Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

David Wolf has made his MA Exegesis—Vidgets: The Development and Use of Interactive, Network Based Video Works—available online and it's worth a read. The paper deals with these questions:

• How can new audio-visual works (vidgets) be created to explore and utilise the capacity for real time interactivity and network awareness found in everyday computer technology?
• What can we learn by looking at the use of real time interactivity and network/environmental awareness in the histories of media and art practice and how can these this inform the development of new works?
• What happens when video media art works shift from being fixed and self contained ‘objects’ to dynamic, distributed systems inviting user interaction and performance?

David has been working with interactive works using QuickTime for years using both LiveStage Pro and Quartz Composer. This is an excellent overview, be sure not to miss the appendix containing a complete list of his works.