| D O O R S O F P E R C E P T I O N 5 | |
 |
|
| Childhood Creativity |  |
| Femke Wolting | |
Here's a project we've done at VPRO a Dutch national public broadcasting station. It's called Lifesavers. Lifesavers are a form of new media. You can't read them in a magazine, you can't watch them on TV and you can't listen to them on the radio. They're made by a new generation of media makers that don't really narrow themselves down to one medium, where they produce or they consume media. They might watch television but usually with the sound down and maybe reading a newspaper at the same time or making phone calls to friends. When they make things, they easily make film just as easily as a magazine or a web scene, because website design becomes much more like desktop publishing. You see all these people who have these homepages and they really start creating them. And when you invite them to make small interactive experiences, they should grab your attention for about five minutes and in these five minutes they should tell you a story or express an idea in a way that's not been done in traditional media. So these are not games in the sense that they have rules or that there's a goal or there's a competition. But they're sort of playful expressions of an idea. And we find that it's important to also give this new generation of media makers a platform to express these ideas. So we give them a place on the web and they can also design a page in the VPRO Guide to make an advert, or sometimes it's an integral part of the whole story. And the idea is to bring it also to television which may happen in the next year. And I'll only show a bit of the last one and then we go to the panel discussion. JA: We're going to have a couple of minutes of Uri Tzaig's tape of a game that's called Infinity. That was first played with two teams of five players in Montpellier, last June. And I'm not going to explain it. He may be on the panel. But I'd like you to see at least in outline what his work consists of. |
|
|
url: DOORS OF PERCEPTION |
|