It looks like these interactive table posts could become a weekly blog feature. Here are two more interactive table projects. Opensource interface to create music with tangible objects. To operate the interface users manipulate blocks of wood, the program then generates sounds and visuals based on those positions. The interface utilizes a custom Processing library which receives Open Sound Control…

I thought I exhausted my accumulated links with last weeks post, but I found a few more interactive tables to blog about. Quoted from their website “The reacTable*, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface…” It…

Sabine Himmelsbach gave a lecture last week at UCLA on exhibition strategies for media based artwork. The lecture is online in Real Player format, or check their amazing archive for other material. Himmelsbach was head of the exhibition department at ZKM | Center for Art and Media from 1999 until last year.

Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM’s Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade. It’s just starting out (under 10 posts) but the quality of writing so far is impressive. I’m sure this will provide good reading in the future.

It’s hard to count the number of times I’ve been asked to explain the buzzword of the year “web 2.0“. I finally found an explanaition of the phenomena that makes more sense (to me). Ajit Jaokar took Tim O’Reilly’s principles of Web 2.0 and changed the order a little. I’ve found O’Reilly’s explanation complete but unweildy when trying to boil down this “web 2.0″ thing down to a simple couple sentences…

This is a short list of links to interactive table projects that I’ve accumulated over the past few months. Intellegent Vibrations has developed what they call an Internet Table. According to their site the surface of the table as a “tap screen” which they go on to describe being for ordering food, drinks or surfing the internet all while being impervious to liquid. Apparently (and I’m referenceing…

Danah Boyd’s take on why MySpace worked. The short answer is Subcultural Capital. The longer answer is in an essay on Boyd’s site that I’m excerpting below. Initially the essay sets up a history of Friendster and MySpace which is a good read in itself but moves into reasons for success later. Before you scream “but it does to me!” let me acknowledge that you’re right. It does matter to you. The…