Adam Greenfield at Urbanscale just posted some interesting research his team has been doing in NYC on the citizen familiarity of QR codes. This is especially timely as QR codes are getting a lot of interest (finally) from the cultural sector. The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has been doing QR codes for a few years [...]
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Early MoveMe wi-fi heat maps from Love Lace exhibition
October 31st, 2011 1 Comment
Several months ago I announced that the Powerhouse Museum was a partner in the MoveMe pilot project funded under NSW Government’s Collaborative Solutions Program. We’ve been working with Ramp, MOB Labs, ShopperTrak and Smarttrack RFID to deploy the pilot in our recent Love Lace exhibition. This exhibition is ideal for trialling location aware content delivery [...]
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Experiencing The O at MONA – a review
October 27th, 2011 10 Comments
A lot has been written about the Museum of Old and New Art and I’m not going to rehash any of that. Instead I’m going to look at their mobile guide – The O – which is provided to every visitor and included in the admission price. Here some of the fleet of 1300 Os [...]
More on mobile tech impacts in museums (extended Mashable remix)
September 15th, 2011 5 Comments
There’s a nice introductory piece today that features some of the recent Powerhouse Museum work in Mashable. It is a broad overview piece of how the Smithsonian, the NY Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Powerhouse have been utilising mobile technologies in galleries and exhibitions. Reading some of the comments and picking up on some [...]
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Early App and QR code scanning data from Love Lace exhibition
August 23rd, 2011 11 Comments
I promised updates on the data coming from the QR code implementation in the Love Lace exhibition so here are the results of the last 4 weeks since opening. Already we’ve released updates to both the iOS and Android versions of the Love Lace App. Perhaps surprisingly it has been the Android App that has [...]
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Interview with Rob Manson on Layar, streetARt and the AR Dev Camp
August 5th, 2011 No Comments
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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A new Powerhouse Walking Tours App and a Q&A with Glen Barnes
July 20th, 2011 No Comments
About a month ago our second walking tour App went live in the AppStore and was promptly featured by Apple leading to a rapid spike in downloads. The Powerhouse Museum Walking Tours App is a free download, unlike our Sydney Observatory App, and it comes pre-packaged with two tours of the suburbs surrounding the Museum [...]
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Making Love Lace – a cross device exhibition catalogue & the return of the QR
July 6th, 2011 6 Comments
Estee Wah has been busy bringing Love Lace, our upcoming contemporary art exhibition, online. She’s been wrangling content and ensuring that the website is able to act as a fully fledged (and expanding) catalogue for the show as well as revealing much of the individual artists’ processes in a behind the scenes section. This exhibition [...]
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Updating Go Play – the cross-agency school holiday calendar
July 5th, 2011 4 Comments
Last September we quietly launched the alpha version of Go Play, a site that Powerhouse was commissioned to produce for the then Communities NSW (now Office of Communities). Go Play was built to address the problem of the general invisibility of the wealth of great school holiday events, often free or low cost, put on [...]
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