I found an amazingly illustrative video of Zoetrope, a tool being developed by Adobe through the University of Washington.
The idea behind Zoetrope is to provide a graphical tool that can track the changes of multiple websites and their elements through time. This allows for the quick cross-referencing of information across a large spectrum of data sources and quickly provide graphical analysis of the information. The user interface seems to be a patch programing UI associated with a 'sand box' type web viewer that allows multiple web pages to be rendered into a single working space.
I wonder if their Zoetrope can index video streams as well, so as to allow the association of security cameras or other video sources to the other data sets they are integrating. Can I attach a security camera recording of a years worth of action in a performance space and in turn analyze it through the lens of the daily headlines and weather patterns in the area?
While I am not immediately clear on how this type of tool might play out within a performance context, I can see the use of this type of emerging research tool changing the content creation and resource development for a performance as much as it would aid in journalism, academic research and other information based processes.
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