Video

In past months I have been researching work of artist Michelle Teran, that resulted in an extensive interview on her work, methods and positions when working with social and media networks within urban environments
(http://MichelleTeran.interview.pr0be.info/)

Michelle Teran will conduct 2 day WORKSHOP as a part of Imaginary Property event City Lab starting on Thursday 21st at noon in Annex (workspace of Jan van Eyck Academie) and concluding it with public action on evening of Friday 22nd (could be as late as 23:59 ;-)
It will include technical tutorial, discussion, city research, experiments with different media technologies and setups, mapping walks and maybe something else...

oups...me running late... seems that morning is/will be dedicated to Pad.ma which was partialy presented last night (video should be available soon) at the public event at OKNO...this time presentation is more of a discussion on exames from practice/life/media...pad.ma licence (free-software-licence with tech spin on Low-Res)...

...continuing a bit slower (practical work brings tech issues) in using utilities like ffmpeg2theora, ffmpeg, dvgrab... using HD source material, linux pipes...also discussing different container options (ogg for web video and matroska for Blue-Ray and DVD ripping due to a number of features it became popular in Anime community). Somewhat less dynamic ;)

Host institution is wonderfull flamish cultural center PianoFabrique...

With (very) short delay and (very) few participants missing workshop started off with quite serious and detailed overview of licensing policies, economic relations, technological limitations and much more from the digital video world (from perspective of open source developer/producer/user)... as (somewhat) expected Jan Gerber of (0xdb and pad.ma fame) is showing some of the amazing examples of what future version of web browsers (primarily Firefox and Opera) with support natively video+svg+JavaScript ...this will enable us to do/see - AMAZING NEW WEB of VIDEOS and not just web pages ...while avoiding embedded propertary technologies/content (flash & other plugins)!
Presentation of http://MetaVid.org/ was also impressive demo of what can be done using semantic wiki data JavaScript applets and SMILE (the fact that SMILE is back in big style - brings SMILE back to my face ;-)

Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based organisation for Arts and Media. 17-23.11.2008 for the second time international workshop is organized to mediate know-how transfer in this field both between int. software/service developers/maintainers/educators and (primarily local) content producers/users.
IMP researchers Lilia Perez and Željko Blaće joining this workshop and will be on/off blogging/reporting...