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March 28, 2012 by jeremy
Second Life Sneak Preview – My Neon-Sign Avatar Museum Performance at Gallery Xue…
For my museum performance in Second Life, my avatar has been composed entirely out of neon signs. These pics illustrate the signs with animations advertising the Museum of Vancouver’s “UGLY VANCOUVER NEON VANCOUVER” show and the IAT 888 class… The neon words on the custom signs get scrambled before spelling out the full words…UPDATE: […]Archive
March 27, 2012 by kate
Social Media and the ‘filter bubble’
This is the TED talk that Bardia referenced in his presentation today: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.htmlArchive
March 27, 2012 by jeremy
AVATARA – An “ethnographic” documentary film about an early virtual world…
Hi Class, I noticed after reviewing my interview with Dennis Moser that I did not mention to him that I had co-produced one of the first documentaries about an avatar community. The virtual world we explored was Steve DiPaola’s “Digitalspace Traveler”. Our documentary was from 2003 and was called AVATARA… Here are some links (including […]Archive
March 27, 2012 by kate
YouTube as ‘Social Media’
Hi everyone, thanks for your great comments. Jeremy raises an important question about the definition of social media, and the extent to which platforms like YouTube constitute social media. You may have seen this video before, and if not I think it is a fun way to think about the social effects and relationships that […]Archive
March 26, 2012 by bardia
Social Media Space and Museum Practices
In this article, I would like to explore the social media space in the context of Museums, and investigate different critical challenges in bringing museums experiences to social media space exposed through the body of related literature. Recently, there has been a popular trend to introduce museum institutions and their digital contents in social media […]Archive
March 24, 2012 by jeremy
A SECOND SIGN OF THE TIMES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS MOSER…
A SECOND SIGN OF THE TIMES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS MOSER VIA EMAIL – MARCH 14, 2012 SUMMARY: As part of a homework assignment for his “New Media and the Museum” class taught by Prof. Kate Hennessy; Jeremy Owen Turner interviews the virtual world librarian and music composer, Dennis Moser about heritage and conservation issues […]Archive
March 18, 2012 by kristin
Tangibles in the Museum: Focused on Experience, Engagement and Inquiry
Hello! Because I identify with physical experience so much, I find the exploration of tangible devices as interfaces a nice acknowledgement of [and ploy to] design for the human-centered physical experience. So I’m excited about Tangibles! This topic is also a nice way to segue discussions around awareness and acknowledgement of heritage to user’s own […]Archive
March 18, 2012 by claude
Singing Trees in the Silence of the Lands
This seems to me an improvement on the Silence of the Lands program…this is for you Tyler… Singing trees, 2 min. (Bernie Krause on FORA TV)Archive
March 13, 2012 by kate