vogmae interactive networked video practice

In hypertext criticism when students don't 'get' a hypertext they 'bite the breast' claiming the irrelevance of hypertext rather than questioning the adequacy of their own reading schemas. This brief work uses object relations psychology and its description of our relationship to art, and idea of the breast as a ‘transitional object’ for the child as a model for describing such criticism. The transitional object is that thing that the child uses to mediate its first experiences of itself as an entity separate in the world.

In this brief essay I argue for the materiality of hypertext as a necessary part of interpretation while arguing that the intent of the work is the work for itself, not to be confused with the intent of the author, reader, narrator or whatever.

Writing on specific hypertext titles appears to have commonly confused reviewing with criticism. These are two distinct though complementary genres and each ought to have quite individuated aims and objects.

This is an anthology borne from a research symposium I hosted ("I Link Therefore I Am") where all contributions where appropriated and remixed by honours students responding to a brief to reconsider what academic publishing might be if it were invented by a networked age.

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.

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.