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NODEM2010 is going to focus on digital media as a means for crossing of borders. Throughout three days in and around Copenhagen, the participants will meet high profiled keynote speakers and attend inspiring workshops, exhibitions and other activities at some of the most innovative Danish museums. As well as presenting and discussing state-of-the-art new media projects, NODEM2010 also aims to offer a framework for active networking through social events and venues for discussing more day-to-day problems with digital media

Keynote speaker: Fiona Cameron

Fiona Cameron is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is a leading scholar in the field of museum studies. Among other things her research investigates digital media and museum collections in a globalizing world. She has recently been co-editing Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage (MIT Press, 2007) as well as Hot Topics, Culture, Museums (forthcoming).
Other relevant articles are “”Object-oriented Democracies: Conceptualising Museum Collections in Networks” (2008), “The Politics of Heritage Authorship” (2007), ”Digital Futures II: Museum Collections, Documentations and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms” (2005), “Digital Futures I: Museum Collections, Users, Information Needs and the Cultural Construction of Knowledge” (2003) and “Wired Collections – the Next Generation” (2001). Please visit Fiona’s website: http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers/dr_fiona_cameron

Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Drotner

Kirsten Drotner is professor at the Institute for Litterature, Culture and Media at the University of Southern Denmark and leader of DREAM (Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials). DREAM is a national research consortium, currently comprising two Danish universities, three university departments, a research library, three Danish museums and galleries and one science centres.

Her research areas include media history, qualitative metodology, audience studies, digital content creation, user-generated innovation.

Keynote speaker: Pranav Mistry

Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense. He is a research assistant and
a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. Designer, Engineer and Inventor, Pranav
Mistry is passionate about integrating the world of information with our
real world interactions. Among some of his previous work, Pranav has made
intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send
reminders and messages; a pen that can draw in 3D; a public map that can act
as Google of physical world; and an invisible computer mouse. Pranav holds a
Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT
Bombay besides his Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from Gujarat
University. Pranav’s research interests include Ubiquitous computing,
Gestural and Tangible Interaction, AI, Augmented reality, Machine vision,
Collective intelligence and Robotics. Sixth Sense has been awarded 2009
Invention Award by Popular Science. Pranav also won Young Innovator Award
TR35 by Technology Review and recently also named on 2010 Creativity 50 list
- the list of the most influential and inspiring creative personalities of 2010. http://www.pranavmistry.com

FRIDAY 9.10-9.45. Title: “Invisible Computing”
Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen.
Although the miniaturization of computing devices now allows us to carry
computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital
world of information, there is no link between these devices and our
interactions with the physical world. I am interested in exploring various
ways that can bring intangible, digital information out into the physical
world around us. It is like painting the real world with dynamic pixels.
Similarly, how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects and how
we use these objects to interact with the digital space. It is about
blending the digital world with the physical world and making the computing
in true sense invisible.

Keynote speaker: Nina Simon

Nina Simon is an independent exhibit designer who has been described as a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine. She is the principal of Museum 2.0, a design firm that works with cultural institutions worldwide on innovative projects that invite visitors to engage as collaborators and active participants. Nina is the author of The Participatory Museum (2010) and the popular Museum 2.0 blog. Previously, Nina served as curator at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA, and was the Experience Development Specialist at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Some of Nina Simon’s current projects involves the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California concerning an online community for aquarium professionals about communicating climate change to visitors; the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum in Seattle in order to develop ways to deepen and broaden relationships with teens; the National Gallery of Denmark, as an adviser in support of their SMK digital initiatives.

Keynote speaker: Michael Edson

Michael Edson is the Smithsonian Institution’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy. Michael has worked on numerous award-winning projects and has been involved in practically every aspect of technology and New
Media for museums. In addition to developing the Smithsonian’s first Web and New Media Strategy and the Smithsonian Commons concept, Michael helped create the Smithsonian’s first blog, Eye Level , and the first Alternative Reality Game to take place in a museum, Ghosts of a Chance . Michael has a BA from Wesleyan University.