softvideo | vogmae

Programmatic Statements for a Facetted Videography

Thu, 09/10/2008 - 17:08 — Adrian

Original Citation:

Miles, Adrian. "Programmatic Statements for a Facetted Videography." Video Vortex Reader: Responses to Youtube. Eds. Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures
XS4All, 2008. 223-30.

abstract:

What happens to editing when video moves from a hard to a soft environment? This chapter is a rough-cut sketch that explores what video editing is, and the implications of this for an emerging, network specific video practice. While this essay discusses video with some degree of specificity the practice that is under consideration is not video art but those works that are, for want of a more accurate term at this historical point, representational and in- dexical in some manner. They’re videos of things. Such representational practices dominate internet based video practice including commercial, populist, critical and creative uses.

This essay (and the collection) is available via:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovor...

A pdf version of the essay is available below.

Triptych 3

Tue, 29/07/2008 - 22:06 — Adrian

Abstract:

A rhizome template that is a triptych, three videos with a soundtrack.

This rhizome triptych allows you to load and play three videos simultaneously, all within the one video window.

video:

Triptych 2

Tue, 29/07/2008 - 21:57 — Adrian

Abstract:

This is a triptych that allows you to load three different videos and to play them alongside each other in the 'same' movie. Each is controllable by the user.

This rhizome triptych allows you to load and play three videos simultaneously, all within a single QuickTime movie.

video:

Triptych 1

Mon, 28/07/2008 - 21:18 — Adrian

Abstract:

This allows anyone to create a triptych video work where each of the individual videos can be of indefinite duration.

This triptych rhizome template allows you to use three videos.

video:

That Moment Might Do

Mon, 17/03/2008 - 21:02 — Adrian

videoPoster:

Original Citation:

Miles, Adrian. "That Moment Might Do: Videoblogs and the Any-Instant-Whatever." Post Identity 5.1 (2007).

abstract:

This is a work that awkwardly begins to actualise a cinematic hypertextual academic documentary form. I think of it as a preliminary sketch towards a yet to be. It is also an analysis of the relation of videoblogging to television via Deleuze's concept of the 'any-instant-whatever' and the pose.

This is a QuickTime based interactive essay.

Rhizome Four: Two Loops and Sound

Mon, 14/01/2008 - 21:03 — Adrian

Abstract:

This fourth rhizome template is based on the first template. It loops two videos and plays a third which is a soundtrack. None are controllable by the user - they all just play.

This rhizome template consists of three QuickTime tracks. Two are intended to be video, which are loaded via the associated XML file.

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Rhizome Three: Paired and Sound

Mon, 14/01/2008 - 11:59 — Adrian

Abstract:

This rhizome template provides for 2 video tracks to play independently alongside each other and for a separate soundtrack to be loaded and to play independently of these video tracks.

This rhizome template is the same as rhizome two except that it now adds a soundtrack. The soundtrack, like the video tracks, is loaded via the XML file for this rhizome template.

video:

Rhizome Two: Paired

Fri, 11/01/2008 - 18:44 — Adrian

Abstract:

The second rhizome movie template. This one plays two videos alongside each other in the one video window while also providing individual controllers for each of the video panes.

This rhizome template allows you to create a movie that has two individual video tracks. These are played alongside each other in the one QuickTime Player window.

video:

Rhizome One: Two Loops

Fri, 11/01/2008 - 11:22 — Adrian

Abstract:

This is the first (and most basic) rhizome movie template. It allows you to place two different videos alongside each other. They will autoplay, and loop.

This first rhizome movie, "Two Loops" allows you to place two 320 x 240 pixel QuickTime compatible videos next to each other. Each will autoplay and loop.

video:

Rhizome Templates: Introduction

Thu, 10/01/2008 - 12:14 — Adrian

Abstract:

The rhizome templates are lightweight, QuickTime and XML based experimental movies that anyone can download and use for their own creative purposes.

This is the second iteration of the rhizome templates, so if you found this location via my essay on softvideo in