Digital Media

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation was founded in 1995 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study into the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. Influential graffiti artist such as SEEN, TWIST, AMAZE, KETONE, JONONE, and KATSU have had their tags motion captured using the Graffiti Analysis software. All tags created in Graffiti Analysis are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. Graffiti Analysis 3.0 is an open source project that is available online for free in OSX, Windows and Linux. Graffiti writers are invited to capture and share their own tags, and computer programmers are invited to create new applications and visualizations of the resulting data. What Martha Cooper did for archiving graffiti on film, and Chalfant/Silver did for archiving graffiti in video, Graffiti Analysis intends to do for archiving graffiti in code. The project aims to build the worlds largest archive of graffiti motion, and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.

Tim Carmody writes about media and technology at Wired.com, Snarkmarket, HiLobrow, The Idler, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other outlets. Together with the community at Snarkmarket, he helped write and edit a 2009 book titled New Liberal Arts.

Google Books excerpt from James Paul Gee

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The following text was published in December 2008 in Inter/activos II by Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires. The publication was produced in support of a new media workshop and theory seminar by the same name which took place in 2006, organized by curator and writer Rodrigo Alonzo. The text revisits my definition of Remix that has already been introduced in prior writings, such as Turbulence: Remixes and Bonus Beats. This definition can also be found in the section Remix Defined. "The Bond of Repetition and Representation" links the theory of Noise by Jacques Attali to my overall argument that Remix has its roots in DJ Culture starting in the seventies. In the conclusion it revisits and extends my analysis of Yann Le Guenec's project Le Catalogue.

Historypin was created by the social movement We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google.
We Are What We Do is a global social movement that creates ideas, products and tools that make it easy for people to make a difference to big social and environmental issues.
Historypin is one in a series of projects created as part of We Are What We Do's campaign to get generations talking more, sharing more and coming together more often.
There has been a major trend in different generations spending less time together. Which is a shame. Old people know stuff young people don't. And young people know stuff old people don't.

The Medium Is The Message - Video Mashup

Paul D. Miller, A.K.A. DJ Spooky, is a writer, visual artist and platinum-selling recording artist. His mixes blend black radio and cartoon soundtracks with vintage recordings of Thomas Edison and manage a rare combination of street credibility and critical sensibility. In his program he discusses "the mix" as culture and as metaphor.

At the very beginning of Rhythm Science, Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, tells his readers, "Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out."

Rhythm Science is a text organized around synchronicities, mirror imagings, circularities, repetitions, loops, and spirals. Miller combines and recombines autobiography, history, theory, and practice. He entreats readers to try out their own recombinations: "Dig beneath what lies on the surface only to arrive where you started. It's a circular logic, a database logic," Miller intones.

In this WebTake, Rhythm Science is transmuted into a hypnotextual database. Select a keyword, and one, discrete selection of text appears. Read it, dig it, and only then click again. It's a mesmeric machine with which to conjure your own remix of the text.

A Documentary Saga of the Oulipo

Ours is a group blog, founded in May 2003, about computer mediated and computer generated works of many forms: interactive fiction, net.art, electronic poetry, interactive drama, hypertext fiction, computer games of all sorts, shared virtual environments, and more. Until May 2009 run as a centralized blog - with authors Andrew Stern, Mary Flanagan, Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Scott Rettberg - GTxA is now an aggregator for a distributed group of blogs in which we participate. The authors of these blogs work as both theorists and developers, and are interested in authorship, design, and technology, as well as issues of interaction and reception.

Beyond Facebook, beyond consoles and even computer screens, games are becoming the medium for everyday life, says game designer Jesse Schell.

CENTENNIAL 2011

From Stephen Downes