reminiscent of interactive cinema experiments done in late 90s/early 2000s via http://mf.media.mit.edu/
very cool! On Feb 19, 2008 1:49 AM, Seth Keen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Jay for the post on the videodefunct project. > > The project certainly has been influenced by Adrian Miles work with > vogs and his writing on softvideography http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/ > thinking/softvideo03 and the VD collective are similarily interested > in exploring video on the Internet moving beyond being single-channel > and linear like a version of TV and Cinema on the web. > > As you mention VD simply breaks down what would normally be a larger > linear video into smaller granular clips, that are tagged and > categorised on posting into the vlog. The user then uses this > metadata to reassemble these clips in a customised player attached to > the vlog as a page. In the end the vlog becomes a larger thematic > video work made up of a bunch of smaller clips. > > In Adrian's rhizomes http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/doing/rhizome I > think a similar type of interactivity and granularity occurs where > Quicktime in this case is used as a container to bring in a number of > varying content types in varying order. Rhizomes in a way are > configured in a variety of ways to display this content like the > customized player page in VD. Both often explore video being > displayed simultaneously in more than one frame. (multi-channel) > > As you mention we are planning a release of VD as an application/ > platform after a bit more development and content testing. i.e We > will have it working cross-platform in IE soon. In the meantime we > are very open to feedback and questions. > > Some more links to follow up on the project: > > PROTOTYPES – (Please note QuickTime 7.3.1, Firefox browser 2.0.0.9 or > later required for viewing.) > > http://www.videodefunct.net/banter/ The Banter prototype is an > ongoing audiovisual report on the videodefunct project that provides > critique and background details on the system. This example begins to > show how interviews can be sliced up and re-assembled. > > http://www.videodefunct.net/pedestrian/ Pedestrian (first prototype) > http://www.videodefunct.net/theInvertedPedestrian/ The Inverted > Pedestrian > http://www.videodefunct.net/theDrunkenTruth/ The Drunken Truth > > VD collective blogs: > Keith Deverell - http://greyspace.com.au/blog/ > Seth Keen - http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/ > David Wolf - http://dpwolf.net/blog/ > > David Wolf' s exegesis - Vidgets: The Development and Use of > Interactive, Network Based Video Works - http://dpwolf.net/blog/ > 2007/12/ma-exegesis-now-online/ > > Blogged notes: > > http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/01/30/hammering-vlogs/ > - on showinabox as part of the hammering vlog workshop in Amsterdam - > differences to VD approach... > > http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/02/06/videodefunct-notes/ - > videodefucnt notes - tagging > > http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2007/11/06/plain-vanilla/ plain vanilla > post on pedestrian prototype > Presentation 1# post - http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2007/06/01/ > videodefunct-presentation-1/ > > > On 19/02/2008, at 8:21 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > > > For literally years now, Adrian Miles has spoken of "interactive > > videoblogging". > > Ive always had a difficult time getting my head around it. > > Last month I met a couple of his students and colleagues from RMIT > > who shows > > me their project (influenced by Adrian). > > http://www.videodefunct.net/ > > > > Videodefunct is an experimental research project that focuses on > > inventing a > > > hybrid vlog. A number of work-in-progress prototypes are being > > developed in > > > the open source blog publishing system WordPress. A key objective > > is to > > > design an interactive interface that explores the presentation of > > online > > > video from a poetic perspective. > > > > > > > So they are using wordpress to allow people to scan through short > > raw clips > > in any order they want, allowing for "stories" to be approach > > differently. > > http://www.videodefunct.net/theDrunkenTruth > > Just click around and you can see how an event that was shot from > > different > > angles could be viewed in this way. > > > > They said they'd release the code open source so other can experiment. > > > > Jay > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/ > http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/ > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
