Comments on: Scrap: Making Propaganda Movies at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

By: And He Blogs » Online Video Editors

And He Blogs » Online Video Editors — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:42:32 +0000

[...] why am I researching online video editors? Because Jim Groom is starting to horn in on my territory that’s why! Check out the great resource (and example of online video editor) that he found [...]

By: jimgroom

jimgroom — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:01:14 +0000

Chris,

I love it, particularly this:

Once the tools of creation have been turned over to the people to propagate and distribute as they like… the content itself is freed from the hegemony of the platform, the institution and the limitations of the geographically-determined audience.

You just don’t get comments like that often enough. Framing museums and Archives as highly politicized, and potentially liberating, institutions is essential to allowing the public the ability to work through authoring, quoting and more generally interpreting our multi-mediated past. What strikes me here, is that universities are not, at least directly, coupled with these two. And I, for one, think I know why -very few universities have actually taken the initiative to push the unbelievable importance of teaching students how to interpret, critique, and/or author, in a number of mediums using a variety of tools. Museums and Archives may be the gatekeepers for such resources, but it is up to universities (if they plan on being relevant in the next 50 years) to re-frame their curriculum in light of these developments. How are we asking students to author, quote, research, etc., at our universities? Moreover, how much have universities invested in making their own private collections of rare books, manuscripts, etc. accessible to the public? I really think that acknowledging and wrestling with these questions is the key to defining a transitional vision for the future of the university over the next decade.

By: Chris Maddocks

Chris Maddocks — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:42:48 +0000

This approach represents the future of online content delivery - especially given the rash of litigation related to content delivery.

We have seen copyright news of Google in Europe, Viacom, the Smithsonian licensing its images to Corbis and YouTube receiving its weekly cease-and-desist. The problems with these cases, is not the devlivery mechanism (Web 2.0 tools) but rather the source materials and content.

Archives and Museums, as the maintainers of public domain images and cultural content, stand at the nexus between the content and distribution/public dispursement. Once the tools of creation have been turned over to the people to propagate and distribute as they like (via blogs, email, personal websites) the content itself is freed from the hegemony of the platform, the institution and the limitations of the geographically-determined audience. Think the long tail writ large…

By: Jim Spadaccini

Jim Spadaccini — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:24:36 +0000

Thanks for the mention here. You may be interested in blog post I did a few weeks ago, Online video editors and Web 2.0 video sites. We’re working on new and much improved version of the flash video editor–this one using NASA video assets.

By: Gardner

Gardner — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:11:28 +0000

And there’s one proposal from UMW already in the NMC hopper–keepin’ my fingers crossed on that one.

By: jimgroom

jimgroom — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:42:06 +0000

Becausse you can sing it, we will bring it. Thanks for the encouragment, Alan, I think you’re dead on, the tools are there already, they just need an occasion to be framed appropriately for academia -enter NMC’s Web Video conference.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:31:25 +0000

Bring it on, a great presentation idea! The range of web based video creation tools seems rather underused, understated, in academia. Bring on the JumpCuts, the Video mixer apps!