Final Project

In the later half of the class I began to focus my website on compressions and distribution of video over the Internet. In the end I created pages for different for compressions formats old and new and created videos that showcased the effects the compression formats have on video. On the front page of my site I wrote a statement that describes what I want to do with my website, This is a website about the texture of video and how the content of our video is always being altered and transformed by the format. I want to create video and animations that embellish the effects we get through compressing video and create content that speaks to tools used to share it. When using technology much of the process is incomprehensible and some times even unobservable, with the finally product being the only evidence of how technology is changing our video. There are many types of video formats and each of these formats contains a philosophy for how to recreate video. I believe video formats have a lot of personality; they have traits and priorities and favor things like movements over colour or fluidity over exchangeability. This website will be a mix of found videos I feels exemplify the characteristics of their format and animations of videos I create that play of the notion of compressions and embellish is to explore the personality of video formats. I feel that I have been able to carve out a small site that is starting to explore the effects of video compression in new ways and I hope to continue working on this website through the summer. I would like to both add more compression formats and pages to the site but I would also like to flesh out each page with more videos and writing on the format. I built my website with a friend using Dreamweaver, it was important to gain some experience building a website that I could see and adjust the code. I did not want to use a website like blogger or word press for my website, even though I think these websites are useful and have been used to create great websites I felt a website attempting to deconstruct the aesthetics of distribution should exist out side of the web we see on websites like blogger. I have learned a lot creating the website and hope to buy a domain and continue building websites for my art in the future. http://webspace.ocad.ca/~pm08kn/