Digital resources tagged with ‘design’

Australia dials up

Trevor Barr compares the complex and slow access to the Internet in the 1960s to today's high speed broadband service.

Beginnings of the Internet

Trevor Barr provides a brief history of the inception and development of the Internet.

Blogging

Blogging can be used as a means of pursuing a cause.

Broadcasts in cyberspace

Trevor Barr contrasts the privileged access to public television broadcasts with the free information exchange on the Internet. Stephen Mayne celebrates the value of ABC Online as a national resource and describes how activists have used the Internet to successfully broadcast their alternative views.

Building the Bridge

In 2007 Australia celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a giant steel arch resembling a coat hanger that has became one of world's most recognised structures and an engineering triumph.

From Clay Maquette to Bronze

It's the small lively clay studies for the bronze civic monuments Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin and Monument to the Republic by Jules Dalou that bring us closer to the artists themselves.

Hackers

In the 1980s members of an underground hacker community called The Realm hacked into the Internet via a university network.

Matisse & Islam

Islamic art, the Tahitian islands and the circus all provided inspiration for French artist Henri Matisse.

Natalia Goncharova & Alexandra Exter

Natalia Goncharova and Alexandra Exter were both Russian artists but where one moved to Paris and incorporated folk art traditions into her work, the other was drawn back to Bolshevik Russia and embraced the revolutionary art of constructivism.

Online Communities

ALTOS - an online chat community based in Germany - provided a 'world without borders' for its members.

Rebuilding Bougainville

A man from the rugged mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville single-handedly set up a mini power station in his village.

The CSIRAC Computer

The story of the CSIRAC computer. Designed and constructed by the CSIRO, it was the first fully automatic electronic digital computer.

The Digital Divide

Trevor Barr reminds us that more than half of the world's population does not have access to the Internet. Stephen Mayne shares his belief that the digital divide will prevent Internet broadcasts from reaching entire populations in the way that television or radio broadcasts can.

World Internet Project

Trevor Barr links the rise in Internet users with the change in lifestyle practices of television audiences.

World Wide Web

Websites are the new vehicles for advertising.