In today’s workshop (week 11 Wednesday) I will introduce you to a piece of software called Korsakow. Korsakow is a piece of software that authors interactive video pieces, yet can provide a tool to notice.
We will be completing this exercise using Korsakow.
Unlike, other editing programs such as Premiere or Final Cut, where you create fixed sequences between video parts, in Korsakow you create possible relations between video parts. What I mean by possible relations is that while you create rules, through a tagging system, which constrains what video parts can possibly connect to each other, there is an unpredictable quality to the software which allows you to notice visual resonances between parts which you may not have noticed.
The exercise we will be doing in class today will be downloading this demo version of Korsakow.
From here, we will import in some media we have (preferably from our task four projects) and export a random Korsakow film to see what we notice when the software creates relations between parts.
Some of you might find Korsakow a suitable tool for you to use for your final projects, while for the rest of you it might allow you to notice new things in your media objects.
Here are examples of some Korsakow films that have been made (you made to download and/or enable the Adobe Flash Plugin in your browsers):
My film Sometimes I See Palm Trees
Matt Soar’s Ceci N’est Pas Embres
Matt Soar’s Fibonacci Film
Florian Thalhofer’s Forgotton Flags
Florian Thalhofer’s Planet Galata
Adrian Miles’s Fragments
And there are more to find on the showcase page of the Korsakow 6 site here and the Korsakow 5 site here.
We’ll see how much we get through today and might continue in next Wednesday’s workshop.