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Interactive Cinema WebLog

Emonic Environment


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Personal Moviemaking/Emonic Environment
Systems for sharing and creating movies within a web community, using cellphones with video capability.

Who:

From Nokia: Riku Suomela, Nokia Research Center
From the Media Lab: Prof. Glorianna Davenport, head of the Interactive Cinema research group, and her students Aisling Kelliher and Paul Nemirovsky
When:

2003
Where:

MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Why:

It was an opportunity to expand understanding of visual language, and create a new form of audio-visual literacy.
How:

Using Nokia 3650 phones, and a group journal for publishing and sharing media.

Details

    Nokia approached Interactive Cinema before the release of a cellphone that can record video. They wanted to tackle problems associated with the widespread use of video-sharing and storytelling with cellphones.

    The phone lets you engage in types of interaction that were non-existent before. The collaboration is looking into how a cellphone can be used as a real-time controller of system properties, and a media gatherer/contributor.

    The Interactive Cinema WebLog became the group journal, accessible from the Nokia phones. Paul Nemirovsky's Emonic Environment also contributed a means for improvisational creation, modification and exchange of videos and sound.

    Next step—a visual language is needed for creation of media in small form factor devices.

 

 

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