Producing and broadcasting non-linear art-based content through open source interactive internet-tv

Abstract

The development of an interactive Internet-based TV system designed to cover the broadcasting needs for new media artwork introduces various complexities across the organisation, production and interaction forefronts, as live interactive installation art and multi-sourced multimedia content poses particular presentation requirements. Our work presents and discusses real-life strategies and solutions employed during the development of iMediaTV, an open-source academic broadcasting system that permits various presentation modes to be employed, extending the presentation needs for artistic and non-uniform content. We demonstrate how an open-source Internet-based production/broadcasting system may be customised to include advanced content enhancing features, enabling interactive new media arts presentation over the Web.