Photosynth - Navigating Pictures
Photosynth is recently developed software which allows you to upload and knit together a number of images of the same location into a navigable cyberspace. This video depicts the application of the software to the site of Stonehenge by National Geographic. This is something we could apply to the Monto or Clanbrassil Street - creating an online, navigable streetscape which could incorporate photographs of traces or objects of archaeological interest that might otherwise be glossed over.
Labels: Digital Storytelling, Technology
posted by Ian Alden Russell @ Thursday, September 18, 2008
2 Comments:
A persnickety note about labels. The term "digital storytelling" is used by lots of different folks to describe a broad spectrum of new media production practices. In the broadest sense of the definition Photosynth can be labeled "digital storytelling," but my practice of digital storytelling and the way I envision the work in the Monto Project are quite different.
For me digital storytelling is a multi-modal and multi-mediated process of authoring and performing the self within the context of a community of practitioners. Additionally, I consider opportunities for critical reflection and creative externalization of lived experiences as a central component of the digital storytelling process.
Glynda A. Hull, digital storytelling facilitator at UCB writes, "the combination of word, rhythm, rhyme, music, and message together with image... distinguishes digital storytelling from composing in other genres."
Darcy. Thanks for your feedback, and I completely agree. I think I probably used the digitalstorytelling label here reflecting the quality of the video of the application of photosynth to Stonehenge as a possible digital story.
I agree that Photosynth is basically a bit of tech kit, but I wonder whether it might be possible (probably not in the short timeframe we have here) to utilise it to activate photos someone might take of their locality and then have a video produced of them navigating the photosynth interface with a voice-over.
Thanks for the engagement - keep it coming!
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