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Village Voice - Ramesh Srnisvasan
Ramesh Srinivasan has worked for a long time in a community of Somali
refugees in Boston. When listening to their stories, Srinivasan wanted
to use the Internet as a form to engender the creation of new types of
oral tradition. The interface works as a montage-based system that can
look at the multiple paths through the community's stories, allowing
the story to unfold based upon what the viewer is watching. The
videostories can be accessed by various themes, so when opening the
different frames the user chooses a personal casting in a timeless
virtual story. "Village Voice" allows these Somalis to speak for
themselves, in their own language, about their transition into a new
society.
Ramesh Srinivasan (USA) is a doctoral candidate at Harvard UniversityÕs
Graduate School of Design. He has created several new media
installations and is most interested in studying and finding new
directions for visual media as an expressive form. His particular
interest goes out in using visual media and ideas of narrative to
enable communities.
http://www.impakt.nl/online/narrative/villagevoice/
The Village Voice project is currently inactive.
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