Call to conference!

Posted by James Cokeham in Blog Posts, Conference, Digital on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 11:14 am | No Comments

A couple of interesting industry conferences coming up in the new year: ‘Digital Past 2010: New technologies in heritage, interpretation & outreach’ 16th – 17th February 2010 @ St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff. Explores latest technical survey and digitial interpretation techniques and their practical application within the heritage industry. Hosted by The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monument of Wales. Check out http://www.see3d.co.uk/digitalpast/ for more details. ‘Education in the Outdoors’ 23rd February...

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Imagemakers in Utrecht

Posted by David Masters in Blog Posts, Conference, Heritage, Interpretation on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pm | No Comments

I have recently returned from a fascinating ‘Portico’ project meeting in Utrecht at the invitation of Cheshire West and Chester. Portico is an EU funded scheme to pilot and promote economic development in historic cities. Chester, the UK partner, have invited Imagemakers to participate as their interpretation advisers – the result being a short trip to Utrecht, Holland, to discuss ‘time travel’ and the use of new technology to tell the story of very old cities. We are excited to be involved at the early stages of this project. Outputs that we...

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Museums Association: Go Digital Conference Part 2

Posted by James Cokeham in Blog Posts, Conference, Digital on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 1:36 pm | No Comments

The afternoon of the Museum Association’s ‘Go Digital’ conference brought further interesting speakers and subsequent food for thought. Sarah Angliss (complete with scary talking doll), a musician and robotics engineer, spoke passionately about the need to consider the interpretive potential of physical, as well as artificial, computing. This included an outline of the various options available, an impression of the medium’s capabilities and the cost effectiveness and (relative!!) ease with which exhibits can be built. Generally fascinating but also...

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Museums Association: Go Digital Conference Part 1

Posted by James Cokeham in Blog Posts, Conference, Digital, Exhibition Design, Interactive, Interpretation on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 9:55 am | No Comments

I was fortunate enough to attend the Museum Association’s ‘Go Digital: New trends in electronic media’ conference in London-town this week. It proved to be an interesting and worthwhile professional forum, reinforcing the central role that digital technology has to play within our interpretive schemes and exhibitions, speculating as to its broad potential and providing a timely reminder of the pitfalls we must all work hard to avoid. I’ll provide a brief synopsis of the day’s presentations, along with some of my personal reactions...

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