Art Film Talk

Archive for December, 2007

Art Film Talk #24 Shay David, Kaltura

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Shay David is a scholar and entrepreneur who has specialized in collaborative and open-source communication systems. He is currently Chief Technology Officer of Kaltura, a collaborative media start-up self-described as YouTube meets Wikipedia. Shay earned his PhD at Cornell with a dissertation on open systems and democratic culture. He and his co-founders Ron Yekutiel and Michal Tsur are influenced by Social Constructivism, Actor-network theory, and the ideas Yochai Benkler describes in his book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. I interviewed Shay on December 11th in New York at the Web Video Summit where he spoke on a panel, "What's Coming Next: From High Definition to Cameraphones, Viewer Interaction and Built in Social Exchange." Do the interactions users are capable of with Kaltura point to the future of filmmaking, especially documentary filmmaking? The Art Film Talk theme music was composed by Colin Owens.