The Collection Wall, an immersive interactive image archive, is part of the exhibition »What does this have to do with me?« at Marchivum, the Mannheim City Archive.

Visitors can playfully explore a collection of more than 5,000 individual images, galleries and films from Mannheim’s post-war decades up to the present. The images are arranged according to the themes of democracy, memory and diversity. The four large-format touchscreens in 4K resolution offer visitors an immersive experience. The application uses Particular, a GPU accelerated particle system, which I recently released on GitHub.

The application was developed on behalf of finke.media, the UI design was done in collaboration with Studio S/M/L.

The exhibition aims to convey an understanding that our free democratic basic order cannot be taken for granted, but must always be defended against anti-democratic tendencies by all of us.

Concept/exhibition design: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tatwerk/finke.media, prjktr, Stacey Spiegel

Curators: Karen Strobel, Sebastian Steinert, Stacey Spiegel, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Nieß, Dr. Christian Groh, Dr. Marco Brenneisen

Project management: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Nieß with support by Silvia Köhler

Work:
UI design, frontend development in JavaScript/WebGL/three.js