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Other than the Envoy’s lack of a cellular connection for making phone calls on the go, and its lack of a camera, the Magic Cap OS and its integration with network service providers such as AT&T and AOL allowed users to do nearly anything that you can do on current-day smartphones: download apps, get directions, check the stock market, check flight information, and use spreadsheets. While some of their designs led to commercial flops and the company dissolved (in 2002), today, these failures are widely regarded as the ideas that would go on to inspire the entire contemporary paradigm of smartphones and electronic wearables such as smart watches.
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The Magic Cap software and operating system (OS) were designed by a pioneering firm called General Magic, founded with the explicit purpose of inventing the future of personal handheld electronic devices, or as they called them, “personal intelligent communicators.” General Magic’s ideas were highly speculative for their time-even bordering on science fiction. This story is told only in part by the Envoy’s physical form-the heart of the story lies within its software and operating system: Magic Cap. The Motorola Envoy, introduced in 1994, holds a highly important place in Cooper Hewitt’s collection-of all of the handheld personal electronic assistants and devices in the museum’s holdings, this one best explains the origins of smartphones. The two-year project was coordinated by an in-house team of conservators, curators, and registrar, and was conducted by digital conservation specialist Ben Fino-Radin and his team at Small Data Industries.īackground: This case study focuses on documenting and preserving interfaces in consumer electronics. The digital age has changed the way information is shared on a daily basis.This week’s posts feature case studies from Cooper Hewitt’s Digital Collections Management Project, a conservation survey of born-digital and hybrid objects in the permanent collection. The widespread use of computer technology pushes us away from traditional books or other tangible materials and into “digital pragmata,” or “digital things.” For example, instead of visiting the James Branch Cabell Library to find the first issue of the Commonwealth Times, it can be viewed in the library’s digital archive.
“Digital pragmata can be textual databases, creative visualizations of information, multimedia explorations, collaboratively annotated maps, course-related blogs and a thousand other projects,” said John Glover, reference librarian for the humanities and reference collection coordinator.
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Glover and Kristina Keogh, reference librarian for the arts, have organized “Digital Pragmata,” a series of panel discussions at VCU designed to explore the trends and techniques in modern scholarship, teaching and creative work. “Visualizing the Digital: Design, Ideas and Platforms,” March 26, 1 to 4 p.m.The “Digital Pragmata” series is the result of a collaboration between VCU Libraries, the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Research.
Ayers, president of the University of Richmond Amanda French, THATCamp coordinator at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and Emily Smith, executive director of 1708 Gallery and curator and creator of InLight Richmond. “Crafting Content: Creation, Scholarship and Organization,” April 25, 1 to 4 p.m.McKelvey, associate professor in the VCU Department of Graphic Design and co-founder of Loop: AIGA Journal of Interactive Design Education, will moderate.
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Panelists are Ben Fino-Radin, digital conservator for Rhizome at the New Museum and manager of the Museum of Modern Art Digital Repository Francesca Fiorani, associate professor in the history of art and architecture at the University of Virginia and director of “Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting,” an electronic archive and Michael Poston, database applications associate at the Folger Shakespeare Library. "Funding Innovation: Avenues, Resources and Support for Projects,” May 2, noon to 2 p.m.Joshua Eckhardt, associate professor in the Department of English and founder, general co-editor of British Virginia, will moderate. Panelists are David Holland, research and entrepreneurial specialists in the School of the Arts, and Jessica Venable, grant analyst in the VCU Office of Research.Įach event will be held in the Multipurpose Room on the second floor of the James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave.
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Sessions are free, but seating is limited to a first-come, first-served basis and online registration at is required.įaculty and graduate students interested in the digital arts and humanities, as well as digital scholarship and teaching, are encouraged to attend these events.
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