Daniel Harris

Frameburst

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In brief

Research theme

The networked viewfinder

Course

MA Creative Practice for the Narrative Environment

College

St. Martins School of Art & Design

Year

Class of 2004

Project website

mobileframes

The detail

Frameburst is a collaborative photography and remembering system that runs on mobile camera phones.

The resulting Frameburst images are neither still photographs, nor motion pictures. Instead, they resonate of both. The images are fixed in their location, yet extend along other, normally invisible axes.

The images evolve the idea of snapshot photography. Shots of a site are taken by many different people, at many different times. Sometimes, the shots can be years apart. The shots are temporally or spatially composited together, creating a dynamic, time-based portrait of a place that can continue to grow, without overshadowing the past.

You can find some of the results of my experiments with the system with these videos. I'm excited to see how others will use the system. Upload your sequences or images to youtube - or send them to me.

Find out more, and get the opensource software to make your own from the project website