Smart montage

Smart Montage is a new-media visual language development, building off and integrating a number of existing concepts and technologies such as video mashups, intellectual montage and spatial montage and can be output to both traditional devices, web and mobile devices utilizing the latest Web 3.0 technologies.
A core element to the development and implementation of Smart Montage is the Video mashup. A Video mashup uses multiple source materials to create new and powerful social or intellectual statements using digital video. Smart Montage can also use techniques such as Spatial Montage where multiple images share the same space and time to both tell a story and make a dialectical statement. Spatial Montage was a term coined by new media theorist Lev Manovich and is seen in examples such as the television series '24' or in a hybrid media forms such as a CNN broadcast which fuses multiple streams of video, text, photography and graphics working with sound which may or may not be sampled.
By using Spatial Montage, and sampling possible through Video Mashups, media makers can create a new Smart Montage that creates visual intellectual statements using symbols and ironic commentary while still keeping the audience engaged within a narrative. Smart Montage uses the new technologies to successfully resurrect previous montage theories, such as .
Smart Montage was a phrase coined by Brigid Maher in the paper, "SMART MONTAGE: The New Mobile Dialectic" given at the University Film and Video Association Conference at the University of New Orleans in August 2009. Brigid Maher is a media-maker and new media theorist and heads the New Media Concentration in the Film and Media Arts Division in the School of Communication at American University.

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