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Curious Displays

Curious Displays by Julia Yu Tsao
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Parisian Love

New Google ad: Parisian Love.
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Augmentia

Anselm lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality (AR). In doing so he relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems associated with ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. Below are some clippings of bits that seem particularly insightful: It puts own embodiment at risk. And whomsoever can mitigate that risk while [...]
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Telling stories with interfaces

“But where does it go from here? Is this really just a micro-genre best suited to ads for internet companies? Or does the fact that we spend so much time on this stage our selves mean that it really can be the venue for more (and more kinds of) storytelling? via Telling stories with interfaces « [...]
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Embodied interaction in music

!/images/embodied_music_cover.jpg(read more)!:http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music Over Easter I sketched out some ideas for navigating music on a portable player. I was frustrated with the iPod clickwheel, thinking about reducing the reliance on visual interfaces and how navigating music has a lot to do with language. I wanted to explore richer interfaces that combine movement, language and vision.
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Art + communication 2004

The final event in the Trans-cultural mapping series of workshops was organised by RIXC in Riga, Latvia.
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ISEA 2004 conference

Going to ISEA on a boat between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn and Tallinn today. I am updating photographs here, and have been posting some event notes over at polarfront.
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Mobile outskirts workshop

Currently in Lofoten, Norway for the Mobile outskirts workshop.
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Outside In

Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.
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Notcon 04

Two things I saw at Notcon 04 and got excited about.
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Travelogue

Street chairs in TokyoI have been treating digital photography as a narrative medium taking sequences of photographs to suggest movement, place, stories, journeys and discovery. In the near future I hope to to link images back to places using a GPS receiver, to produce some semi-automated travelogues. There is a lot of research to be done around contextualised imagery, and about mapping in relation to photography.
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Design for television

Typographer.org / David Earls has covered the basics of design for television in a clear and accessible way. I have been meaning to write up some guidelines specific to (interactive) television, here is a start.
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Media theory books

My media theory books.
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Narrative books

My books on narrative, and the intersections between story, simulation and interaction.
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