Interactive Video: Experiments and Demonstrations of New Technology

New York Foundation for the Arts April 28, 2011

Brian Chirls creates tools that integrate video with the Internet in ways that add information and functionality to existing programming and create new ways of providing, watching and interacting with moving images. Here, for example, is a State of the Union speech broadcast on PBS, with the ability to tweet the audience to an exact spot anywhere in the recording. And here viewers have the ability to jump to source footage (crowd-sourced in this case) and to access photographs and text as the story unfolds. These accessible technologies allow new possibilities for producing and promoting documentary, fiction, games and interactive media art.

Brian Chirls is the founder of Three Eyed Labs, a research and development lab created to develop original cross-media content, new technology and innovative business models for media artists. His Crowd-Controls computer application gives filmmakers (or anyone) the ability to monitor and map audience interest in their work.

Links:
http://chirls.com/
http://code.chirls.com/sotu-video/
http://code.chirls.com/buttercamp/
http://crowdcontrols.cc/
http://code.chirls.com/whiteknuckles/