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National Geographic: 3D Bird Animation and Gesture Recognition

National Geographic asked Unified Field to build interactive experiences that engage visitors for their upcoming “Birds of Paradise” exhibit at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington DC. This post covers some of our process building the Dance Dance Evolution game, in which players dance against one another in order to control 3D virtual Parotia birds as they enact actual mating-dance moves that the birds utilize in nature.

Legible Cities: The Human Face of Smart Cities

Friday, I am hosting a panel at the ECSITE 2012 conference in Toulouse, France on Legible Cities, a trend in which contemporary urban environments are piloting programs that leverage their vast storehouses of data to enhance city's services and improve inhabitants’ quality of life. ECSITE is the European network of science centers and museums, linking science communication professionals in more than 400 institutions in 50 countries.

UNIFIED FIELD’s Chief Strategist to Host Panel at ECSITE 2012 in France

Eli Kuslansky, Founding Partner and Chief Strategist at Unified Field will host a panel on Science Center’s role in Legible Cities at the 2012 ECSITE conference in Toulouse, France. ECSITE is the European network of science centers and museums, linking science communication professionals in more than 400 institutions in 50 countries.

Legible Cities is a trend in urbanization where cities are leveraging their vast storehouse of data for interactive outdoor display, websites, mobile applications, digital way finding programs, and art installations to delivery better services and enhance aspects of people’s lives. Giving people better access redefines and enhances their experience of the city.

Unified Field's Titanic Exhibit featured on ABC News

The Unified Field’s new interactive floor at the National Geographic Museum’s ‘Titanic: 100 Year Obsession’ exhibit, which opened on March 29, 2012, is featured on ABC News. Here is the link: http://abcn.ws/HPmJEo

Unified Field Co-Director to Give Lecture at Prestigious Trinity College in Dublin

DUBLIN, IRELAND, October 6, 2011- Unified Field, the prestigious digital agency based in New York City, will be represented in Dublin by their Founding Partner and Chief Strategist, Eli Kuslansky, who will be delivering a lecture, Make it Real, at Trinity College, Dublin on October 12th.

Unified Field and the Sony Wonder Technology Lab Invite Visitors to Test Their DJ Skills

NEW YORK, October 6, 2011- Unified Field, the prestigious digital design agency based in New York City, recently created the unique Music Mixer interactive exhibit at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in midtown Manhattan, highlighting the music of multi-Grammy® Award winner Alicia Keys.

Mediating the Physical and Virtual

We live in two worlds, one of physical being and one of identity. We live in the physical world of our bodies, place, architecture and transportation. In the virtual world, however, we have dual identities: who we think we are internally, as well as the parallel digital identity provided to us and by us through credit cards, social networks, RFIDs, and avatars.

This duality of virtual identities reveals an important question: Why is it that our virtual existence seems so natural?

A Big Experience, a Small Budget — and Technology for Our Time

Creating the museum of tomorrow isn’t only about featuring the latest whiz-bang, high-tech smart devices. It involves smartly using resources to connect people with information.

This maxim applies to everything from conversations and social networks to the ways in which we use media and technology to elegantly facilitate those dialogues.

Eli Kuslansky to Give Lecture at AIANY Center for Architecture

Eli Kuslansky, Managing Partner at Unified Field will give a lecture on Media Architecture Media Architecture is an evolving discipline and market that combines digital media, networks and the built environment.

The Rashomon 羅生門 School of Design

I was sitting in the bar at the Indianapolis Hyatt hotel listening to Shoshana Wasserman talk about the amazing new American Indian Cultural Center & Museum (AICCM) to be built in Oklahoma City. Shoshana is a member of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and is the Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Museum. Shoshana and I were in Indianapolis for the 2009 Museum on The Web conference. http://www.aiccm.org/

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