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Lev Manovich. Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections.
This new text presents the theory and the techniques of media visualization used in our lab, with the analysis of the examples.
Exploring visualization of 4525 Time maagzine covers on a super high resolution display.
Experimental interfaces to museum collections (from my 2011 digital humanities++ class syllabus):
image grid: SFMOMA Artscope
heat map: Natural Science Museum of Barcelona collection heat map
2D timeline: Powerhouse museum australian dress register
3D navigation: Google art project
interactive surface: Microsoft Surface Museum Collection Portal
remix: lACMA collection remix (no longer online)
Business Week:
What Is a Book? The Definition Continues to Blur
Micro-publishing ventures Byliner and The Atavist join the growing e-book business, offering long-form journalism
I have released my new book SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND under Creative Commons Licence.Dowload the PDF from here.
August 8, 2008:
China invents new ARCHBODY MEDIA:
ancient ritual and spectacle + 20th century mass ornament + early 21st century architecture + digital media
Jeff Hun
8 years after Minority Report, gesture and touch are on their way to become mainstream interfaces. (This is also another example of how the experimental interface research which in the 1990s was seen only in digital art exhibitions or computer science conferences is now rather quickly making its way into consumer electronics products all around us. )
Business Week:
Touch Computing Hits Its Stride | June 28, 2008.
The article talks about the following products and research projects:
Microsoft Surface.
Microsoft TouchWall.
Microsoft Windows 7 (due in 2010) running on a touchscreen laptop and responding to gestures.
Apple iPhone and MacBook Air.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories: DiamondTouch.
Acnhors on CNN using “Magic Wall” (designed by Jef Hun / Perceptive Pixel).
Hewlett-Packard’s TouchSmart PC
Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) Misto, a prototype touchscreen system built into a coffee table.
MIT Media Lab projects: PICO, I/O Brush, Tangible Bits Lab.
N, a free game from Metanet.(From Business Week, Gaming Trends: 2008.)
