vogmae interactive networked video practice

This vog is a simple QuickTime movie which contains an auto HREF track. This plays with the movie but is not visible, it contains URLs which are automatically loaded and sent to the browser when they arrive. In this example these URLs target a frame within the web page and so as the video plays a simple text poem, consisting of new frames, are loaded. The object of this work is to reverse the usual relation between video (and image) and text so that rather than the video illustrating the text, here the poem (the text) can only play, can only be read, if and when the video plays.

This is the first vog I ever created. It is a still image (a photo) with a text track. The text track contains a single HREF link which is clickable, and appears as a blue URL. The link goes to Greg Ulmer's web site. The text is taken directly from an email. This was early web video days where I really wanted work to be bandwidth friendly. Dial up was predominant so I believed that any video format needed to be network appropriate to be viable and sustainable - for vogging to work it had to work in the everyday and not for an imaginary future where bandwidth didn't matter. This work also used the most basic things, just a still image and a text track in QuickTime. Of course these were also things that a lot of people didn't know about - that you could stretch the duration of a still image in QuickTime Pro so that the image is not drawn 24 times a second for the duration of the work but just shown once. While text tracks, which are text and not rendered into the surface of the video (which is why the URL is live) was also something that a lot of people didn't know about.