PhD (in candidature)

//non-video/new-video/net-video

In this project-based research I explore what happens when I take my video practice into an online environment. I examine both the formal and cultural issues that the Internet poses for a video practitioners. The aim is to invent alternative frameworks for articulating and disseminating this type of video content. In a broader context, I am interested in seeing how practices that are emerging on the Internet can be used to think about new ways of producing audiovisual media.

This PhD research is being undertaken at RMIT University in the Media Department, School of Applied Communication. The research on this blog forms part of my doctoral research and may be referred to in the final submission.

Master of Arts (by Thesis), Seth Keen
Media Arts and Production, University of Technology, Sydney (2005)

Video Chaos: Multilinear narrative structuration in New Media video practice.

Abstract: The presentation of the thesis comprises the Dissertation component (66%) along with the Practice Component and the Practice Report (33%). In this Video Chaos dissertation, through an examination of current video practices, I note an emerging trend towards disseminating audio-visual content simultaneously in the form of poly-sequential narrative structures. I argue that this is a significant development within the video medium, and that this is an effect of video new media artist-practitioners’ engagement with the relationships between art and technology. Two extensive case studies are investigated and, whilst a number of issues come to the fore in this research, exploring the issue of narrative structuration is the primary focus and exploration of this dissertation.

The written components can also be downloaded from the Australian Digital Theses Program.