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Cultures of the Book, University of Leeds9 June 2016
New Materialities Andrew PrescottUniversity of Glasgow
Roll from the English royal chancery, 1379-1380
14th-century ‘pipe roll’ from the English Royal Exchequer now made available via the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website at the O’Quinn
Law Library, University of Houston: aalt.law.uh.edu
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, London, British Library, Add. MS. 49598, ff. 90v-91: Blessing for the feast of St Ætheldreda
3D imaging of the eighth-century St Chad Gospels at Lichfield Cathedral by Professor William Endres, University of Kentucky: lichfield.as.uky.edu
Poster for sake printed by the Toppan printing company,
Tokyo, 1915-23.
Microminiature printed bible, measuring 4 millimetres square,
produced by Toppan for the New York World’s
Fair, 1965
Toppan report on the 2004 Cicero project with the Vatican Library for use of digital imaging to investigate palimpsest manuscripts
yourfry.com
Stephen Fry’s Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqahjME6Tbg
Sara Weigold, The Book of Bipolarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eoUycIk5M
Cathy Horton’s interactive shipping forecast map, made using conductive ink:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGSQ8ESZRA
Conductive ink used to draw (or write) a circuit - or paint a light switch on the wall
Postcard player created by Uniform
and Bare Conductive
Mike Shorter and Jon Rogers, A Touch of Fryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=jCBoKblmhds
http://productresearch.dundee.ac.uk
Eduardo Kac, Lagoglyph Sound System, proof of concept, 2012https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYn7oQlLiA
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Dataflags: Lehmann Brothers (2014) Somerset paper, screenprint, data from the last ten years of Lehman Brothers’ financial trading, electric paint, soundsystem, custom code, voice soprano (Madge).
2.40x1.40x0.05mt
Dalziel and Pow, Engaging Spaces exhibit at Retail Design Expo, London, March 2015. A combination of data projection and conductive ink is used to create an interactive mural:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poA9bZ76iJk
“Aestheticode is a machine readable and human readable aesthetic encoding system. It is similar in function to a barcode, except it looks like a Sol LeWitt wall painting or Gerhard Richter's window in the Cologne Cathedral. Its complexity is
similar to that of morse code”.
Aestheticodes: aestheticodes.com.
carolanguitar.com
Steve Benford’s introduction to the project is at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjgn5YO1Lk
“We’ve made a musical instrument that tells you its own life story. It captures its history and will play it
back to you”
Tangible Memories project: http://tangible-memories.com
• An app that enables residents to work with families and care staff to create their own interactive life history books or group history books. Stories are recorded into the book and played back by simply scanning pages of the book.
• An interactive rocking chair that enables residents to listen to audio including sounds of nature, poems and favourite music.
• A tactile patchwork cushion which can be programmed to play favourite music or audio stories – personalized for individual residents, using printed images and visual recognition software.
• A ‘pick up to play’ music app, that makes listening to a memory filled music playlist as simple as picking up the phone.
• The use of Virtual Reality headsets that can transport residents to local landmarks and places they are no longer able to visit.
Physical Charts, a project by Microsoft Research Cambridge for the Tenison Road community project that set out to encourage civic engagement with locally generated
data, such as surveys on traffic and air quality. The result is a mechanical pie chart made from slices of sheet plastic attached to a central motor and bar chart constructed
from motorised measuring tapes, both of which animate to display real-time data. They are now on display in a shop window in Cambridge.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/physicalcharts/
Eduardo Kac, ‘Untitled II’, 1982
Holo/Olho (1983) Holo/Eye
Bob Cobbing, Tiger I (1971)
Tom Edmunds's "compromise poem box" (1969)
Iain Hamilton Finlay, Sheaves (1970)
Iain Hamilton Finlay, The Present Order (1983)
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, London, British Library, Add. MS. 49598, ff. 90v-91: Blessing for the feast of St Ætheldreda
DataBronze, 2013: Ian Gwilt, Sheffield Hallam University
