+ Frameburst is a new way to take photographs.
It is a system designed to enable the co-creation of images, by connecting
the increasing number of mobile camera phones in the world today.
+ Frameburst is a simple, open source
system which runs using Java on a number of mobile camera phones and a
server.
+ Click
here to see a video about Frameburst
+ Click
here to see the latest Frameburst Portraits, and participate in adding
to them
+ Click here for
detailed instructions on how to get involved.
+ The resulting Frameburst images
are neither still photographs,
nor motion pictures. Instead, they resonate of both. The images are fixed
in 
their
location, yet extend along other, normally invisible axes.
+ The images evolve the idea of snapshot photography.
Shots of a site are taken by many different people, at many different
times. Sometimes, the shots can be years apart. The shots are temporally
or spatially composited together, creating a dynamic, time-based portrait
of a place that can continue to grow, without overshadowing the past.
+ Having the ability to author parts of a composited portrait in time
allows participants the freedom to insert stop-motion or time-lapse sequences
into the image. Different participants can offer further frames to be
added to the sequences, illustrating the unique, multi-perspective nature
of the system.
+ Frameburst Sites are designed to be run by volunteers, who download
the server software which runs
on a networked, bluetooth enabled Mac or PC. 
Once
running, the Frameburst Site is active, and the portraiture can begin.
The number of potential Frameburst Sites is limited only by the number
of volunteers willing to run the servers.
+ Participants within bluetooth range of the Frameburst Server can add
to the portrait by seeing the last frame that was shot by another person.
The frame is downloaded into the client application on the participant's
phone and used as a way to line up the next shot, whether it be a new
frame to add to a time-based sequence, or as a spatial addition to the
portrait.
+ Future Frameburst development will continue as a collaboration with
Dennis
Lumkerman