“Exploring the digital medium as a means for creating compositions through the logic of code and a little playful imagination. ”

Eric Natzke works on the intersection of design and technology. He uses Flash and advanced coding to generate beautiful still images and movies. See his Flickr accout, too.

The first article is online here!

As more and more websites use video content, linear narrative structures compete with the decentral logic of the hypertextual internet.

It the first part of three papers on the growing importance of storytelling on the web.

As I just was speaking about media theorist Lev Manovich yesterday, today I stumbled about one of the new moving media forms he describes in his works - Spatial Montage. Spatial Montage basically means multiframe applications, and the site of visual effects artist Nastu Abootalebi is a perfect example for the possibilities of this technique. You can watch the pre- and postproduction versions of his works in two screens nex to each other.

Nastuh’s side also shows the limitations of Spatial Montage. Although its only two screens, it’s sometimes very hard to follow the action in both frames.

The side was created by Scholz&Volkmer.

Lev Manovich’s “The Language of New Media” is the most detailed theory on the new media available up to date.

Being a close observer of both media, the computer and cinema, he explores different aesthetics and functionalities of today’s media like Remixing, Interaction, Montage or Compositing. He connects those phenomena with their cultural effects. What sets him apart from many of his scientific colleagues is his deep knowledge of progressive technologies. Therefore you can find enlightening articles on subjects like Flash, After Effects or database technologies on his website.

If you would like to read some of his papers in German, buy his book “Black Box - White Cube” with articles from 2000-2005.

Hey Everyone! moving web is online! But what is it all about?

about movingweb.
moving web is place to share thoughts about all forms of moving content on the web. As bandwidth keeps growing, the internet will converge with the moving media: film, tv & video.
Therefore the Internet as a textbased information medium seems to be the past – moving web explores the future possibilities of the internet as a more immersive entertainment medium.

We choose a rather broadly based perspective on the theme of motion on the web – Flash Video, Mobile Web, WebTV, Viral Video, Interactive Narration – discussed with the emphasis on how moving content will change the web.

the articles.
Besides the daily posts there will be some deeper obrservations on various moving subjects in the articles section. If you’re interested in writing an article for moving web, get in touch with us.

the people.
moving web is a project of Berlin based CrossMediaDirector Simon Ruschmeyer - working on the interface between classical moving media (film&video) and new interactive forms (web/media art). For more information and project inquiries see his website www.ruschmeyer.org.

Thanks to David Hoffmann for setting up the blog.

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