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)
From Google blog:
Boutiques uses computer vision and machine learning technology to visually analyze your taste and match it to items you would like.”
“First we partnered with taste-makers of all types. We asked them not just to curate 10-50 great items they loved, but also to teach our site their style and taste. They did this by telling us what colors, patterns, brands and silhouettes they loved and they hated. They took a visual quiz that taught the site to understand their style genre: Classic, Boho, Edgy, etc. Our machine learning algorithms use this information to enable you to shop all of the inventory in the style of that taste-maker, on top of the 50 items they’ve hand-curated.”
“We analyze the photograph of an item for its color, shape and pattern and try to help you find visually similar items.”
August 8, 2008:
China invents new ARCHBODY MEDIA:
ancient ritual and spectacle + 20th century mass ornament + early 21st century architecture + digital media
N, a free game from Metanet.(From Business Week, Gaming Trends: 2008.)
Sobees, a widget application from Switzerland.Logo:
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Captured at Museum of Contemporary Art’s bookstore (NYC), January 1, 2008.
I discovered that manovich.net was hacked.I was thinking of leaving it as is, because this page inserted by some script reminded meof a certain well-known work of early net art from about 10 years ago…however, as my site contains links to my class syllabi used by students,I had to go and restore it to its “normal” and “socially useful” appearance.This is how my home page looked for about 2 days after it was hacked (cropped screengrab):
944 Magazine, Los Angeles issue, March 2008:
