Interaction design and process management. I contributed to concept, technical solution and implementation of using live scribes (digital scribbles by smart pens) and photo as an alternative way to disseminate an international seminar. The live scribes where published online in an experimental web interface inviting both sequential and what we called relational reading (meta tags) and built throughout the time of the seminar the growing sound installation Assembled Speakers (designed in collaboration with sound artist Jørgen Larsson. Sem & Larson collaborated also on another sound installation OMORD, in 2010).
This particular example of my extensive experience of research dissemination experiments was part of the EU project gRig - "a group of European artistic and cultural operators gathered around a mutual purpose; to research and create meaningful situations in hybrid (or mixed) reality, where digital media and physical materials, objects and spaces are increasingly intertwined".
Though the website and flash technology used to build it is old, the concept of live peer-scribbles and both sequential and relational reading of research seminar dissemination, is still interesting :)
From mail to all speakers ..."For these two seminars (Online Research Mediation in the Arts, Narrative Strategies) we have chosen to adapt the live scribe pens, a paper-based computing platform, to record sound and scribbles from the presentations together with series of still pictures. This instead of of e.g. video recordings. The export of the sound/scribbles to the life scribe community online will be embedded in entries on the gRig website. In addition, the sound from the live scribe pens will feed an installation that will expand throughout the two seminars. Our aim is to make these scribbles valuable, parallel interpretations and reflections of the talks. Our hope is that some of you will contribute to the variety. You would probably scribble not only conceptually but aesthetically ...interesting reflections."
