The interactive presentation of heritage materials
Browsing endless amounts of historical audio-visual material is not exactly music for the millions. To draw attention to their assets, cultural heritage institutions have to constantly look for ways to tell the stories that are hidden in their collections. Translate them into forms that are accessible, on present day technology that can get the attention … Continue reading
The lack of a body of works
Two months into the research project and one aspect has ‘failed’. One of the goals I set myself was to come up with a body of interactive works based on which observations could be made about the technical variety, the genres that are represented and which analytical tools could be developed. The criteria I came … Continue reading
Interactives: changing authorship in the digital age?
In the midst of what seems a perpetual period of Kuhnian crisis science (during which more questions than answers accumulate) I would like to share a part of the process. In my previous post I ended with the question whether artists’ intent or the reception of an audience should be the perspective taken when documenting … Continue reading
Library of interactive documentaries
A particulary interesting genre within the broader spectrum of interactive audio-visual productions is the interactive documentary. For cultural heritage institutions such as Sound and Vision, documentaries have always been an important part of their collection because they are such valuable sources of historical information. For some reason, the non-fiction interactives seem more innovative, more popular … Continue reading
Archiving Interactives 