Nominated for the "WebSage" Streamers Award. Streamers Awards are for excellence in streaming media, presented by RealNetworks. They go to organizations who make innovative use of RealAudio and RealVideo in their websites. The "WebSage" Streamers award goes to the best educational use of RealMedia.
Welcome. Memory Palace is an audio-visual documentary web site committed to questioning conventional assumptions about art and culture. Instead of the standard text and graphics look of most sites on the web, Memory Palace uses RealMedia server software to stream sounds, images and movies in real time over the web. Included in the present documentary are original audio interviews with Raymond Williams, Susan Crean, Pete Seeger, Ron Grimes, Joel Kovel, Dee Dee Halleck, originator of Paper Tiger TV, composer R. Murray Schafer, the founders of Welfare State International, John Fox and Sue Gill, and many others, as well as excerpts from David Cayley's CBC interview with Ivan Illich. Also included are dozens of photographs and graphics exploring the history and mythology of culture. In order to visit Memory Palace, you will need the RealPlayer plug in, available free from Real Networks. Simple directions for installation can be found on the Technical Page Because we make extensive use of streaming audio
and video, you will also need a fairly fast computer - either a Pentium or a
PowerPC Mac - and one of the more recent browser versions - Netscape 3.0+ or Explorer 4.0. If you are a Mac user, pay special attention to the instructions on the Technical Page, otherwise your browser may crash when accessing our site. If your hardware does not meet these technical requirements, visit our Text Only Page for a description of the site.
First time visitors should start by entering through the front door.
Return visitors can use the Site Map, visit the Forum, or go straight
to the Weekly Feature.
All viewers can contribute to Memory Palace by posting to the Forum or sending a submission by phone or mail.
If you have any problems getting Memory Palace to work, read through the Technical Page and, if that doesn't solve it, email me at mackeyc@post.queensu.ca.
The Sunsite Server is donated by Sun Microsystems of Canada and is housed at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.
Memory Palace was created, written and designed by Clarke Mackey. Peter Cassidy was co-creator, audio-video editor and programmer. Darcy Montgomery assisted us in just about everything. See Credits.
We hope you enjoy your visit.
Clarke MackeyFilm Studies, Queen's University, Canada
Copyright Statement:
As this site is non-profit-making, and produced for educational use, it is intended that persons visiting the site do so for personal reasons only. It is requested that visitors do not save any of the information, audio or images from this site for commercial use. Although this site makes use of material protected by copyright, no infringements of any copyrights or trademarks are intended.It is the intention that the use of images, audio and information contained on this site should be viewed for research and education only. As a result of people visiting this site, no financial loss is intended to any of the copyright holders. In making these statements of request and intent it is argued that this site should therefore be protected under the 'fair use' provisions of copyright law.
