Cyberzone

Digital Workshop

You're a multimedia star

Combine graphics, audio and animation to create a personal multimedia presentation with you as the star.

Digital details

Explore the concept of resolution. Use your hand to make an imprint in low, medium and high resolution.

Being digital

Explore the process of converting text, images and sound information into digital data. See yourself in binary code.

One code fits all

Learn how one computer can understand what is produced on another computer through the use of binary code and software. Understand the need for standards - in this case ASCII; the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Can you think in binary?

See how humans think in decimal and computers 'think' in binary.

Guess the face

Identify the famous faces at different resolutions, learn how information is stored in computers.

Cyber space

Centuries of cyberspace

A cartoon-style presentation to show the 6000 year history of human communication networks and illustrate the concept of cyberspace as a network based on digital communication.

Learner's Internet

A sample of what the internet can offer. This exhibit also examines social concerns such as human rights, privacy, censorship and pornography.

Internet area

Explore more of Cyberspace.

Are computers intelligent?

Have a conversation with a computer. Decide for yourself if computers can be intelligent.

Data matching

See who has access to information about you as you carry out everyday activities.

Crack the code

Crack the encrypted code. Realise the need for privacy and security for digital information.

Data Demos

Virtual environments

Scientists can use mathematical models to assess the impact of change. In this case, the impact of forestry on owl populations.

Digital detective

Use virtual reality to recreate a scene and solve one of the crimes.

Put your body in

Experience virtual reality using blue screen technology. Movie special effects in practice.

Soccer game

Shark bait