The Videodefunct project and online video system have been developed as a collaboration between Keith Deverell, Seth Keen and David Wolf, with the School of Media and Communication and the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.
Description of video engine:
Videodefunct is a customised WordPress theme that includes a type of video player feature that provides the potential to play numerous clips back online in varying multiple video window configurations. This additional web page we called the Videodefunct Player. The chosen interface design of this first VD player featured a triptych composition, which allowed three videos to be viewed simultaneously alongside each other. The WordPress CMS is used to upload and classify the video content as small video fragments using the category and tag features.
A description of the research from the article published in the Video Vortex reader.
Videodefunct (VD) is a project that explores an alternative form of online video content, which differs from the linear, single window clips that users are familiar with on the meta-platform YouTube. In the context of this research, YouTube is seen as a publishing platform for moving-image content that is predominately produced offline and remains largely unaltered by the Internet environment. A version of Internet TV, that continues the tradition of passive viewers sitting back and watching moving-imagery from beginning to end. In contrast, the aim with this research project is to produce video content online, which responds to some of the inherent characteristics of the Internet and web2.0.
Seth Keen, ‘Videodefunct: Online video is not dead’ in Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Vol. 4. G. Lovink & S. Niederer, eds. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Culture, p 231-37 (2008)
Screenshots from the Glasshouse Birdman prototype:
