Hello everybody,
I'm looking for a student of multimedia who is interested in collaborating with me on my master research presentation!
I'm in the 2nd year of my master studies at the Conservatory in Amsterdam and working on my master research. The presentation of my research results in March 2010 will take place partly in the form of a written paper but I also wish to make it more .real. by putting results + information into a computer program.
The title of my research is Musical Crossroads -- a Geography of Styles in the 18th Century Germany and will deal with reconstructing the intercultural and international networks an 18th century musician was involved in.
My idea is to bring information about major European cities on an interactive map, revealing their interconnectedness and the process of their development.
Therefore a program shall
process information about cultural activities of each city
present them visually in a convenient and appealing way and make them accessible via various keywords
show the hierarchy in cultural activity amongst the cities and how it changed with progress of time
display networks in time and space and the paths which took the flows of information between the centers
be individually adjustable for the user (e.g. if somebody is searching for information about a specific composer or a specific year, it shall highlight around this subject on that map all cities of importance and draw the connections between them)
furthermore it shall be expandable if somebody wants to add information to a city