J. Nathan Matias Creative Portfolio, December 2010
Academic
Philadelphia Fullerine (documentary)
Philadelphia Fullerine (research)
Comparing Spatial Hypertext Collections
Tragedy in Electronic Literature
Ethical Explanations
Operational Media Online
Syntagmatic Browser
Tinderbox Web Viewer
Truth, Trust, and the Textual Camera
Web Art Science Camp London 2010
E-LitCamp Boston 2009
Accordion for the World
The Hacktatus: Wittgenstein Design Project
Academic Integrity Marketing
Literary Choice in Interactive Fiction
Non-Portfolio Academic Work
Business
Emberlight: Visual Notes Online
Scaling for kgb's Super Bowl Television Ad
kgb Multiroom Web Chat Interface
Dr. Johnson: A Rapid Prototyping Framework
Dressipi Sibyl
TouchType
Harbour Coffee Online Sales Interface
Elizabethtown College Admissions
Etown.edu Information Architecture
Texperts and the Knowledge Generation Bureau
Performance Testing & Instrumenting Web Applications
kgb Web Application Interface Integration
Workstation Status Dashboard
Back of the Envelope
Design & Art
Swift-Speare: Statistical Poetry
Stretchtext Authoring System
Recital: Notes from an Itinerant Mind
Exhibit: Abolitionism in Britain
Sculpture: Read for the Sky
Visual Summaries Project
Design: Competetive Debate
Radio Show: Echoes of America
Design: Edward Tufte at Intelligence2
The Normative Decisionmaking Model
Card Storytelling Software
Projects with Tinderbox
Other
Libyan Higher Education Documentary
World University Documentary Prototype
The University Lives Collection
The Ministry of Stories
Timelines for Citizen Case Management
Cambridge Union Society E-Voting Policies
Libyan Higher Education Documentary
2008
higher education in a changing Libya

In March 2008, while I was first developing the World University Project, I was invited, in conjunction with the Cambridge Union Society and Anglia Ruskin University, to assemble a group of students to visit and film in universities in Tripoli, Benghazi, and Al-Beida.

I was responsible for managing our internal affairs: recruiting the team, project managing preparations, and setting the focus of the documentary. I also oversaw post-production. Matthew Jarvis, then Senior Officer of the Cambridge Union Society, coordinated our international negotiations.

Universities visited included:

  • Al-Fateh University, Tripoli
  • Al-Academia graduate school, Tripoli
  • Centre for Green Book Studies, Tripoli
  • Gar Younis University, Benghazi
  • Omar Al-Mukhtar Medical Institute, Al-Beida

Some of the footage has been posted to YouTube. We are currently working together with Anglia Ruskin University to produce some short documentaries from the material taken.

I am deeply grateful to the excellent teamwork of everyone involved.