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.
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wikipedia participatory video definition:
Participatory Video (PV) is a set of techniques to involve a group or community in shaping and creating their own film. The idea behind this is that making a video is easy and accessible, and is a great way of bringing people together to explore issues, voice concerns or simply to be creative and tell stories. It is therefore primarily about process, though high quality and accessible films (products) can be created using these methods if that is a desired outcome. This process can be very empowering, enabling a group or community to take their own action to solve their own problems, and also to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and/or other groups and communities. As such, PV can be a highly effective tool to engage and mobilise marginalised people, and to help them to implement their own forms of sustainable development based on local needs.
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I have been looking around at tagging and noticed that the ABC online use a specific style of tagging. An example ‘government-and-politics’. They sometimes use 2-3-4 word tags. This style of tagging seems to be referred to as a multi-word tag on the microformats wiki, which are done in varying ways and supported by different social media websites.
Examples of variations (world-politics world_politics world+politics world.politics WorldPolitics) delicious as far as I can tell supports all of these combinations, what microformats calls combined tags (from delicious):
The only limitation on tags is that they must not include spaces. So if your web page is about a two-word place like “San Francisco”, you may want to tag it as sf, san-francisco, SanFrancisco, san.francisco, or whatever else makes sense to you. You probably don’t want to use commas, though, since a comma will be become part of the tag.
On the videoblogging mail list David Meade in the post ‘[videoblogging] tagging posts in wordpress question’ notices some issues with WordPress where wordpress replaces a + with a dash. All pointing to a lack of consistency across tagging. ABC categorises these stories under the following”:
Every one of our stories includes metadata on things like subjects, locations, importance and genre.
Alejandro Adams, Preliminary Notes on Web-hosted Cinema, http://www.braintrustdv.com/essays/web-hosted.html
There is nothing unique about returning to early film theory in an attempt to delimit the creative uses of digital video technology. Comparing the infancy of the first manifestation of cinema with the infancy of its successor is as natural as it is profitable. Invoking, as I will, the elaborate investigations of early theorists such as Béla Balázs and Rudolf Arnheim is a way to clarify my own observations concerning digital cinema in general and Web-hosted cinema in particular.
I got his reference from AM’s blog who posted a few notes on the article.
I attended Melbourne wordcamp and caught a couple of presentations. Christine Davis the producer of the ultimate tag warrior did a presentation titles ‘Tags, Categories, Taxonomies, Folksonomies, Oh My!’. Tags where a hot topic of discussion with James Farmer pointing out that wordpress had been slow to include tags as part of the WP CMS until very recently. A key point of discussion was the difference between categories and tags. Apparently, there is a plug-in that convert categories to tags and back the other way on the premise there is no difference. Christine mentioned machine tags introduced by Flickr. From wikipedia:
They comprise three parts, a namespace, a predicate and a value.
Another reference machinetags.org There is also a connection here she suggested with Microformats. Categories where seen as being hierarchal grouping posts of similarity in a group and are more structured, used for organising content. Tags on the other hand more free form used to “determine the way things differ”. A comment in the audience suggested categories are chapters and tags the index. Davis’ response to which to uses suggested using both. Yahoo provide sites/services that recommend what tags to use like zonetag for example.
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On the ARTNODE site they used this simple method to provide the user access to a video interview in parts. Each part relating to the interview question. The answer link leads to the video excerpt on a separate page. An abstract is also provided with each interview which covers briefly their background and the premise of the interview. I note they also use quotes in text from the interviews as an introduction into each interview. The full video interview is also provided as a straight linear run of the entire interview.
These are screenshots of the set-up from the website. These screenshots are of the Alex Galloway interview which is one of six in a series with specialists critiquing digital art.
Summary of presentation by N. Katherine Hayles at Re-Mediating Literature conference at Utrecht University, July 4-6, 2007.
N. Katherine Hayles: “Narrative and Database: Remediating Literature Through Data”
Recently several theorists have proposed that database is replacing narrative as the dominant cultural form, among them Lev Manovich and Ed Folsom. This presentation will argue for that narrative is essential for human communication and culture, but it will also acknowledge that contemporary narratives are transforming through the impact of data. Remediation here implies that the feedback cycle described by Bolter and Grusin in Remediation can also be understood to take place through different cultural forms as well as through different media, where the dynamics are informed not by the hypermediation / transparency dialectic they describe but rather by the circulation through narrative and data.
An overview of a presentation by Nora Barry at ‘Remixing reality with narrative media’ narrative media’
During the 60s and the 70s, an independent cinema community was established thanks to the existence of an extensive network of alternative film clubs with branches in various parts of the world. According to Nora Barry, if independent digital cinema wants to achieve a similar situation, it would be best for it to broadcast in various “physical” environments (festivals, organising public projections) that favour contact and the creation of a community, especially in areas and regions lacking in technological resources.
One perspective from the mediamatic website titled Select and Combine, The Rise of Database Narratives
Database narrative refers to narratives whose structure exposes or thematizes the dual processes of selection and combination that lie at the heart of all stories, Kinder explains, particular data – characters, images, sounds, events – are selected from a series of databases or paradigms, which are then combined to generate specific tales.
This quote is amongst some writing about a recent new media documentary master class on mediamatic. I liked the idea of using a blog as a tool to engage in a two-way conversation as part of the project.
Florian Thalhofer, who is the inventor of the Korsakow system, showed his latest interactive multichannel documentary project about a social housing project in Bremen-Nord. He spent a month in Bremen to film and interview the locals and kept an online diary so that people could react to it immediately. So he used the Internet as well as live images as a basis to create an interactive film.