Seth Keen ‐ Mediations: Working Papers on Media and Practice, 2010, Creative Space, San Francisco. p 99‐108 Videodefunct: Tagged, triptych online video content This is purely explorational; a writerly text. A conversation is in progress between the creators and the functionality and capabilities of multiple- streaming, interactive video. Its creators on the frontier, finding future pathways for video experience… Vlogging is evolving at breakneck speeds, video|defunct suggest where this evolution may be taking us. (2008) In this blogged review of the Videodefunct prototype Pedestrian, the author Daniel O’Farrell acknowledges the experimental nature of this research project which aims to create some type of synthesis between the video medium and the Internet. Videodefunct (VD) (2008) is a collaborative research project between Seth Keen, Keith Deverell and David Wolf that explores an alternative form of online video content that differs from the linear, single window video clips that users are familiar with on the meta-platform YouTube. (2005) In the context of this research, YouTube is seen as a publishing platform for moving-image content that is predominately produced offline and remains largely unaltered by the Internet environment. It is a version of Internet TV that continues the tradition of passive viewers sitting back and watching moving-imagery from beginning to end. In contrast, the aim with this research project is to produce video content online, which responds to some of the inherent characteristics of the Internet and web2.0. Following a project-based research model, an iterative process of design and production is used to generate theory that makes a contribution towards online video as an emerging field of inquiry. Figure 1: A Screenshot of the Interactive Video Pedestrian (2007) by Keith Deverell, Seth Keen and David Wolf. Videodefunct The ‘itch’ that motivated the development of the VD system was a frustration with the existing ways that video content was being displayed on the Internet. A key objective