Korsakow (software)
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 Version 6 |
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| developer | Florian Thalhofer , David Reisch |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| Current version | 6.0.07 (November 2017) |
| operating system | from Windows 7 , from Mac OSX 10.10 |
| category | multimedia |
| http://korsakow.com | |
Korsakow is a software for creating rule-based, interactive films. It was invented in 2000 by the media artist Florian Thalhofer and has been continuously developed since then. Korsakow is an easy-to-learn program that enables filmmakers and storytellers to produce generative, audiovisual narration. A work created with Korsakow is called a Korsakow film and can be viewed with a web browser on the Internet or offline. The software is aimed at authors of journalistic, documentary, anthropological, experimental or fictional narratives. Korsakov films are also shown at live events or as interactive video installations.
Versions
Development and previous versions
In the mid-1990s, as a student at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in Joachim Sauter's class , Florian Thalhofer began to deal with computer-based storytelling. In 1996 he published [kleine welt], a non-linear, interactive short story about growing up in the provinces, which was first published in 1999 on CD-ROM by Mediamatic, Amsterdam.
The narrative principle of [small world] significantly influenced the interactive film The Korsakow Syndrome - a film about alcohol that Thalhofer presented as a diploma thesis on December 6, 2000 at the UdK. In order to produce this film, Thalhofer had written a computer program that a little later became available to others as the Korsakow system or Korsakow software. Thalhofer taught from 2001 to 2005 a. a. together with Willem Velthoven and Heinz Emigholz in the “Interactive Narration” class at the UdK, in which the students worked with the early versions of Korsakov.
From 2001 to 2015 the program was available as free software .
Versions 1–3
Korsakow was first published in early 2001. The software was created with Macromedia Director and exported films based on Shockwave . This version of the software is no longer in circulation, but is still used by Florian Thalhofer for installations and performances.
Version 5
Version 5 was first published in July 2009. For version 5, Korsakow was rewritten. The revision of the code was made possible by a collaboration with a research group at Concordia University , Montreal, the Concordia Interactive Narrative Experimentation Research Group (CINER-G, 2007-2011) , later Adventures in Research / Creation (ARC 2011 to 2015) under the chairmanship by Matt Soar. Thalhofer was still the creative mind; the project was led by Matt Soar, who also redesigned the logo. The head of programming was David Reisch with early support from Stuart Thiel.
Korsakow 5 exports to Flash- based films.
Version 6
Version 6 was first published in October 2016. Korsakow now exports HTML5 .
Korsakov film
particularities
The author of a Korsakov film does not organize his material on a timeline, but rather on the basis of context. Unlike a linear narrative, one scene does not follow the other, one scene only ever leads to the next; in Korsakow a narrative unit can be connected with potentially many others. When each element appears always depends on the context. The author determines the content and the context; the viewer surfs through the narrative, so to speak.
The narrative units within Korsakow are called SNU - S mallest N arrative U nit. The process of contextualization is called snuifying ; In addition to creating the content, it is the main task of the Korsakov author, comparable to the editing of (linear) film.
SNUs usually consist of short video sequences of 20 seconds to a few minutes that are dynamically related to each other in the Korsakov film.
The term "SNU" ( s mallest n arrative u nit) was first used by filmmaker Heinz Emigholz during a lecture at the UdK Berlin on February 6, 2002. The text of the lecture was later published in the book "Das Schwarze Schamquadrat" ( ISBN 3-927795-09-7 ).
Compatibility (version 6)
The following file formats are accepted by Korsakow 6:
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [small world] / [small world]. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
- ^ ARC: Adventures in Research / Creation. Retrieved January 20, 2018 (American English).