RE: [-empyre-] interactive video software

[Barbara Lattanzi <threads@wildernesspuppets.net>]

At 01:21 AM 3/5/2005, Jim wrote:

> The interesting things about interactive video for the Web/Net, compared
> with the typical VJ situations, are that the interactivity and pace are in
> the hands of the audience; the audience is globally distributed


I would add that Jim Andrew's own recent production for the web "On Lionel 
Kearns" explores this area of audience-controlled pacing in a powerful and 
distinctive way.  It is built with Director and compiled in "shockwave" 
format for the web.

During the latter half of a vast and multipart work, he uses a miniature of 
the screen itself as a control gadget.  In other words, instead of using 
the mouse as a tracking device over the entire screen, the viewer feedback 
occurs in an embedded mirror image.  The mirror image metaphorically 
suggest the appearance of an analog feedback loop (recursive image within 
image within image) since this visual control device also changes 
dynamically as a mirror of whatever is occuring on screen.

Barbara

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