March 16, 2010

Resonance in the NY Times

Article on Salman Rushdie features firm's interface design

A New York Times article on author Salman Rushdie’s works on display at Emory University includes a computer interface design by Resonance Marketing.

The interface enables scholars and visitors to Emory’s library to access files on one of Rushdie’s original computers, which he used from 1996 to mid-2000. They can also review files exactly as Rushdie saw them in an “emulated” environment, or exact replica of Rushdie’s own computer.

The March 15, 2010 Times article, which focuses on Rushdie’s collection and the challenges of digital preservation, includes a video on how Emory’s tech experts retrieved, catalogued and served up Rushdie’s writings, emails and other files. The opening screen of the video shows the computer interface design by Resonance principal Kathleen Turaski.

The Rushdie interface design is one of a half-dozen interactive projects for which Resonance has provided Emory with architecture and design.

Emory’s magazine also covered the Rushdie project (read the article). The university hopes to someday incorporate works from Rushdie’s other computers into the collection. Rushdie, one of the most celebrated novelists of modern times, is a writer-in-residence at Emory.

Visit “A World Mapped by Stories: The Salman Rushdie Archive,” an exhibition of Rushdie’s works open until September 26, 2010. Place: Schatten Gallery, 3rd Floor, Robert W. Woodruff Library, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322. Open to the public at no charge. More >