VogBook 01

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Vogbook 1." Inflect 2 (2004). http://www.ce.canberra.edu.au/inflect/02/miles/link.htm

abstract: 

A pdf 'scroll' that contains three, embedded interactive movies. This is an experiment in 'movie books'.

The VogBook is a an interactive QuickTime work that is published and presented via PDF.

softvideography: digital video as postliterate practice

abstract: 

Softvideo is what happens when the computer is the only medium of publication for video. This essay details the implications and softvideo and describes some teaching projects that use softvideo.

Below is a link to a draft book chapter, to appear in "Emerging Small Tech", University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming. Eds Byron Hawk, Ollie Oviedo and David Rieder.

Desktop Vogging: Tutorial

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Desktop Vogging: Part One ." Fine Art Forum 17.3 (2003)

abstract: 

A tutorial that uses QuickTime Pro to show how you can edit in QuickTime and its implications for softvideo and video blogging as softvideo and QuickTime lets us make creative, low bit rate video.

This is an online tutorial that I wrote in 2003 as a way to show some of the things that could be done with QuickTime Pro.

Blogs in Media Education

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning." Australian Screen Ed.41 (2006): 66-9.

abstract: 

Introduction to the integration and use of blogs in the teaching of media studies.

Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning

Genuine Rich Media Blogging

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "A Vision for Genuine Rich Media Blogging." Uses of Blogs. Eds. Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 213-22.

abstract: 

I identify which material affordances of networked writing blogs exploit, and then use this as the basis for a critique of video blogging. From this I argue for a different video blog practice where video is more 'blog like' and network aware and porous.

Blogs are a rich, diverse and quintessentially disparate medium expressing the internet as a network of noise, connection, communication and difference.

Softvideography

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Softvideography." Cybertext Yearbook 2002-2003. Eds. Markku Eskelinen and Raine Koskimaa. Vol. 77. Jyväskylän: Research Center for Contemporary Culture, 2003. 218-36.

abstract: 

Essay where the term softvideo is introduced. This explores the possibilities and affordances of video when the computer and network is treated as the form of consumption and not only distribution.

Interactive video has much that it could learn from hypertext.

Blogs: Distributed Documentaries of the Everyday

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Blogs: Distributed Documentaries of the Everyday." Metro.143 (2005): 66-70.

abstract: 

An essay for an Australian media journal that begins to identify the ways in which blogs and blogging are similar to documentary practice. Uses Bill Nichol's work to help sketch it out.

Blogs: distributed documentaries of the everyday.

Affect + Atlas

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Affect + Atlas." Affective Atlas 01 Symposium. Melbourne, October 24, 2007.

abstract: 

Slides from a brief introduction at the Affective Atlas 01 Symposium (Melbourne, October 2007) outlining why the larger project is entitled "affective atlas". Uses Deleuze's concept of affect and applies it to a digital atlas.

The notes haven't been included with the slides, as the slides will form the basis of a much more extensive essay.

Riposte

Original Citation: 

Miles, Adrian. "Adrian Miles Responds to Hypertexts and Interactives." Electronic Book Review (2004).

abstract: 

My series of critical responses to the contributors of the "Hypertexts and Interactives" section of the First Person Reader.

I was invited (one of many) to be one of the respondents to a section of Wardrip-Fruin and Harrigan's MIT Press book "First Person". My response is to the Hypertexts and Interactives section.

Network Literacies (brief version)

Original Citation: 

This is an edited version of an article by Adrian Miles, edited by Elizabeth Tuckerman (RMIT) for inclusion in the RMIT education journal Ed.

abstract: 

Introduction to what network literacy is, and its implications for media education.

The concept of literacy