Open Source Video Workshop

Collage and Code, was the subject of the morning session. In it Michael Murtaugh spoke about his ideas dealing with what he calls "collage" editing as his preferred technique in manipulating video. As the title of the session clearly states, he was referring to collage achieved mainly by software and coding. In the first part of his presentation he explained that he had found in .srt files (the conventional file extension used for subtitles) a very powerful and simple resource for experimenting with the time line and the time code.

In session 04 Bitnik.org gave a brilliant presentation about their general philosophy summarized in the slogan "A hack a day." As an example, they showed images and gave a detailed description of their Opera Calling (Arias for All) presented in 2007, at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich. In this project, they placed "bugs" made with old cellphones inside the Zürich Opera House. This phones were connected to an application fed with the whole city's white pages.