Kurt Weill Cosmos

The interactive visual archive ›Kurt Weill Cosmos‹ openend to the public yesterday as part of the new permanent exhibition at the Kurt Weill Centre in Dessau, located in the Bauhaus Masters’ House of Feininger/Moholy-Nagy.

Visitors can explore the interrelations of people, places and works and discover unexpected connections and relationships while listening to referenced tracks on the audio guide. Slideshows of record covers, stage design and photos provide further insights into the life of Kurt Weill.

Coding: Markus Lerner
UI design: Kilian Krug and Markus Lerner
Exhibition design: Plural Severin Wucher and Frank Übler
Curation: Prof. Dr. Andreas Eichhorn
Media planning: asignum Sven Schneider
Construction/carpentry: neubauen.design Anne Schulz, Sebastian Bockrandt
Director of Kurt Weill Centre: Joachim Landgraf
Building/architecture: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau / Bruno Fioretti Marquez, 2010-2014

Generative LED wall display for Mann+Hummel

A custom control software was developed for a 17 x 5 m LED wall, which is the central element of the new corporate museum of filter manufacturer Mann+Hummel in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

The application facilitates the display of generative animations, bar and line charts as well as a world map, which highlights the global locations of the company. It features an intuitive timeline editor for the design and arrangement of the content. Besides the DMX output for the LED display, the software also controls the sound and the neon lights.

The animations were designed in collaboration with TheGreenEyl, Berlin.

Interactive Map of the UAE at Venice Biennale

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A high-resolution interactive multitouch map was developed for the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 15th international architecture exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.

It provides insight into the geography and landscape of the UAE, as well as the diversity in typology of the Emirati National House, also know as the Sha’abi (folk) housing model, applied across the Emirates.

The exhibition is open to the public from May 28 until November 27, 2016.

Further information:
Project documentation
nationalpavilionuae.org
labiennale.org

Travelscope got selected as a Webby Awards Official Honoree

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Travelscope just got selected as an Official Honoree at The 20th Annual Webby Awards in the Web: NetArt category.

Among the 13,000 entries received this year from 65 countries, the Official Honoree distinction is awarded to the top 20% of all work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement.

Travelscope visualises the travel freedom attached to passports and the complex visa regulations across the globe.

Online application:
https://www.markuslerner.com/travelscope/

Interactive table at Hersbruck/Happurg documentation site

The Hersbruck/Happurg documentation site records the history of the second largest satellite camp of the Floss­en­bürg concentration camp. It consists of two modules: one in Hersbruck, the former camp, and another one in Happurg, the former place of forced labor.

The Hersbruck module features a panoramic video of the surroundings of Hersbruck and a large multitouch table. It displays the names of all the 9,000 known prisoners from all over Europe who were held captive there between July 1944 and April 1945. 90 representative biographies featuring stories, animated quotes and images can be explored. The interactive display was designed and programmed by Markus Lerner in collaboration with Bertron Schwarz Frey, Berlin/Ulm, who created the exhibition architecture for the documentation site.

The documentation site Hersbruck/Happurg is opening to the public on Monday, 25th January.

Further information:
Project documentation
Press Release by the Bavarian State Parliament
Announcement by the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial

Locations:
Hersbruck module: Badstr. 145, 91217 Hersbruck
Happurg module: Südring/An der Hunnenschlucht, 91230 Happurg

Multi-screen installation ‘Wortarbeit’ at Grimmwelt Kassel

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The new Grimmwelt Kassel shows the faceted œvre of the Brothers Grimm and unfolds the impact of their work until today and in the future.

In collaboration with TheGreenEyl, Markus Lerner developed and interactive installation called “Wortarbeit”. In reference to the famous German Dictionary (1838–1854/1961) by the Brothers Grimm the installation attempts to capture the visitors’ associations with words. Within a predefined set of formulas (word connections), one word has to be explained by another word entered by the visitor. The results is a chain that grows endlessly word by word, which can be explored in multiple ways.

The Grimmwelt Kassel is open to the public from 5h September 2015.

Markuslerner.com website relaunch

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I finally relaunched my interaction design portfolio website: markuslerner.com

It starts off with a minimalistic responsive fullscreen slideshow. Detailed information about each project can be accessed via the plus button. The Menu disappears after an idle timeout in order to keep the look clean and simple.

The programming is based on the amazing Touchfolio wordpress theme by Dmitry Semenov and is powered by WordPress, jQuery, ModernizrExCanvastween.jsRoyalSliderGoogle Webfonts (Raleway), Fontello.

A big thank you to all my clients and collaborators for making these projects possible.