WGBH and the Library of Congress are collaborating on an ambitious project to build the first comprehensive digital archive of content from the nation’s public broadcasters and will eventually make it available to the public over the Internet. They will jointly establish a permanent home for the archives with the help of a $1 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Continue reading
Supporting researchers in exploring and examining digitised artefacts presents many challenges in terms of understanding each researcher’s needs, performing appropriate manipulation of and uplift from content, and in presenting a suite of useful research tools to facilitate exploration. This virtual/physical workshop will use CULTURA as a case study to drive discussion by presenting demonstrations and results from the project. The outputs of this workshop will be captured and placed online. Continue reading
Spurred by the Taliban’s destruction of the 1600-year-old Bamiyran Buddhas in Afghanistan, CyArk (short for Cyber Archive) was founded in 2003 to ensure heritage sites are available to future generations, while making them uniquely accessible today. CyArk works as a non-profit organization with experienced teams worldwide to record heritage sites using reality capture technologies such as 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry and traditional survey. Continue reading
Topic: interactivity
Venice’s Biennial of Art just concluded and surely it didn’t disappoint the digital technologies fans nor their expressive potentials.
In the great variety of the Biennial’s artistic choices and expressive forms, the digital assumed different functions and importance degrees, ranging from artworks where there’s no space for the digital to artworks clearly focusing on digital: Studio Azzurro’s work on the Creation for the Holy See, Mohammed Kazem’s interactive installation “Walking on Water” for the Arab Emirates, Miao Xiao’s 3D works for China, just to give some significant examples. Continue reading
The Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office has developed 3D models from its holdings, and a selection of models is available online. The Smithsonian x3D Explorer allows users to interact with the digital objects in a web browser, to access, view and manipulate these objects, and eventually to print them with a in-house 3D printer, as the raw 3D data from the objects will be made available for downloading for personal and non-commercial use. Continue reading
Using interactive technology that belongs to the 21st Century, the song has been transformed into a video that acts as a vintage TV set. Viewers can flick through channels while ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ plays in the background, choosing between news broadcasts, a game show, what appears to be a TV sitcom, and a black and white video of Bob Dylan’s own performance of the song. Continue reading
This year saw the world’s first digital tattoo developed by Anthony Antonelli, which uses a microchip implant to display GIF image data when a mobile phone is hovered over the implant. The principal purpose of this digital tattoo was the storage and display of digital artwork, but Antonelli did suggest the same implant could be used for different types of digital content storage. Continue reading
The Visionary Cross is an international project, aimed at drawing together a number of recent developments in the Digital Humanities and at creating a digital edition of a key group of Anglo-Saxons texts and monuments, related to the Cult of the Cross. As partner of the project, the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI-CNR has worked on the digitization of the Ruthwell Cross and on a web-based digital edition of “The Dream of the Rood” poem. Continue reading
Kyoto’s Terrsa Conference Center hosts the 9th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International SITIS Conference, which is being held on the 2-5 December 2013. SITIS conference is devoted to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web Continue reading
LONDON, UK: last 6 November Historvius released the new app Roman Ruins HD, offering a ground-breaking innovative way to virtually explore the very best Roman ruins in the world while providing a rich, visual tour of incredible Roman landmarks. Historvius is the world’s leading online guide to historical places Continue reading
VII International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI), taking place in Haifa, Israel, on the 24th of February 2014. PATCH workshop aims at building a research agenda for personalization in cultural heritage Continue reading
Visual Engines develops technologies and software products based on automatic visual analysis, searching and recognition. The company offers products and services relying on two in house developed technologies: Visual Information Retrieval (VIR), and Visual Object Recognition (VOR). Both solutions benefit from indexing strategies that are able to deal with a very large amount of images (on the order of hundred millions) with very limited hardware, making it possible to serve visual queries with sub-second response time and with limited budget. Continue reading
8.000 visitors, over 50 eminent guests, sold-out workshops, opening key-note given by Photoshop dad John Knoll, closing by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn, directors of the Xmas movie “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2”. On the 18th of October 2013 VIEW Conference closed its 14th edition and Computer Graphics proved itself to be the protagonist of the exhibition. Continue reading
