A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Are there particles of non-terrestrial origin in our Cosmic Living Room? Two thirds of the dust in your house comes from outside, tracked in from your feet or as airborne particles. Dust is always along for the ride, dropping off or being picked up, it follows you everywhere you go, through the mundane as often as […]
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Written by Jonathon Keats and Alice Gorman
A few years ago, we started to think about the problems of communicating with sentient beings beyond our planet. Since the earliest days of the Space Age, scientists have tried to send messages to other beings using spacecraft and radio signals. They’ve used telescopes to look for possible signs of planetary engineering, and listened for […]
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Who controls the satellites that surround us?
Satellites come in a myriad of shapes and sizes, and if you have visited the Universal Gallery at MOD. during Waging Peace, you will have experienced the diverse ecosystem of satellites orbiting the room. These satellites, selected by Dr Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist that you can find online @DrSpaceJunk, and modelled and animated by […]
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At the end of September I participated in the Digital Humanities Conference Australasia, held at the UniSA City West campus. It was an opportunity to hear from people working in the digital humanities around the world, and I enjoyed talks on topics from the intersection of technology and museums, to how social media analysis has […]
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Last fortnight I had the pleasure of participating in Stuart Campbell’s (aka Sutu) workshop on augmented reality (AR). AR is an interactive experience of the real-world whereby computer-generated sensory information, e.g., visual, auditory, etc is overlaid with the physical world in a way that is perceived as immersive. If you have not experienced AR yet, […]
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A four-part podcast series by UniSA final year journalism students.
What happens when you bring together one of Australia’s newest and most innovative public museums, MOD. with a trio of final year journalism students? MOD.cast – a four-part podcast series that asks some of the big and controversial questions young people want to understand. The series explores reality in a virtual world, the blur between […]
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Tomorrow (Saturday 10 February) marks three months until we launch MOD.
For the last 12 and a bit months, we have thinking about a space that is largely unknown and mostly unseen. While we have had floor plans, dimensions, ceiling grids and approximate locations, we have been limited, since January last year, to a once-monthly visit inside at best. I reckon I’ve spent a total of […]
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2017 has been a huge year for MOD.
Our team has grown from one person (Kristin) to nine. We’ve produced an anthology and an art exhibition in collaboration with SA Museum and UniSA’s wonderful communication design students. We’ve run robot and design workshops with young people and have welcomed our first Youth Advisory Board. We’ve met so many new people — makers, artists, technologists, researchers, creators and young adults who have helped us along the […]
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“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings”. (Quiller-Crouch, 1914) Just like any good writer, we’ve been killing our darlings as we’ve developed the narrative, and the content, for our first exhibition MOD.IFY. This has been a necessary part […]
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A special guest post from MOD.YAB member, Eleanor Brown
A few months ago I was asked to join the MOD. YAB. Which is the Youth Advisory Board for MOD. (You can check it out here!) Being a part of the YAB has already taught me a lot, including how much learning and school has changed. Eleanor Browne […]
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