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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Interactive Media'
Visualising Japan – Soma’s Tokyo Tuesday
October 23rd, 2008 1 Comment
I’ve been loving the data visualisations of the Japanese census done by Soma. The data source is the Statistics Bureau of Japan, and they’ve collected some very detailed behavioural data which has been made very navigable by Soma. What’s Japan up to? Let’s find out with some graphs. Let’s get specific, too. How many women [...]
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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 – 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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Picnic08 – the first report from the conference with fake sheep and wifi donkeys
September 27th, 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’, or as my presentation was called “Sorry we’re open: the open, collaborative museum“. Set in the reclaimed grey zone of Westergasfabriek, Picnic08 was quite a remarkable thing to behold. On [...]
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Teens, Games and Civics 2008 Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project / some implications for interactives in museums
September 17th, 2008 1 Comment
Another fascinating report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Teens, Games and Civics came out recently. Focussing on teen use of games (defined in very broad terms) the report is interesting reading. It is revealing in that it shows that game playing is most definitely mainstream (95%+ participation) and that gaming is a [...]
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Dan Hill makes a modernism in Australia map for Modern Times (or interesting things clever people do when they have some spare time)
September 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Dan Hill from Arup and the author of the wonderful City of Sound blog wrote a review of the Powerhouse’s Modern Times exhibition. In his criticism of the exhibition he wondered where the extra-exhibition content was – especially given the perfect fit between the content of the exhibition and specific places and sites. He describes [...]
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Vote on our next advertisement for the upcoming Star Wars exhibition!
August 28th, 2008 1 Comment
OK so here’s the deal – the Umbilical Brothers have helped us create six different short TV advertisements for the upcoming Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition. One of these is already screening in cinemas (see below). But now we need your help in voting for the next advertisement. We can only make one [...]
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More powerful browsers – Mozilla Labs Ubiquity
August 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Mozilla Labs has released Aza Raskin’s Ubiquity in an early alpha form. This is a glimpse into a future world of browser technology which brings notions of the semantic web directly into the browser and connects the dots between websites – not from a provider perspective, but from a user perspective. Ubiquity for Firefox from [...]
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