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

>>
seth.keen@...
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/




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