With only a few weeks to go until my final presentation and exhibition (not to mention graduation!) this will be my last post this sememster until my new website rightathand.com is completed. Be sure to check out my final project there. Thanks to everyone who’s helped me thus far.
So I’m on Archive.org’s website searching for archival materials on “airships” as subject matter for my thesis exhibition and final project when it hits me. This really IS incredibly boring—to comb through endless search results looking for the good stuff. Who wants to stare at a spreadsheet or list of search results all day long? Days actually.
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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.
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 »
Tonight I presented my poster at the SAA annual meeting. I am a designer, and not an archivist, so feeling like quite an outsider I dived in and got to speak with a variety or archiving industry professionals including archivists, instructors, students, curators, and vendors.
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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 »
Embodied Archival Access from Parker Kuncl on Vimeo.
This experiment is the first iteration of a physical and visual interface for access archived sets of information—in this case using radio station DJ’s playlists. Read the rest of this entry »
My Music Player project allowed someone to associate a set of music with their favorite object.
The center object would act as the current source, while the two supporting outside objects could be moved to advance or rewind tracks.
Objects could be any size, shape, and texture, and be rearranged at will.
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3-Object Interface for Archived Playlists from Parker Kuncl on Vimeo.
This was a quick iteration to show how one can use objects in space to manipulate or move through different sets and nodes of information—in this case music playlists. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello Rachel. My name is Parker Kuncl and I am currently an MFA candidate in the Graduate Media Design program Read the rest of this entry »
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