| Adrian Miles on Tue, 1 Jun 2004 06:54:28 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> softvideo essay draft |
hi all a second essay on softvideography is available as a draft at: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/CybercultureSoftvideography.pdf The essay is entitled "Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice' the first para runs: I open the box to unveil my new home computer. It might be portable, it might not, but if I�m at all interested in making my new purchase the �digital hub� of my new �digital lifestyle� then my computer probably has several USB ports, an IEEE 1394 (also known as FireWire or iLink) port, DVD burner, and if I went for all the options, 802.11b or 802.11g wi-fi and bluetooth. What this means, outside of the lifestyle advertising that accompanies such hardware, is that it is now technically trivial for me to connect my IEEE 1394 enabled domestic video camera to my computer, capture high quality full resolution video, edit this video, and then print this video back to tape or export it in a digital format for DVD authoring, email, or to put online. But, aside from digital home movies, what would I now do with all this audiovisual empowerment? In this chapter I�d like to suggest two answers to this question, one looks backwards to our existing paradigms of video production, distribution, and presentation, while the other looks, if not forwards, then at least sideways, to recognise that desktop networked technologies might offer novel alternatives for not only production and distribution, but for what constitutes video within networked digital domains. This possible practice treats video as a writerly space where content structures are malleable, variable, and more analogous to hypertext than to what we ordinarily understand digital video to be. I call this practice softvideography. Comments and criticism welcomed. cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/adrian interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]