The architecture of post-cinema

Open Montage (OM) is an interactive video project problematizing the position of the moving image in contemporary network culture. Digital communication systems afford the possibility for user experience designers to reflect on a weakening of hierarchical narratives of power and representation; yet, the tendency towards an unthinking remediation of prior (televisual) media types and hierarchies persists. As a consequence of new, yet often aesthetically primitive communication design formations manifesting online, it is argued that tactics of image assembly and montage must be developed to afford users a wider and more expressive range of visual language building communication tools. If the interaction design imperative is not to suspend but encourage disbelief as a condition in the user, how can this be approached as a design problem?