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An artistic "soundwalk" for Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. It consists of eight audio recordings that are designed to be listened to on-site through a mobile device. Each recording includes some basic verbal directions, plus wordless singing…

A crowdsourced online database of graves in Canada. Users upload details about each grave including its location, basic biographical details of the deceased, a transcription of the headstone and photographs of the gravesite.

A sound system designed to play music inside a buried coffin. Speakers embedded in the coffin lid (underground) connect to a computer server embedded in the gravestone (above ground), which displays the song that is currently playing on a small…

A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided audio tour of the Common Cemetery (Almen Kirkegård) in Aalborg, Denmark. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS, plus walking directions to a series of points of…

A service that creates ground-level explorable virtual recreations of the cemetery using 360 degree photography (otherwise known as VR photography). Also provides sales, marketing and management software services.

A Sydney-based videography service that produces live and recorded webcasts of funeral services.

Cemetery management software that provides visitors with an explorable orthophotographic map of the cemetery with a grave search function.

A mobile app that provides a searchable directory of war graves for servicemen and women who died in World War I and World War II. The app is provided by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, an intergovernmental organisation that is responsible…

A prototype system for facilitating self-guided tours of a cemetery. The system is composed of two parts. The first part is a "book-like device" that the visitor carries with them as they walk around the cemetery. The second part is a network of…

An early attempt to create an experience of "talking" to a deceased person at their gravesite, developed in the mid-1970s. The solar-powered interactive tombstone included an analogue speaker system and, later, a video display, which played…