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Non-linear Video Documentary Installation Frameworks, and Poetic Linkage in Silk Road Stories: Life and Displacement on the Automated Highway

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The entailed article details the creation of a non-linear, chance-driven, multi-screen video documentary installation that compiles interviews and daily moments from truckers along silk road routes in China within the context of emerging driverless commercial automated vehicles (AVs). The article will focus primarily on how Chinese non-linear poetry modalities such as xuanjitu and Japanese linked verse such as renga and poetic prose such as Zhitisu can serve as a unique format for non-linear documentary installation content delivery and exhibition. The entailed documentary installation utilizes this overall poetic framework to communicate an individualized participatory viewer experience that illustrates a highly subjective, ambiguous, meditative, and fluid documentation of people, places, machines, and traditions rather than broad informational summarization or reportage.

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  1. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 111 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Richard Cornelisse

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Installation software layout (author’s work in development). Note the audio/video clip array (right side) comprises a nonhierarchical media bank for a randomized edit output (left side).

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Installation exhibition layout (author’s work in development).

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Su Hui, Xuanjitu. Courtesy of the University of Hong Kong Press.

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Central cross-section. Courtesy of the University of Hong Kong Press.

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Cornelisse, R. (2022). Non-linear Video Documentary Installation Frameworks, and Poetic Linkage in Silk Road Stories: Life and Displacement on the Automated Highway. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Learning, Arts, Cultural Heritage, Creative Industries, and Virtual Reality. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13312. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06047-2_13

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