13 December 2006

Unveiling the Museum of Lost Interactions

Photo opportunity: Wednesday 13th December, 7pm
Studio 3, Level 8, Matthew Building
Duncan of Jordanstone College,
University of Dundee.

The Interaction Archaeologists of Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee will put on display this week some of history’s great lost treasures at the `Museum of Lost Interactions’.

The most recent additions to the collection include such diverse wonders as the Victorian 4-track sampler and the portable Morse code device, which is being hailed as the earliest precursor to the mobile phone.

"These are amazing artifacts which offer a thought provoking reflection on the ubiquitous technologies of our present society," said Shaun McWhinnie, one of the intrepid `archaeologists’ who has helped put the exhibition together.

The exhibits were `discovered’ by the students on the pioneering Interactive Media Design course at the University.

The Interactive Media Design department is aimed at helping to shape the creative thinkers and digital explorers who will develop the information rich environments of the future.

Within a unique environment drawn from both the School of Computing and the School of Design at the University of Dundee, students explore many kinds of interactive design and cutting-edge technologies, plus the ability to locate and solve design problems and to think critically and commercially about the mushrooming virtual world.

CONTACT:
Shaun McWhinnie, (Exhibition PR)
email: smcwhinnie@computing.dundee.ac.uk
tel: 07725876022

*Course Information*
http://www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/imd

For media enquiries contact:

Roddy Isles
Head, Press Office
University of Dundee
Nethergate Dundee, DD1 4HN
TEL: 01382 384910
E-MAIL: r.isles@dundee.ac.uk