michael murtaugh
automatist.org
rue brichaut 51
1030 brussels
belgium
+32 489 255 235
mm @ automatist.org

where much of my attention goes at the moment

activearchives
Active Archives is a project, together with members of Constant to make media archiving tools for cultural institutions. The emphasis is on tools and formats that support speading and reuse of the materials of an archive.
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I teach the "Technical Days" at the Piet Zwart Networked Media program at an art academy in Rotterdam. This is the wiki we use.

Stuff I worked on (or am working on) that is (still) online

The "videodagboeken" are an ongoing project for KWF Kankerbestrijding (Dutch Cancer Foundation)

KWF videodagboek: Prostaatkanker (2007 - present) (with Jeanine de Bruin) [link]
KWF videodagboek: Borstkanker (2006 - present) (with Jeanine de Bruin) [link]
Department of Reading (2007 - present), Experiments connecting text-chat to wikis, with Sönke Hallman and Tsila Hassine [link]
Website Openorg.nl (2008); with Arjen de Jong, wiki for sharing knowledge among non-profit organizations, for Worm, Rotterdam [link]
Website Anya van Lit (2008); "Google Maps for your contact sheets" [link]
"Write with icons", part of Female Icons (2007) with De Geuzen [link]
Wandering Banquets (2007) Website for catering / performance troupe [link]
Female Icons (2007) with De Geuzen [link]
Butt Magazine website (2006) with Mannschaft [link]
Software Studies (2005), with Matthew Fuller, editorial CMS for peer review of a glossary of software terminology [link]
Web Design Timeline (2005) with Femke Snelting [link]
Clapping music (2005) [link]
Robott.org (2004) CMS designed with and for Joost Bottema [link]
Map of Creativity (2003), with Remon Tijssen, some riveting discussion about "my process" [link]
Website Ilya Rabinovich (2003) [link]
Unravelling Histories (2002) (with De Geuzen) [link]
Blood: mak.frankfurt (2001) (with Joost Bottema) [link]
Comment Browser: London rail accident (2000) [link]
Terugblik newMetropolis (1999) [link]
Elastic catalog: News in the future (1996) [link]
JBW: A random walk through the 20th century (1995) (with Glorianna Davenport and others) [link]
ConTour: Boston renewed vistas (1995) (with Glorianna Davenport and others) [link]

Writing

Interaction
in Software Studies, MIT Press 2008

Automatist Storyteller Systems and the Shifting Sands of Story
with Glorianna Davenport
IBM Systems Journal Volume 36, Issue 3 (1997)

The Automatist Storytelling System
Masters Thesis, 1996

ConText: towards the evolving documentary
with Glorianna Davenport
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia (1995)
San Francisco, California, United States, pp. 381-389

Historical sites

activearchives
I did my Master's study (1994-1996) in the Interactive Cinema Group of Glorianna Davenport. I had different hair and glasses in the past, but then didn't we all.