Photosynth is recently developed software which allows you to upload and knit together a number of images of the same location into a navigable cyberspace. This video depicts the application of the software to the site of Stonehenge by National Geographic. This is something we could apply to the Monto or Clanbrassil Street - creating an online, navigable streetscape which could incorporate photographs of traces or objects of archaeological interest that might otherwise be glossed over.
Jonathan Harris has dedicated his life to collecting and sharing stories. He has developed some of the most inspiring and cutting edge story-telling media around. This recent talk at TED demonstrates how powerful digital storytelling platforms can be. We could possibly deploy something similar in capturing stories in the Monto or Clanbrassil Street.
His project The Whale Hunt shows the different possibilities for mobilising digital photographs and metadata to construct navigable digital photo-stories - creating different story-lines by select specific components. Have a play through the hunt HERE. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the screen to play with the different modes (mosaic, timeline, pinwheel, etc.).
His and Sep Kamvar's project - We Feel Fine - is an amazing demonstration of the possibilities of public blogging to capture a sense of how we feel about the world - creating shared communal stories. The We Feel Fine applet allows you to dive through a storm of contemporary emotions - shared publicly to the world. (This one is my personal favourite.)
Placing Voices - Voicing Places is a collaborative investigation and mediation of the contemporary heritages and material cultures of inner-city Dublin. Clanbrassil St and the Monto will be explored throughout Autumn and Winter 2008 through archaeology, art, digital storytelling, photography and sociology. The project hopes to inspire news understandings of the co-temporal qualities of the things both known, forgotten and sometimes remembered about the places we civically share.
