Daniel a student in Integrated Media this semester has done a lengthy critique of the pedestrian - videodefunct prototype on his blog. The closing paragraph taken from his review:
This is purely explorational; a writerly text. A conversation is in progress between the creators and the functionality and capabilities of multiple-streaming, interactive video. Its creators on the frontier, finding future pathways for video experience. It’s amazing to examine what forms and meanings videos take on when configured this way. Vlogging is evolving at breakneck speeds, video|defunct suggest where this evolution may be taking us.
Previous research into open source led to this article ‘The Cathedral and the Baazar by Eric Steven Raymond, Nov 2006. I like many others it seems who are involved in open-source software development have been influenced by some of the ideas that Raymond presents. A quote from the introduction:
Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity— came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who’d take submissions from anyoneanyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/09/flickr-gets-video-but-just-for-90-seconds/
Flickr has launched its long awaited video feature, and it’s an interesting addition. First of all, all videos are limited to 90 seconds, and secondly, only pro users can upload videos (everyone can view and embed them though). Why is that?
I did some research on this korsakow application awhile back and wanted to note the link. There is certain flexibility like creating rule scenes. From the abput page:
They are interactive - the viewer has influence on the film. They are rule-based - the author decides on the rules scenes relate to each other, he does not create a fixed order. They are generative - the order of the scenes is calculated while the viewer looks at a Korsakow-project. Korsakow-projects can only be viewed on a computer. They are delivered via internet-streaming, DVD-Rom or CD-Rom.
The VD collective got together for a hack-it-up workshop over the weekend. The main focus in the end was tackling cross-browser functionality with a focus on IE which is a mission (so we will need a bit more time to crack it). We also revamped the VD website http://videodefunct.net/ by bringing all the data together. There are a number of pages which provide a lot more details on the project: about (which includes licensing notes on the application and content), bios, prototypes, background, exhibitions, support. I also wrote a post titled ‘VD in a nutshell’, which includes some notes for presenting VD hopefully in a language that is very accessible. In a review of want we think VD is about and where we are heading we decided that “Videodefunct is a multi-channel video environment.”
