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"We work with people who others cannot reach. Our own people. Until we made the Linker software there was a huge technical barrier. We would get people excited and then they would get hit with all the technical details. Linker makes all that simple and lets people get on with exploring ideas". Mervin Jarman
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Linker is a non-commercial piece of software, available free as a download from the internet. It is experimental and the work of people who like to make technologies for their own purposes and then share them. It is in constant development and refinement, and is not guaranteed glitch-free. |
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What it doesLinker takes nine images and creates a layout or "map" with them. From this initial layout, the software enables you to create links to sounds, images, text, video clips and also to other parts of the map and different scale views of the map. Linker requires the user to input their own images, sounds, video clips and text. Once this is done, Linker can be used for connecting and editing those elements. Why we built itThe Linker software comes out of what Mongrel does in workshops: our dialogues with other mongrels. We work with people who are not experts but have something to say.
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way the workshops run is based around the structure of the Linker. There
will always be one or more computers running the program and ways of getting
material into it.
A video camera and some cheap digital cameras produce the still or moving images. Sound comes in from off of the video or straight into the computer's mic. A simple sound editor program can be used to edit and add effects. The text is banged out directly on the machine. Other stuff can come off the net, CDs, wherever. It's quick. |
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