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An interesting publishing experiment finished up at Digital Sparks 2011. ‘Wow Wow Wow Receiver’ is a multi-media publishing project which created poems in real time during the Frankfurt book fair, now also publishing them via Poisiepedia.
‘The event was curated by Duncan White (University of the Arts, London) and 2010LAB.tv in cooperation with web-based publishers Poiesipedia.
Four authors from three continents participated in the four-day event. Pam Brown (Sydney), Kenneth Goldsmith (New York), Lawrence Upton (London), and Peter Hauff (Frankfurt) were responsible for the texts, and Touka Neyestani provided the digital illustrations.
Curator Duncan White is happy about the course of the project: “For three days, the authors wrote three times a day, on the fourth day, we published the book.”
‘SCARLET, or “Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching”, is an exciting new venture at the John Rylands Library. The team have been looking into new and exciting ways to implement technology in teaching and learning.
SCARLET captures and enhances the magical experience of studying first-hand medieval manuscripts, landmark editions and modern literary archives. While viewing an object first-hand, students will use AR markers and/or location-specific triggers to call up supporting materials via mobile devices to help them interrogate, interpret and contextualise the object: to ‘turn the pages’ of a digital facsimile, zooming into details invisible to the naked eye; to hear a text spoken in Middle English; to view online facsimiles of cognate objects in the JRUL and other libraries; to call up metadata; to read secondary literature; and to engage with teaching materials prepared by the tutor. (Source)
