Monthly Archives: July 2010

Walk the city streets with the haunting poetry of Public Record: Justin Hopper Brings Old and New Media Together

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via POP CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010

A haunting audio tour of the city’s sobering past is inhabiting the streets this summer. All you need is a cell phone to conjure the activities that took place in the shadows of 19th century Pittsburgh through a unique project called Public Record.

These were the days before plumbing, when Oliver Avenue was better known as Virgin Alley and homeless drunks raged poetic rants in the streets. Freelance writer Justin Hopper has created a multimedia art project woven from the lives of murderers such as William Kelly who stabbed another drunk at the intersection of Fifth and Sixth avenues downtown.

The technological twist is you can listen to the story as you cross the very street where it took place.

“This is a way of haunting the city itself with its own world,” explains Hopper, who also staged a visual component on the show this month on Liberty Avenue as an Old and New Media Artist-in-residence with Deeplocal and Encyclopedia Destructica…..

READ THE FULL STORY AT POP CITY

TECH 50: 2010 Art + Technology Finalists Announced! Check out Pittsburgh’s Top Creative Tech Companies!

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The Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech 50 Awards represent southwestern Pennsylvania’s most successful and innovative technology companies. The awards represent transformative technology centers of excellence with companies at all stages of growth.

The 2010 Tech 50 Art + Technology Finalists are:

Bossa Nova Robotics

DeepLocal

ModCloth, Inc.

Schell Games

The award ceremony will be held on October 14, 2010 at the Pittsburgh Hilton. For more information, click here.

Check out the full Tech 50 Finalist List

The 2010 Technology 50:

Advanced Manufacturing

ATRP Solutions, Inc.

Kurt J. Lesker Company

L&S Machine Company, LLC

US Liner Company

Art + Technology

Bossa Nova Robotics

DeepLocal

ModCloth, Inc.

Schell Games

Green Technology

Epiphany Solar Water Systems

Kennametal Inc.

Pittsburgh Iron Oxides, LLC

Vox Energy Solutions

High Rise

Ansaldo STS USA, Inc.

ANSYS, Inc.

Compunetix, Inc.

McKesson Automation Inc.

Tele-Tracking Technologies, Inc.

Information Technology

Apangea Learning Inc.

Carnegie Speech Company

Confluence

Eyeflow LLC

M*Modal Technologies, Inc.

Management Science Associates, Inc.

Netronome Systems

Seegrid Corporation

Vivisimo, Inc.

Life Sciences

ClearCount Medical Solutions

Cohera Medical, Inc.

Foundation Radiology Group, P.C.

medSage Technologies, LLC

Net Health Systems, Inc.

Neuro Kinetics, Inc.

Precision Therapeutics, Inc.

ThermalTherapeutic Systems, Inc.

ZOLL

Rising Star

Circadiance

Cognition Therapeutics, Inc.

Electric Owl Studios

Metis Secure Solutions, LLC

NeuroInterventions

Regulatory & Quality Solutions LLC

ShowClix Inc.

Songwhale LLC

Service Provider

American International Relocation Solutions LLC (AIReS)

Gist Design, Inc.

Industrial Testing Laboratory Services, LLC

Midnight Blue Technology Services

Newton Consulting, LLC

Sierra w/o Wires, Inc.

Summa Technologies, Inc.

CEO of the Year

John Kealey, Vivisimo, Inc.

Eric Koger, ModCloth

Sean McDonald, Precision Therapeutics, Inc.

Rick Newton, Newton Consulting, LLC

David Palmer, ClearCount Medical Solutions