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Image seeds: a communal picture-based narrative

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Bitmapping is an art exhibition that seeks to create a linear story path through a collection of photographs. Bitmapping sends registered participants an image to their mobile phone. The participants must then take a related picture within two hours and send that image to the organisers. This is then forwarded to the next participant to create a chain. While Bitmapping fosters an interesting roadmap of images, it is limited by physical location and the linear stories that it seeks to create. Image Seeds is a global communal hypermedia art experiment that extends Bitmapping. Rather than receiving a single image, participants are invited to navigate a web of images, all of which can act as seeds of inspiration. If participants stumble across an image that inspires, they are invited to add their own image to the hypermedia and create a link from the image that instigated the inspiration. Images can have multiple links to create an evolving story that unfolds into a unique and diverse narrative as participants follow paths through the pictures.

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Christian Ceres Merry. http://tllt.blogspot.com/, 2007.
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CMYK New Media Collective. Bitmapping. http://www.bitmapping.com/, 2007.
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A. Miles. Hypertext structure as the event of connection. In Hypertext '01, pages 61--68.

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    HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
    September 2007
    240 pages
    ISBN:9781595938206
    DOI:10.1145/1286240
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    1. communal art
    2. hypermedia
    3. image seeds
    4. images
    5. narrative

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