EAI: A Video and Interactive Media Collection

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
From the site:
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a leading resource for artists’ video and interactive media. EAI’s core program is the international distribution of a major collection of new and historical media works by artists. Founded in 1971 as a nonprofit media arts center, EAI also offers a video preservation program and a screening room/study center. The Online Catalogue is a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and 3,000 works in the EAI collection. The searchable database includes artists’ biographies, tape descriptions, QuickTime excerpts, resource materials, and online ordering.

Digital Radio Broadcasts begin

Wired News: Radio Ready to Go Digital

Not much about this in the media or anywhere else for that matter. Read about iBiquity some time ago, seems interesting but I don’t quite understand why the FCC choose a product from a single vendor instead of an open standard for this. Can someone fill me in?

From the article:
Digital radio has been used for several years in Canada, Israel and parts of Europe. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission voted in October 2002 to adopt iBiquity’s technology as the standard for digital broadcasts, and allowed radio stations to begin broadcasting digital signals in addition to traditional analog signals.
Stations eventually will be able to broadcast two separate FM programs on one channel simultaneously, thereby offering customers more programming options. Listeners also will be able to save their favorite tunes and programs and replay them when they want.

The future of automated video indexing

Informedia-II Digital Video Library

Some nice research being done at CMU.

From the site:
The overarching goal of the Informedia initiatives is to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization in both contemporaneous and archival content collections.

The base technology developed under Informedia-I combines speech, image and natural language understanding to automatically transcribe, segment and index linear video for intelligent search and image retrieval. Informedia-II seeks to improve the dynamic extraction, summarization, visualization, and presentation of distributed video, automatically producing ‚Äúcollages‚Ä? and ‚Äúauto-documentaries‚Ä? that summarize documents from text, images, audio and video into one single abstraction.

What is that counter in Union Square anyway?

Metronome.relatedrentals.com: Press Release

New York (October 21, 1999) – On October 26, 1999, at precisely twelve-noon, Metronome, the 98 foot by 200 foot art wall, commissioned by The Related Companies, L.P. for the faÁade of One Union Square South, will come to life with a burst of steam, a melodious tone and the illumination of the digital time piece, officially inaugurating this remarkable gift to the City of New York.