The LiVE show at the Beall Center for Art and Technology at the University of California, Irvine features metavid in the shows collection. The pieces explored the meaning of “live” in the context of heavy mediation of day-to-day interactions. Karen Finley piece, titled “business as usual” highlighted a constant stream of deaths as a consequence of US aggression in the Iraqi region via unattended computers constantly printing out large stacks of the names of people killed in the conflict. MTAA & RSG’s Want consists of 900 video clips in which individuals declare something that they desire, which are then triggered by search requests from a peer-to-peer network. More information about all the pieces is on the site.

A new feature is now available that facilitates the remote embedding of metavid or other ogg theora /annodex content within webpages. featured in this article post is a clip from metavid:

check out the external embed page in the wiki for implementation details. Will be interesting to see how this new feature gets used Either leave comments here or in the wiki page to request new features, complain, or let us know how it’s being used.

Here are some relatively short answers to what metavid is about.

Metaivd addresses the problem of undemocratic systems of engagement with political proceedings. We argue that in commercial content production there is an inherently undemocratic assumption in which there are “producers” of information and “consumers” of information.

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This is a test post to make sure this works.  Watch this space and we’ll have some project updates in no time.