A little while back at the beginning of June we hosted the Sydney AR Dev Camp. Organised by Rob Manson and Alex Young, the AR Dev Camp was aimed at exposing local Sydney developers to some of the recent developments in augmented reality. A free event sponsored by Layar and the Powerhouse, it filled the [...]
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Interview with Rob Manson on Layar, streetARt and the AR Dev Camp
August 5th, 2011 No Comments
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China Heart goes live – a mobile storytelling experience
January 27th, 2011 3 Comments
China Heart launches tonight, Thursday January 27, at the Powerhouse and the ‘general public’ (more likely, niche publics) can start playing it with all the special real-world additions between January 30 and February 13. Of course, you can play it outside this period – and you can even play it without being in Sydney. If [...]
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The honeypot effect: more on WaterWorx, the Powerhouse Museum’s iPad interactive
November 5th, 2010 4 Comments
Week one of our iPad interactive – WaterWorx – and the feedback has been great from visitors and teachers alike. Just to prove how much of a honeypot the iPads are, here’s a time-lapse from the day that the exhibition was soft launched. You can see the early morning final touches being added to the [...]
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WaterWorx – our first in-gallery iPad interactive at the Powerhouse Museum
November 1st, 2010 28 Comments
Last week we were installing our first deployment of iPads as gallery interfaces – and they went live on Friday night. Now in the newly refreshed Ecologic exhibition – open right now – you can play a game called WaterWorx deployed to a table of 8 iPads. WaterWorx is intended to convey the difficult of [...]
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Context matters – Googlescape
September 20th, 2010 No Comments
Just a quick one (a relic of a time before I started posting all the quirky new links on Twitter instead of blogging them). Here’s Googlescape, an art project from Sarah Janssen. Googlescape randomly picks a Google Street View location from somewhere in the Netherlands and then crops it with a black border and adds [...]
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Nina Simon – The Participatory Museum – Powerhouse Museum 9/12/09
December 11th, 2009 2 Comments
A few days ago Nina Simon from Museum 2.0 gave a presentation to staff from the Museum and other cultural institutions in Sydney. Her talk, The Participatory Museum, was recorded live at the Powerhouse Museum and can be viewed below. She has uploaded her slides to Slideshare too. A huge thank you to Nina for [...]
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Introducing About NSW – maps, census visualisations, cross search
September 2nd, 2009 8 Comments
Well here’s an alpha release of something that we’ve been working on forever (well, almost 2 years). It is called About NSW and is a bit of a Frankenstein creation of different data sets mashed together by a sophisticated backend. The project began with an open-ended brief to be a cross-sectorial experiment in producing new [...]
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Exploring Sydney streets – a composite video experiment with the Commons
December 5th, 2008 Comments Off
As we’ve been getting a lot of feedback on these here’s another of Jean-Francois Lanzarone’s video montages composed from detail in our glass plate negatives uploaded to the Commons on Flickr. This is the first one he has finished made up of multiple source images. Again, this is a simple digital storytelling with consumer-grade video [...]
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Boxee – really social media
November 28th, 2008 Comments Off
One of the projects I mentioned in one of my workshops at the NZ National Digital Forum was Boxee. I was alerted to Boxee by Shannon O’Neill only a night or two ago via his RSS. Boxee is a good example of the important social side of media use and consumption. It is also a [...]
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DIY museums on Not Quite Art Series 2 (ABC TV)
October 25th, 2008 1 Comment
If you happen to live in Australia (or know someone who does), then you might be interested in the final episode of series 2 of Marcus Westbury’s Not Quite Art. This final episode is on ‘DIY museums’ and how cultural institutions are adapting to the digital environment. It screens on ABC TV on Tuesday night [...]
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