, it was quite refreshing to have permission to make a whole bunch of them and I was surprised at how quickly they rolled off my pen (yes, I still do a lot of writing by hand).