Software programming and digital media product development have become central parts of Feral Arts’ artistic program of work and identity, and integral to the delivery of our community cultural development projects. During the 2008-2010 program, the product development team will continue to work alongside the demonstration digital storytelling activities supporting work across each of the portfolio areas. The product development will continue to leverage off and connect with the development of major online projects such as myspace and google maps, exploring and applying the potential of the new products and services designed for individual consumers to play a role in community-focused digital storytelling and community history initiatives. Product development work falls into three main categories:
Core system development
This is the ongoing development of the digital media products, focusing during 2008-2010 on PlaceStories. This work explores new and creative ways of combining images, text, voice and music in telling stories. The focus is on accessible systems that work well on basic PCs. The team will respond to suggestions, feedback, and ideas coming through the demonstration projects and will customise each of the digital storytelling software systems for the online communities emerging in each portfolio.
Customisation
This is the specific development undertaken to support needs of particular demonstration projects building innovative, scalable and replicable software systems to support large communities of users within one our target sectors.
Creative Development
Activities focused on collaborating with leading arts practitioners and innovators in a range of related disciplines (photography, writing, digital multi-media, animation, oral history, web design) to infuse our program with inspiration from the best and brightest.
Over the three years of the Storytelling in the Public Interest program our aim is to develop PlaceStories into the software of choice for community digital storytelling nationally and internationally.
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