17th and 18th century maps from the State Library of NSW&#8217;s collection brought to life as interactive 3D globes.

Meridian

Interactive data visualisation drawing from The Library&#8217;s Indigenous language collections.

Muru View

Young Sydney is a transport mapping experiment comparing 1877 to today.

Young Sydney

The DX Lab in partnership with Macquarie Group opened a digital experience in the foyer of the Macquarie Group banking chamber.

New digital experience

Q and A with Carlos Arroyo, developer of Painting by Numbers.

Behind the Code

A digital experiment featuring nearly 300 original works by botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer.

Painting by Numbers

The winner of the Young Creative Technologist Award is Vignesh Sankaran for his facial recognition project.

Young CT winner

The DX Lab is thrilled to announce that Thomas Wing-Evans is the 2017 DX Lab Fellowship winner with his proposal 80Hz.

Fellowship winner

Something strange is in our foyer.  It&#8217;s a vending machine full of printed Library collection items!

Vending Library

Making Meridian

We are excited to announce that we are collaborating with awe to put on two events during the Spark Festival in October. If you are interested in hearing more about AR,VR, MR (Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality) and wearables then you might want to attend one or both of these events. The Spark Festival is a thirteen day program of events and activities which showcases, supports and strengthens the vibrant startup and innovation ecosystem that exists in Sydney, and across all of

AR,VR+MR events

Young Creative Technologist Award The State Library of NSW’s DX Lab announces a unique opportunity for a young creative technologist to undertake an innovative project of their choice. The Young Creative Technologist Award, proudly supported by Macquarie Group, gives a young person aged 18-25 the opportunity to create an innovative digital experience utilising some of the Library’s seven million digitised images. The winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize. We are looking for a young 18-25 year old developer/creative who

Young CT Award

We are excited to announce that Kaho Cheung is joining the DX Lab team as the DX Lab Developer. Kaho Cheung is a full stack developer with a particular interest in data and interaction design. For the past 4 years, Kaho has been a Senior Digital Developer at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) in Sydney. Most recently, Kaho helped deliver MAAS’s new collection website and public API. After studying industrial design, Kaho has moved from print, web design

DX Lab News

The DX Lab is excited to announce the DX Lab fellowship for the second time. This digital fellowship has been specifically set up to support the creative and innovative use of the Library&#8217;s collection data. It promotes innovation, partnerships, experimentation and creativity using the Library’s data via new interfaces and experiences. This is a unique opportunity for researchers in the digital humanities particularly within the Gallery, Library, Museum and Archive sector (GLAM). The fellowship is being offered at $30,000 to enable research and digital innovation. &#8216;The opportunity to offer the

DX Lab Fellowship #2

Muru View: Visualising Aboriginal place and meaning. NGARA YAR-RE GNA Hear, Say, See To celebrate NAIDOC week this year, with it&#8217;s theme of &#8216;The importance, resilience and richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages&#8217;, the DX Lab has partnered with the Library&#8217;s Indigenous Services team and creative studio Sandpit to produce our latest experiment Muru View. This work follows on from our previous experiment Weemala that uses Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia regarding Aboriginal place

Wynscreen is a new large-scale installation screen located at Wynyard Station near the York Street entrance. Transport NSW are committed it being used by artists and not for advertising. The screen is over 20 metres long and slightly curved at the edges, showing art, culture and technology in a visually rich way to around 30,000 train passengers every day . The DX Lab and Research and Discovery branch at the State Library of NSW have collaborated with Sarah Kenderdine and

The State Library of NSW'sExperimentalInnovation Lab

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