Generous Interfaces for Cultural Collections
Mitchell Whitelaw (University of Canberra)
NICTA SML SEMINARDATE: 2012-09-13
TIME: 11:15:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
A decade of work in digitisation has transformed cultural collections held by museums, galleries and archives into rich digital resources. But interfaces to these collections remain dominated by search and a narrow, information-retrieval mode of interaction. This presentation will demonstrate our recent work in defining and developing "generous" interfaces to digital cultural collections. Generous interfaces offer rich overviews, encourage exploration, and reveal context and relationships within a collection. Our work combines approaches from data visualisation and web interface design, to deliver novel, browser-based interfaces to digital collections.
BIO:
Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and artist with interests in new media art and culture, especially generative systems and data-aesthetics. His work has appeared in journals including Leonardo, Digital Creativity, Fibreculture, and Senses and Society. In 2004 his work on a-life art was published in the book Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004). His current work spans generative art and design, digital materiality, and data visualisation. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, where he leads the Master of Digital Design. He blogs at The Teeming Void.
