Matt Cottam - The blurring line between the digital and tangible

IxDA Oslo & AHO is delighted to welcome Matt Cottam, CEO of Tellart to our October meetup!

This summer Tellart launched the Chrome Web Lab in collaboration with Google and The London Science Museum. Matt will share some insights from the project, and how Tellart works in the continuously merging area of digital and tangible interaction.

Web Lab is a groundbreaking, year-long exhibition, featuring a series of interactive Chrome Experiments that bring the extraordinary workings of the internet to life.

Google Creative Lab and Tellart created the concept of the Web Lab–from the user-experience as an integrated online and onsite experience, to its science museum context and audience, to the optical Lab Tag method for collecting artifacts, to the interactions between digital and physical touchpoints which allow in-museum and online audiences to collaborate.

For twelve years, Tellart has been blurring the line between the digital and tangible,building interactive objects and environments that connect to the web. whether its building control systems, museum exhibitions, games for health, consumer electronics, and medical simulations Tellart has done it all.

Since co-founding Tellart in 1999, Matt has become an internationally recognized lecturer at prestigious venues such as Google Tech Talks, the d.school at Stanford University, ETech (O’Reilly Emerging Technologies), Future Technologies Research Summit at Intel, PICNIC, SIGCHI, IDSA/ICSID, Designing User Experience (DUX), Quantified Self, Fab Lab International Conference, IxDA, LIFT, and many more. He has directed projects and strategy for clients such as Google, Nokia Design, Humana Inc., and Otis Elevator.

As usual we will be continuing the debate over some beers and cheers @Oslo Mekaniske after the talk.