Notes from Tate Handheld Conference – Nancy Proctor

Nancy Proctor is Head of Mobile Strategy & Initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution. Links: Video and some notes from Nancy on the Tate Handheld wiki Slides on Slideshare My notes* Museum visitors using their own technology, instead of the museum’s devices might lead to cost savings. No need to pay so much for media players, charging […]

Wanted

I am hugely grateful to Mike’s recent post over at Five Players where he’s written (amongst other things) about Wanted. Wanted is the gameshow that I’ve often described to people in an overenthusiastic manner, but without ever remembering the name. Until now it has always eluded my (admittedly half-hearted) efforts to find any reference to the show […]

DJs and configurable media

From part two of The Reconfigurable Culture of Contemporary Music, an interview with Aram Sinnreich: if we inspect a DJ’s laptop, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to say on the face of it which sound files and applications are materials, which are tools, and which are finished products. The interesting thing is that, unlike […]