February 2012 archives
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February 28, 2012 by diana
Honda’s Augmented “Reality” Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UbDYdjhnfEg#! Fascinated by this . . .Archive
February 27, 2012 by kate
AR: ‘Never Stop Playing’?
I saw this commercial on TV over the weekend and thought that it captured an aspect of Augmented Reality applications that I find troubling. The ad’s protagonist exists in an empty city, only noticing other ‘players’ of the game he is involved in. “Never Stop Playing”, is the tag line–but seeing the ad, and watching […]Archive
February 20, 2012 by kate
Virtual Museums
Many thanks to Claude for her great synthesis of this week’s readings on virtual museums, and for many excellent questions for discussions. I am looking forward to Tuesday’s class. In the meantime, I wanted to link to a few examples of virtual museums that are worth spending some time looking at and thinking about in […]Archive
February 19, 2012 by kristin
Neon Signs Made with Bacteria
Tyler – I thought of you while searching for explorations with neon signs. This article describes research from UC San Diego that is exploring the use of fluorescent bacteria as bio-pixels for screens. http://futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/19/9565060-neon-signs-made-with-bacteriaArchive
February 19, 2012 by jeremy
Protected: Jer’s Week 8 Seminar: Virtual and Augmented Reality (in the Museum)…
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Archive
February 19, 2012 by claude
Week #7 seminar / When museums go digital: redefining the space of the exhibit
virtual-exhibits-virtual-museums In this week’s seminar, I will be starting my presentation by giving a brief overview of some of the different forms and functions that virtual exhibits can take, illustrating these with examples. I will also present the highlights of a paper I wrote last semester on the digital affordances used to curate a virtual […]Archive
February 11, 2012 by jeremy
Close Encounters of a Virtual Kind
Click here to watch the video This post deals with Reading Week’s assigned readings which include: Andrea Bandelli. Virtual Spaces and Museums. Originally in Journal of Museum Education, Vol. 24, 1999. p. 20. Muller, Klaus. Museums and Virtuality. Ch. 29. Originally in Curator. Vol. 45, no. 1, 2002, pp. 21-33. Neil Silberman. Chasing the […]Archive
February 7, 2012 by diana
Our Children in a Post-Nuclear World
This is really interesting in terms of discourses about “our children” in a post-Nuclear world: watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k&feature=fvwrel The “Daisy” TV ad that Johnson ran against Goldwater in the 1964 US presidential campaign, cited as the first televised political attack ad.Archive
February 5, 2012 by kate