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I have designed or art directed numerous new media projects since 1990, ranging in scale from small websites to some of the largest and most ambitious public kiosk installations and electronic publications of their time.
A selection of projects follows, listed in broadly reverse chronological order. To find out more about any of these projects please contact me.
MOACAT - a touchscreen system for the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
The Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, opened in January 2010. The installation includes fourteen 24-inch wide format touchscreens that allow visitors to explore the 36,000 objects in the collections, via the MOACAT system that I designed and produced.
The computers are deeply integrated into the galleries, with custom graphics and 3D modelled orientation, to help visitors understand where they are and what is around them. The 'you are here' component is based on a Google Sketchup model and uses custom animated walk-throughs linked to search results for the cases and cabinets.
The MOACAT system also includes an ambitious customised Google Earth implementation that enables visitors to interact with the globe to explore where objects in the collection originated.
Data for the system is maintained in the museum's MIMSY XG Collection Management System and images are drawn from their Digital Asset Management system.
An online version will be launched in the near future.
The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
I designed and produced this website to accompany an ambitious US tour of these wonderful works of art from Dijon, France, working with photographer and VR specialist Jared Bendis and project director Len Steinbach.
The site features high resolution 360° imaging with 3 viewpoints of each sculpture, and a 3D 360° view that can be viewed with red/cyan 3D glasses.
Visit the web site at www.mourners.org
Read the Arts Journal review here
Inside the Renaissance Home
This touchscreen exhibit enables visitors to explore objects within the V&A's Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.
The objects are grouped by theme and place, and 26 of them have custom animated treatments that reveal more about how they were used.
Page turning interactives
Also in the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries at the V&A, I developed three touchscreen "page turning" interactives. The brief was to build these on top of a third-party image server platform that has a page turning module designed mainly for online catalogues. I adapted and extended this technology to make it suitable for the touchscreen, and to allow for a whole range of overlays to be placed on the pages, allowing visitors to explore and learn about the page content without interfering with the view of the page.
Tell us what you think
This installation is in the V&A's Ceramics Galleries. Focussing on 20th century studio ceramics, it encourages and enables visitors to record video comments on any of the ceramics on display. Other visitors can then browse these comments and, if they wish, rate them.
The installation uses an open source version of the Flash Media Server and a custom recording and playback interface. We also provided a backend system for remote review of the video clips, so that they can easily be moderated by staff.
Royal Collection microsites
This on-going series of projects forms part of the Royal Collection website (see following page).
I have been responsible for developing a set of tools and templates that enable staff at the Royal Collection to rapidly develop web microsites with an individual style, but with a minimum of custom code and design.
This supports their ambitious exhibitions programme, where each exhibition has its own graphic style. The screenshot shows a portion of the 'Web Exhibitions' page to indicate the diversity and range of microsites that has been produced.
It is possible to create, style and publish a microsite in a matter of hours.
Visit the web site at http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/