SEARCH FOR: Tasting Rooms NEAR: Pasadena
What would an online yellow pages listing look like for Archive Tasting Rooms?
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Archivation
In a world where film archivists, historians, museums and information scientists research the practice of ARCHIVING, what can a media designer bring to the table?Archive Tasting on a mobile device
Archive Tasting with a mobile device from Parker Kuncl on Vimeo.
An Archive Tasting Room is a space in which users—both scholarly or casual—can sample a curated selection of past researchers’ experiences and inquiries at
archives around the world.
Archive Tasting Room Wall
Archive Wall from Parker Kuncl on Vimeo.
A quick experiment using an object to steer through a researcher’s archived inquiry.
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Interactive Archive Tasting (alpha version)
iPhone Archival Access v0.1 from Parker Kuncl on Vimeo.
This is an experiment of an interactive mode of access to archives I’m in the process of designing. By using a multitouch mobile device, a user could “taste” or “sample” a few different researchers’ captured inquiries from their time spent researching at an archive.
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An Archive Tasting Room (Proposal Draft)
ABSTRACT: The Archive Tasting Room is a space situated outside of an archive’s research reading room in which users—both scholarly and casual—can sample or taste a curated selection of past researchers’ experiences and inquiries at archives around the world.
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Interfacing with a digitized archived object through a mobile device
Archival Flip & Rotate from Parker Kuncl on Vimeo.
This is just a quick experiment today to test a flipping interaction between a multi-touch handheld device and a larger multi-touch screen—such as an Oracle Multi-touch able. Right now I am only demoing it on Flash on my laptop.
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Key insights from my research trips
The past two weeks I spent traveling to three different archives as both a casual and scholarly researcher. Below is a list of key insights I’ve uncovered while interacting with people, spaces/environments, and institutions that at these visited archives. I came up with a list of about 40 at first, but narrowed it down to my favorites which all have a relative thread.
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Can I recommend a Pinot with that photo?
Since my trips to the various archives this past year, I’ve uncovered an intriguing insight—are archivists akin to a Sommelier, DJ, or Antiques Roadshow guest?
Both wine tasting and archival access are steeped in history, culture, provenance, quality, age, social interaction, and similar qualities. Read the rest of this entry »
In a researcher’s shoes (part 2)
Last week I spent a few days at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. The GEH is an internationally renown museum of photography and film. They also house huge preservation and archival collection efforts all under the same roof. Read the rest of this entry »
In a researcher’s shoes (part 1)
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has a Pacific Northwest & Alaska Regional location just outside of downtown Seattle, WA.
To see a gallery of my trip and research experience at NARA click here.
