A recently presented HyperStudio Talk featured Amber Frid-Jimenez, new media artist, technologist, and designer who traced the history of participation in artistic movements and early networked communication to contextualize a series of experimental projects at the intersection of performance and participation online.

HyperStudio and Dr. Jeffrey Ravel, Associate Professor in History at MIT, are prototyping the Comédie-Française Registers Project, using advanced search and visualization tools to investigate 17th-18th century theatre practices.

What makes a good visualization? Well, the NSF had some sort of answer last week, when they announced the winners for their 2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Take a look; some of the work is stunning and the entries did get me thinking about why some visualizations are better than others. - Madeleine Elish.

I just watched the demo for Xcavator.net: Photo Search for Professionals, an image search engine that effectively uses the natural interplay between the left and right sides of the brain (linguistic processing and visual processing). - Jody Walker

Major art museums have embarked on a project to include social tagging - by people like you and me - to increase the findability of objects in their collections. The Steve Tagger makes it easy for people to describe works of art in our own words, which can then be used by others who search. - Suzana Lisanti

Researchers, academics, and diplomats from the US and Iran examine HyperStudio Examines Missed Opportunities Between United States and Iran using HyperStudio's new digital humanities toolkit Repertoire. The project is developed in collaboration with MIT's Center for International Studies and other partners.