Amongst many interesting things over the past few days, I’ve just been listening to Gino Yu, Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, talking about experience and brain development. In his talk at the Culturemondo Roundtable here in Taipei he showed an excerpt of one of his former students, Michael [...]
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Michael Highland – As Real As Your Life / games and experience
December 12th, 2008 Comments Off
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Better web metrics for museums – a MW09 workshop, April 2009
December 7th, 2008 Comments Off
The Museums and the Web 2009 programme is now out and registration has started. This year the action takes place in Indianapolis and many of us faraway people are looking forward to checking out the IMA. If you attended MW last year or the recent National Digital Forum in NZ, or maybe your organisation has [...]
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Filippo Minelli ‘Contradictions’ and the Culturemondo 4th Roundtable
December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
I’m about to head off to another Culturemondo Roundtable and the Wooster Collective posts a timely set of street art from Italian artist Filippo Minelli. “Facebook”, spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako – Mali, 2008 Minelli’s Contradictions series, as a short interview on Wooster explains, illuminates the techno-social environment where – “users are pushed to live [...]
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On platform power: museums, authority, digital culture
October 15th, 2008 2 Comments
Nina Simon has done a great job of summing up the potential changes brought by the abundance model of digital to the museum sector. The notion of ‘museums as platforms’ is not new – even if the technologies to make them such in the digital environment are. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and [...]
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Itay Talgam on collaboration as ‘conducting’
October 3rd, 2008 Comments Off
One of the most raved about and surprising sessions of the first day of Picnic08 was from Israeli conductor Itay Talgam. Here is an interview done at Picnic08 with him in which he talks about how the way a conductor works provides a useful framework for considering the future of collaborative work and creativity. Talgam [...]
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Picnic08 – Surprising Africa, data visualisation and a little augmented reality
September 30th, 2008 1 Comment
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the final set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness). Closing off my time at Picnic were visits to a couple of parallel [...]
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Picnic08 – The Internet of Things
September 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is another set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness). Day Three was full of clashes and I was out at Westergasfabriek terribly early [...]
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Picnic08 – Open Musuem (more)
September 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here are some more notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes on the [...]
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Picnic08 – Open Museum part two
September 29th, 2008 1 Comment
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the next set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes [...]
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Picnic08 – my presentation in the Open Museum sessions / Open Museum part one
September 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the second set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes [...]
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