Matt Cottam – The blurring line between the digital and tangible

Together with AHO, we welcomed Matt Cottam, CEO of Tellart, to the October meetup at NITH. Cottam co-founded Tellart in 1999, and the studio's work spanned control systems, museum exhibits, health games, consumer electronics and medical simulations.

The talk centred on Chrome Web Lab, a year-long exhibition of interactive Chrome Experiments showing how the internet works, launched that summer by Google and Tellart at the Science Museum in London. Cottam described a concept that combined online and onsite experiences in a museum setting, including a physical "Lab Tag" that visitors used to collect what they made.

He also explained how Tellart approached the merging of digital and physical interaction. The discussion continued afterwards at Oslo Mekaniske.

Speakers

• Matt Cottam, CEO and co-founder, Tellart — The blurring line between the digital and tangible

The original event page is on meetup.com.