links for 2009-01-30

• Julia Meltzer and David Thorne | About
  Julia Meltzer and David Thorne produce videos, photographs, and installations. From 1999 to 2003, their projects centered on secrecy, history, and memory.
  (tags: meltzerthorne,video,installation,secrecy,cia)

links for 2009-01-29

• RiTa
  RiTa is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple tools for experimenting with generative literature.
  (tags: RiTA processing programming literature)
• Guide by Cell – cell phone audio tours for your institution.
  Guide by Cell turns cell phones into audio guides.
  (tags: mobile audioguide cell museum guide audio)

links for 2009-01-27

• area/code: Superstar
  Superstar is a massively multiplayer real-world game, tested at the 2005 Ubicomp conference in Tokyo. The game users Japanese Puri Kura sticker-clubs as a starting point for a playful experiment in social networks, automated phonecam image analysis, and urban visual culture.
  (tags: mobile games visual-search japan)

links for 2009-01-23

• Caligraft
  Cool typography FX using Processing.
  (tags: processing typography visualization design)
• Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné
  This is the official website of the Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings.
  (tags: ruscha art painting typography)

links for 2009-01-14

• Confessions of an Aca/Fan: How Brazil Is Reshaping the Futures of Entertainment
  This is piracy on a scale which would wake most American media executives up in a cold sweat. But Mota's point is that it also insured an unprecidented level of visibility for the film
  (tags: jenkins convergence brazil cinema self-distribution bittorrent piracy)

links for 2009-01-13

• Interactive Games Make Museums A Place To Play : NPR
  Fifty teenagers from New Jersey are practically running around a pristine Smithsonian gallery at the Luce Foundation Center for American Art in Washington, D.C. They've broken up into teams to play a multimedia scavenger hunt, in which objects in the collection are part of the clues, and players use cell phones with text messaging to solve them.
  (tags: arg museum npr games collaboration)