At one of our meetings at the National Holocaust Centre with whom we’re working on the Pervasive Monuments project, Adam Moore, our resident information scientist and geo-spatial guy said something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Here’s the summation to the best of my recollection: ”In ‘hard’ sciences, like physics and maths, there [...]
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Fuzziness, Data and Truth
Monday, August 16th, 2010The Hunt
Friday, June 25th, 2010The Pervasive Monuments project is in full, almost incomprehensible swing, and the swirling mass of ideas, issues and things to consider seems to multiply by the second. We’ve been looking at is the notion of a monument, or rather, a digital or “pervasive” monument as not just a static thing or even a static experience, [...]
Pervasive Monuments
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Just how do we remember? How do we express this physically in space, and in public? Monuments are how we’ve done this since mankind has first started walking this earth. Most of the time however, monuments, like history, are written by the victors and those with the money and the power to make their memory [...]
Spomenik
Saturday, November 28th, 2009www.spomenik.org Spomenik is now part of the Pervasive Monuments project run by Horizon Digital Economy Research run out of the University of Nottingham (UK). Pervasive Monuments began in reality while I was working with Dave Kirk ( now a lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Nottingham University) at Microsoft Research Cambridgewhere we were both working on the Family Archive project. [...]
