Today my colleagues Matthew Battles, Pablo Barria and I presented the Curarium project to this year’s class of Berkman Center fellows, as well as a lively group of Berkman friends and Berkmaniacs. Curarium is a platform designed to leverage the power of the crowd in order to annotate, curate, and augment works within and beyond their respective collections, with the aim of constructing sharable, media-rich stories and elaborate arguments about individual items as well as…
 
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Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of being involved in several projects that explore the limits of the World Wide Web as a support for live multi-sited performances as well as the potential for network latencies to become expressive features of such real-time performances. Instead of being understood simply as the enemy to be overcome in order to achieve a “live-like effect,” network latencies become a necessary, even desirable feature to be interpreted…
 
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A short documentary film on the making of the SKI PAST exhibition was recently completed by Film Work, a media production studio in Trento. Inaugurated in the fall of 2012, SKI PAST: histories of Nordic sport in Fiemme and the world will remain open until June 2013 and provides an innovative approach to the presentation of sports history in a no less innovative site: the Trento tunnels known as Le Gallerie –two former superhighway tunnels…
 
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