Interview with Nancy Proctor about Going Mobile for Museums

Interview with Nancy Proctor, Head of New Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, during the Going Mobile conference sponsored by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative in San Diego, February 17 2010. Run time: 8:50.

Ideum mt-50 multitouch table

The Ideum MT-50 retails for about $21,000 USD and is designed for use in museums, tradeshows and other exhibitions why not my living room? and features a massive 50-inch multitouch glass surface. It can detect up to 40 simultaneous points of input, so multiple users can interact with it at the same time. The MT-50 [...]

Magic in the Houston Museum of Natural Science

With a touch of hocus-pocus and a dash of abracadabra, the Houston Museum of Natural Science pulls a spectacular new exhibition out of its hat—Magic!, opening Friday, February 26, 2010. The extraordinary show examines how science and magic are intertwined, tapping into our universal desire to know “How does that work?” Magic is the perfect [...]

We need your help to find the best museum work on the web

The Best of the Web Awards are given every year at the Museums and the Web conference. Since 1997, a committee of peers has reviewed sites nominated and called our attention to outstanding models. We need your help to find the best museum work on the web. Nominate a site for the Best of the [...]

GestureWorks, Supported Multitouch Hardware

GestureWorks is supported on a wide variety of commercially available hardware, including the HP TouchSmart series and Dell Studio One.GestureWorks has optimized drivers to directly interface with the touch recognition system in any multitouch-enabled Windows 7 system. GestureWorks can also be used to author applications on Ideum’s multitouch table, or on other multitouch systems that [...]

TEI 2010 / Relief: a responsive 3D surface

“Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models like geographical terrain in an intuitive manner. The tabletop surface is actuated by an array of 120 motorized pins, which are controlled with a platform built upon [...]

International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

The winning entries in an international visualization contest prove that you can see good science at work in a variety of venues, ranging from cartoon strips to art galleries. For the past seven years, the journal Science and the National Science Foundation have co-sponsored contests to recognize the best visual depictions of scientific phenomena – [...]

Debate series on the western view of non-western art

Debate series on the western view of non-western art. What is the role of museums in a multicultural and globalizing community? Artists, curators and scientists on the boundaries of art. Read more: Home – Framer Framed.

Why Flickr? Using photos to tell your story

While discussing various uses of social media by arts organizations, a coworker mused, “But why Flickr?”“Why Flickr?” indeed. Or perhaps, more accurately, HOW Flickr? After prowling around in search of arts organizations that are using Flickr in interesting and relevant ways, it seems pretty clear that the question should be addressed.Since the internet can transmit [...]

Projection of video onto architectural structures

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot projects involving the projection of video onto architectural structures. The most interesting of these are films that actually take the contours of the building into account, creating perceptual tricks of scale and encouraging viewers to think of the buildings as malleable structures. VIDEO Hamburg Kunsthalle. [...]