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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?Curiosity Cabinet 2.0
Curiosity Cabinet (connecting real objects and RFID) from robertanderson on Vimeo.
Robert embodied his entire portfolio of work during his time in design school into a single piece of furniture that both houses the original artifacts, and acts as a digital interface/storage device for his computer files for each piece Read the rest of this entry »
Which came first: the physical or the virtual.
Sense Surface is a recent concept under development that allows a user to benefit from the affordances of the original artifact (a knob) and the virtual interface (desktop or screen).
SAA Conference: Poster presenters announced!
My submitted poster for the SAA (Society of American Archivists) annual meeting this year has been posted on their site along with a variety of other graduate students from around the country. Mine appears second from the bottom. I’m in the process of designing the poster now and hope to be able to show a video or two while presenting my poster. Graduate Student Poster Presentations
Facebook’s Lexicon
Today I ran across a cool new feature on the social networking megastar—Facebook. A new feature called “Lexicon” allows users to search through all words on blogs, walls, and tags on the site and graphical visualizations chart usage of this lexicon.
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How to Archive a Child’s First Three Years
And people think I want to document everything and archive it all. Well I don’t, but this family sure does. They are attempting to archive their son’s first three years of life by archiving a petabyte video and audio live streams from their home in order to capture the Human Speechome Project—looking for how children learn language.
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Original Artifact’s DNA extraction
What if a piece of technology was designed but never built? Could the archived design plans lead to the construction of two “copies”? How well would it turn out?
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Hand-Cutting Archival Sets
Tom Gallant creates beautiful fragile hand-cut floral prints from old archived porn magazines.
The New Journalists
As part of my research for my thesis, I applied to and was lucky enough this past term to participate in a Unicef/mDialog sponsored TDS (trans-disciplinary) studio where the end goal was to develop new tools to support the growing global community of youth media groups and journalists. Read the rest of this entry »
“Magic Satchels” and “Bags of Holding”
In the video game world these two items are special collections of items of infinite inventory for a character to carry around with them. From Wikipedia, their definitions are:
BAG OF HOLDING
While a bag of holding appears to be a common cloth sack Read the rest of this entry »
