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Marc Hibbins

I have worked with various forms of interactive and digital media, including motion graphics, interactive art, shockwave 3D and e-commerce websites.

Contributing to projects for the BBC, the DfES, QIA and RISE Learning, completing an extended work placement at Illumina Digital in the summer of 2006.

I am currently working on my Final Major Production - a rich-media collaborative art project based on the communication of social communities, making use of Adobe Flash Media Server.

EMAIL: contact@marchibbins.com
HOMEPAGE: http://www.marchibbins.com
TITLE: Talkboards
DESCRIPTION: Talkboards are interactive mixed rich-media communication spaces, formed on user-generated cooperation and collaborative content. Talkboards require users to establish and administrate community groups of any size or description, allowing them to build unique composite environments of text, image and video media, each individually customised to their unique interactions.

Subverting the traditional format of communication platforms, users communicate in an intuitive and completely non-linear way, using any part of an initially blank interactive canvas to add, move, edit or delete their own submitted content.

Talkboards are conceptual spaces, dealing with ideas that ‘traditional’ platforms either ignore or seemingly deem irrelevant. For example, there is a constant limitation of space for communities to use. The actions of one user fundamentally affect all the other users of that community. It is the user’s choice whether to consciously alter their efforts with this remaining constant throughout.

The spaces can be used by any group, for any purpose – whether purely as a chat platform, perhaps an online bulletin board, a scrap book or an interactive photo album. The spaces are fully administrated by the users that create them. Operating on an invitation basis, a group can therefore be as large or small as they choose.