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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 […]
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 […]
March 5, 2012 by jeremy
Scaling New “Hights” – Semi-Casual Ramblings about Jer Sr.
Hight, J. (2006). Views from Above: Locative Media and the Landscape. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 14(7/8), Pp. 1-9. Before, I start mentioning some aspects of Jeremy Sr.’s paper, please check out my official interview with him from last year. I am also hoping to bring him to SIAT to lecture about Locative Media one day or […]
February 28, 2012 by jeremy
Ready for tomorrow’s Virtual and Augmented Reality Seminar…
Hello all, I have just finished my Powerpoint presentation for tomorrow’s seminar. If any of you have smartphones or iPads, you may want to download the Layar app to see the projects described in most of the readings. In the meantime, here is an AR video worth watching… Augmented Reality in the Near Future
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.
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 […]
January 31, 2012 by jeremy
Must-Have Narratives!: The Museum and Proprietary Cultural Heritage…
This blog post is based on: Malpas, J. 2008. “Cultural Heritage in the Age of New Media” in New Heritage.New York: Routledge, pp. 13-26. Srinivasan, R. et al. 2010. “Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum. Science, Technology & Human Values 35(5), pp. 735-768 (pp. 1-36 on the PDF). Using Walter Benjamin’s authorial […]
January 23, 2012 by jeremy
Posthuman Museum Rant
Based on: Brown, Michael F. (2009) Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property. In Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities. J. Cuno, ed. Pp. 145-164. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ok, admittedly, this is quite the over-the-top Utopian rant but I figure Brown’s article gave me the perfect opportunity […]
January 23, 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: […]