Transitioning from Print to Interactive Digital Publishing

PUBLIC is an innovative print periodical with a 25 year history exploring the intersection between art, design, technology and contemporary culture. This Mitacs fellowship will develop the journals open access interactive web platform, PUBLIC:PORTAL, using information visualization and design to showcase the journals cutting-edge collaborative and cross-disciplinary work. This project designs and tests graphical user interfaces and information visualization strategies in order to investigate the ways that abstract and complex information can be conveyed through intuitive design. PUBLIC:PORTAL will capitalize on the unique potential of the digital platform to construct a responsive, flexible and adaptive digital infrastructure to facilitate collaborations and experiments between researchers and artists/designers.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Longford

Student:

Shawn Newman

Partner:

Public Access

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Digital media

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