Digital video, understood as moving images and sound, is one of the most important information media for the XXI century. The transition from analogue to digital formats has taken place in the last decade through breakthroughs like the evolution of compression standards and the dissemination of non-linear editing environments. Still, this infrastructure is unavailable to the general user, closed, proprietary, specialized, and dominated by a closed circle of initiated professionals. The new generation of digital video infrastructure and tools have to be open, standard and available to the literate, yet common, computer user. These users are generic authors and writers that will manipulate video information just as they do today with text or static images. Authoring criteria and environments for digital video can no longer be designed strictly for a specific production goal, video reuse and repurposing will be the rule. The next breakthrough, which is presented in the following talk, consists of the generalization of tools for "digital video publishing".
Sprecher: Dr. Heimo Müller
Studiengangleiter Informationsdesign
Fachhochschule Joanneum, Graz
Wann: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001, 14:15 - 15:45
Wo: HS 1, Universität Klagenfurt
Dr. Heimo Müller studierte Mathematik in Graz und Wien (Dissertation:
Data Space Semantics). Die berufliche Laufbahn führte Heimo Müller von
Graz (Joanneum Research), Salzburg (Lehrauftrag am Studiengang
Multimedia Art), Berlin (Berater für das Europäische Filmzentrum
Babelsberg) und Amsterdam (Forschungsstipendium an der Freien
Universität Amsterdam) zurück nach Graz, wo er seit 1999 den
Studiengang Informationsdesign der Fachhochschule Joanneum leitet. Seine
Forschungsgebiete umfassen die Bereiche Multimedia (insbesondere Film
und Video) und Informationsvisualisierung.