Select Media Festival 3
Insurgent Media Arts | October 13-22 2004 | Chicago U$A
October 13, 2004
Opening Party for Select Media Festival 3
October 13, 2004
8pm
Opening Party for Select Media Festival 3
Rodan 1530 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Join us for cocktails, sweet music and the unveiling of Meta CC, an installation by Alex Killough, Tyler Nordgren and Chuck Clark.
Meta CC
An installation by Alex Killough, Tyler Nordgren and Chuck Clark
Meta-CC seeks to create an open forum for realtime discussion, commentary, and cross-referncing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, tele-text subtitling, on demand video streaming, and search engines, the Open Captioning format employed by Meta-CC will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The Fox News Channel in the U.S. will be archived as their initial source material, but the system is adaptable for use with any cable news or television network.
Admission: $5 suggested donation. Be the first on your block to receive a copy of the new Select #8 DVD containing works featured at SMF2 and 3!
Meta-CC
Meta-CC
An installation by Alex Killough, Tyler Nordgren and Chuck Clark
Meta-CC seeks is an open forum for realtime discussion, commentary, and cross-referencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, tele-text subtitling, on demand video streaming, and search engines, the Open Captioning format employed by Meta-CC allows users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The Fox News Channel in the U.S. will be archived as our initial source material, but the system is adaptable for use with any cable news or television network.
Meta-CC's system will separate a single video stream from the cable news source's line-21 closed caption element. The decoded text from the captions is then used to create an archive of possible topics for debate/discussion, and cross referenced online to provide similar news stories from alternative news sources, as well as background information on the reporters themselves. As users view the captions and video, they add their own commentary to the stream. This commentary appears in real time as a news ticker superimposed upon the original video source, side-by-side with the original captions, which other viewers may then read and respond to. As users comments are displayed, they are also added to the topical archive created by the original video captions.
As the archive grows, so do the different divergent topics and resources available to the user. While responding to a particular news story, the Meta CC engine may present a user with a list of alternative sources for information about that particular topic, along with portions of the archive deemed relevant by the engine to the present conversation. A user may then tailor his or her commentary to more appropriately (and perhaps more persuasively) engage the issue at hand.