Meeting with Chelsea graphics design students
Project: ArtivityI spoke to the students from the MA Graphics Design and Communication course as I am looking for student volunteers to test any Artivity tools (when they are ready) and collect some...
View ArticleCCW documenting practice meeting
Project: ArtivityThanks to Claire (Mokrauer-Madden) another CCW graduate school meeting about documentation took place today. Claire circulated a few questions which were useful as a starting point for...
View ArticleArtivity update - meeting with Semiodesk
Project: ArtivityI had another good meeting with the Sebastian and Moritz from Semiodesk Their new website is up and running and it features Artivity as one of the projects they are working on. We...
View ArticleFirst Artivity browser screenshots
Project: ArtivityJust had another meeting with Sebastian and Moritz from Semiodesk about Artivity. We discussed some new metrics that can be calculated on Inkscape and svg files. The metrics are...
View ArticleArtivity meeting in Germany
Project: ArtivityLast week I was in Germany to meet Sebastian Faubel and Moritz Eberl from Semiodesk. We had a great meeting and laid the plans for Phase 2 and 3 of the project. We discussed the new...
View ArticleMore Artivity screenshots
Project: ArtivityThe Artivity Explorer window is developing nicely. The panel on the left now is used as a summary of the statistics extracted from the data which looks a lot more tidy. The right of...
View ArticleArtivity goes on to phase 2
Project: ArtivityFollowing the JISC sandpit on the 13th and 14th of July, Artivity is now funded for another 4 months by JISC. This is great news for the project as it will give us the opportunity to...
View ArticleExport formats
Project: ArtivityI have been looking recently at the issue of sharing Artivity data. I did a short bibliographical review (attached at the bottom of the post) and it confirms that the idea of the...
View ArticleThe future of Artivity and Zeitgeist
Project: ArtivitySince the inception of this project the idea of capturing contextual research data started after looking at the idea of the semantic desktop. The main implementation of the semantic...
View ArticleArtivity laptops ready
Project: ArtivityThe past few weeks have been extremely busy and I had hardly any time to update the Artivity blog. This is what we have been doing:Sebastian and Moritz have now ported the whole...
View ArticleArtivity artists for phase 2
Project: ArtivityI have been meaning to write a blog post about the artists who are testing Artivity tools and producing some data for us and today I managed to get some time to do it. The two Artivity...
View ArticleGino Ballantyne's contribution
Project: ArtivityHaving completed nearly all of the testing sessions for the second phase of Artivity I have began publishing the resulting data in figshare. The first batch is already up from the...
View ArticleArtivity project meeting (2015-12-01)
Project: ArtivityOn the 1st of December Sebastian and Moritz from Semiodesk visited Chelsea College of Arts for a day long project meeting about Artivity. This was to conclude phase 2 and prepare for...
View ArticleSt. Catherine's boxing: spotting wrong dimensions
Project: Saint Catherine's ProjectI spent a few hours today reviving the St. Catherine's boxing project and especially the Java code that has been dormant since this publication and while waiting for...
View ArticleArtivity goes on to phase 3
Project: ArtivityWith a bit of a delay, I am updating the project blog to announce that Artivity has been awarded funding for the third phase of the project. See Daniela's blog entry about it. Since...
View ArticleLibre Graphics Meeting 2016
Project: ArtivityLast month, Sebastian, Moritz and I attended the Libre Graphics Meeting and gave a paper about Artivity. The paper was received very well and we did have a short discussion about the...
View ArticleArtivity for MacOSX
Project: ArtivitySebastian Faubel and Moritz Eberl from Semiodesk have been working hard on the first version of Artivity for the MacOSX which supports Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator and Google...
View ArticleNew Artivity website
Project: ArtivityGiven that the Alpha release of Artivity for MacOSX is now ready to download, this was a good chance to create a new online presence where the most recent Artivity versions can be...
View ArticleSummary of work during phase 3 (so far)
Project: ArtivityArtivity on MacOSXGoing forward from phase 2 our main target has been to release Artivity for the MacOSX platform supporting Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop as two popular...
View ArticleGino Ballantyne in Bookmarks XIV
Project: ArtivityGino Ballantyne is the artist who perhaps has worked with Artivity for the longest period of time. Gino tested Artivity since phases one and two, working with Inkscape and Linux. He...
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