Interaction venice

Gilian Crampton Smith is a god but strangely down to earth - I had a nice lunch with her on the grass in a park near the conferance at the last CHI.  I used to work with her Husband at the Bartlett school of architecture - he's a really nice guy just wonderful - and met her though him. I used to demo NeXT machines to her students ( this was all pre-internet).  Nina Pope and Rory Hamilton who had both been digital artists in residence who then went to work on Gillian's  Computer related design course. I was always really jealous of her computer related design course  at the RCA. I mean I loved the freedom for the students - provided it was related to computers and design and computers you could do it. Gillian ended up being on my executive committee for the virtual environments course ( now adaptive architectural computation at the Bartlett) which gave the course a lot of credibility to architecture back then. Now Gilian is work in Venice - could you imagine anything more cool ?
If I was young again I would definitely do that course.  


Any way GCS is rightly famous for basically giving Durrell Bishop the space do to the marble answering machine. Still for me one of the clearst and most viable products for tangible technology. I remember seeing this video at the first Doors of Perception conference ( which was so cool). It was one of those - I know the world has change moments when I first saw it. Now you can judge for your self. 




Durrell Bishop Marble Answer Machine from Luckybite on Vimeo.