hosts an online laboratory for pedagogic experimentation and research into the possibilities of non-linear, networked video production. The site utilizes the Lepton toolset, a custom developed video collaboration tool. Lepton provides the means to create and visualize non-linear works in which the interconnections of submissions to a video database are obvious and emphasized. Each video database created with the Lepton toolset is hand-drawn by its makers and these drawings can be shared amongst the participants and external viewers.
The visualization and tracking of how ideas are associated across and within cultures of media makers is the focus of our ongoing Call and Response video dialog project. Call and Response began as a simple, semester-long video dialog between two groups of video students, one at the Rhode Island School of Design in the U.S. and the other at the University of Yaounde in Cameroon. The project is adapted to each new dialog-based collaboration and has gone on to include participants, educators and educational institutions in over a dozen countries, including Argentina, Cameroon, Finland, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, South Africa, Sweden and ESBA Valenciennes, France.
For more information please contact
Daniel Peltz [dpeltz@risd.edu]
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