(At times, the format of "Work of Art" recalled another environment that's typically hostile to art and artists: the art fair, where works are evaluated "within the first split second," as Mr. de Pury described his instinctive judgments).
So I always knew this was a format of work I wanted to take on.
"Our Fathers" adopts the ambitious format of works of living history like "And the Band Played On" and "Common Ground".
Over the next 20 years Kronos became the world's best known, most innovative contemporary-music quartet, moving rapidly from a new-music-inflected but otherwise general repertory to a purely contemporary one, then to its current format of works composed exclusively for it.
By doing so "we give a station a system where all the digital video can be manipulated in a manageable way, where the station can choose what bit-rates and formats to work with instead of being at the mercy of the network or content provider," Koz says.
Besides the traditional landscape furnishings -- mountains, plains, trees and bodies of water -- the capacious, largely horizontal formats of their work usually included stagey environmental phenomena and a kind of spiritual light.
"In some ways, it's more complicated than Google Docs, because it's not just text — there are all these kinds of multimedia social media formats to work with," Herman said.
This applies to "literary, dramatical, musical and artistic works, as well as with the typographical formats of published works"; it does not apply to infringement of broadcasts, sound recordings or film.
Certain formats of digital works that users might have in a separate collection can also be uploaded to the Depict Frame.
It's a different format: Instead of working with one director as we did on "The Cosby Show" for so long -- Jay Sandrich -- now I'm working with multiple directors and each of them has their own approach and their own style so that's the difference.
Ms. Evans says it is not the subject matter but just the format of her work that has changed since she left acting.
