Investigating
the Networked
Viewfinder
+ Frameburst and Videowalks
are the key practical outcomes for this body of research
+ Until now, image making has been polarised from image consumption. In
particular, the age of mass media defined audiences as passive in their
consumption, static in their location, and geographically removed from
the subject - while producers were able to control this consumption, removed
in space and time from their audience.
+ From the works of The Old Masters to the popularity of digital photography,
the power has evolved from an elite group of artists to anyone who has
a mobile camera phone, securing them the right to frame, understand, and
share their perspective of a landscape.
+ Traditionally, the nature of media and
imagery has geographically dislocated us from these landscapes. But now,
through the computerised and networked mobile viewfinder, the landscape
and the same, mediated landscape come crashing together, blurring the
edges between modes of production, consumption, collaboration, perspective,
and time.
+ This body of research
and experimentation form an
investigation into this crash and cover technological,
cultural and artistic areas of study.
+ Research & Development by Daniel
Harris