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 »
Billy Colbert – Mug Shots from Brandon Bloch on Vimeo.
Billy Colbert works from his studio in an abandoned warehouse at the corner of 14th and T streets in Washington, DC. The location couldn’t be any hotter in terms of its development potential… So Billy can only occupy this space temporarily while the owners of the building search for development opportunities for their property.
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MIT MediaLab has recently released a video of a project called “Siftables.”
What could this do for the archiving world?
On Thursday and Friday this week Jason Tester from The Institute for the Future (IFTF) dropped by the Media Design Program. He shared IFTF’s process and some experiments and provocations they’ve produced. Jason also specified the product they produce as a consultancy has shifted over the decades from a thick printed 300-page report that gets handed off to a client, to a landscape view of not what the future will be but what the future will be “like”. And in addition to that, IFTF has begun to make artifacts to go along with the maps, although Jason admits he is not sure which is more important, if they’re equal, if they must be used together or can one still remain on its own.
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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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The Newton Virus, designed by Troika, is the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world.
The Newton Virus was on display as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit at MoMa.
After 1994′s Lollapalooza, Interval Research came back with hundreds of hours of ethnographic video research from concert-goers’ experiences with interactive kiosks at the event. Logging this huge volume of footage was frustrating and time consuming. They looked for a new interface that could aide them. They ended up developing “Logjam“—a tangible multi-person interface for video logging.
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 »
This is a short documentary piece shot by The Naturalist to promote KCRW’s Save The Music project.
A collection or archive can take many shapes. I came across this video on Vimeo where two guys recorded them racing each other in a car driving themed video game. I think it’s interesting the possibilities that are opened up when one attempts to visualize archival sets of information.
