Forecasts
The Next Decade of Video Technology
Over the next ten years, new video technologies will reshape the way we communicate, create, and document our lives. Anticipating, considering and understanding this technology foundation is an essent...
Sense and Cognition
While reading text, the eyes are activated while all other senses are quieted. Thinking and intellect, in modern times, have been defined by the ability to understand and create text-based communic...
Everyone is a Mediamaker
We can safely assume that 10 years from now, video editing tools will be as ubiquitous and accessible to the public as word processing is today. It's a brave new world out there. Productions that w...
New Medium/New Rules
Dictionaries, manuals of style, grammar books, thesauri—these guides and conventions allow us to understand and utilize text. These rules developed out of formal systems of use, as well as vernac...
Video and Social Change
If the pen is mightier than the sword, is the camcorder mightier than the tank? The democratized and decentralized mediascapes of the 21st century have many mediamakers and scholars buzzing around ...
Remix, mashup, take-down
As technological advances and social shifts change what it means to "own" what we create, mediamakers around the world are wondering how we know who owns what. Staking a claim on rights to an image...