What is Videodefunct? Videodefunct is a project that explores the development of interactive, multi-channel video environments. It involves the development of an online video system alongside the production of prototypes as discrete media objects.
The collective Keith Deverell, Seth Keen and David Wolf in collaboration with RMIT University started Videodefunct in 2006 and the project has received considerable interest and funding for further development. This includes RMIT University Design Institute system development funding and a recent collaboration with a major International NGO.
What is the key objective of the project? The aim is to utilise social media functionalities to create new ways of classifying and displaying video content. VD is a project that explores a mutant form of online video content, which differs from the linear, single window clips that users are familiar with on the meta-platform YouTube. In the context of this research, YouTube is seen as a publishing platform for single channel moving-image content that is predominately produced offline and remains largely unaltered by the Internet environment. In contrast, the aim with this research project is to produce video content online, which responds to the inherent characteristics of the Internet and web2.0.
What is the VD online video system? The VD system is a customised Video Content Management System based on the blogging application WordPress. Built using a combination of the PHP and jQuery programming languages, the system utilises tagging and folksonomy classification as a way to present related video content as multiple clips in a multi-window interface, the ‘Videodefunct Player’.
Software Licensing: Videodefunct brings together a variety of application software
that have varying licenses but generally most are licensed with GNU GPL. The Videodefunct collective supports free software principles and plans to make all the code available when we produce the first stable version.
Content Licensing: All the content including this blog and what is in the Videodefunct prototypes is licensed as open content under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia license.
Contact: seth [dot] keen [at] rmit [dot] edu [dot] au
