CollectionWall at Marchivum Mannheim

The Collection Wall, an immersive interactive image archive, is opening today as part of the exhibition »What does this have to do with me?« at Marchivum, the Mannheim City Archive. I developed the application on behalf of finke.media, the UI design was done in collaboration with Studio S/M/L. A big shout out to Margaret Warzecha and Daniel Finke for the great collaboration.

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 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.

Grand opening weekend with free admission, 2 to 4 December, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day

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

›Dinner at the White House‹ at the Kennedy Center

The permanent exhibition ›Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy‹ at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC opens to the public today!

I am thrilled and honoured to have worked with Richard The of TheGreenEyl on an installation that’s part of this exhibition: ›Dinner at the White House‹ – an interactive table, at which visitors are introduced to the historic dinners the Kennedys hosted at the White House. I collaborated on the UI design and developed the backend and frontend software.

The exhibit contains 6 touchscreen plates, through which visitors can simultaneously view the guests who dined with Kennedy in the past and also select contemporary guests they would choose to invite to a dinner at the White House today. Quotes from the invitees appear on the surface of the table suggesting the themes and connections between them.

This permanent exhibition at the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy has been designed by creative director Abbott Miller of Pentagram in collaboration with architects KieranTimberlake, consulting curator Ileen Gallagher and an advisory committee of five leading U.S. historians.

A big shout out to Richard The from TheGreenEyl for commissioning me to collaborate on the UI design of the Interactive table and develop the backend and frontend software. @ardakmukanova@jiangnan_nichole@rozi.525 you were an amazing team to work with. Marian Mentrup thank you for the great sound design and collaboration. Krittika Arvind and Andreas Schmelas, thank you for the professional exchange and support.

If you’re in the area, do check out: ›Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy‹. It’s open to visitors daily from noon to midnight with free admission and no tickets required.

Database of Hopes at Futurium Berlin

The ›Wünschespeicher‹ or ›Database of Hopes‹ is going to open to the public this Thursday, 5h September, from 7pm as part of the permanent exhibition at Futurium Berlin.

The interactive installation featuring four touchscreen terminals and a large scale 4K infinity mirror display allows visitors to enter their wishes about the future. An AI automatically checks for similarities and assigns the wishes to categories.

I took care of the frontend and backend development on behalf of ART+COM, who designed and produced the installation.

Opening:
Futures Festival at Futurium Berlin
5th September 2019
7pm onwards

Interactive map of the UAE part of the exhibition ›Untold Stories Retold‹ in Abu Dhabi

The interactive map ›The Emirati National House‹, which I had developed for the National Pavilion of the UAE at the Venice Biennale 2016, is going to be on display for the first time in the UAE as part of the exhibition ›Untold Stories Retold‹ at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi.

It provides insights 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.

On a 65″ 4K resolution touchscreen multiple visitors can simultaneously zoom in to neighborhoods to examine their qualities and view photographs documenting the unique features of the Sha’abi houses.

Public opening: Wednesday, 7 March, 6 pm

Exhibition: 07 March 2018 – 24 June 2018

Further information:

https://www.facebook.com/NationalPavilionUAE/posts/2040629525955076?pnref=story

https://www.warehouse421.ae/en/exhibitions/

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

OSRAM Reactive Sparks

osram_reactive_sparksI just created a new display for OSRAM Seven Screens in Munich on behalf of ART+COM, Berlin. OSRAM Seven Screens is an installation of seven double-sided vertical screens in front of the OSRAM main office in Munich, next to the highway “Mittlerer Ring”, one of the most congested roads in Munich and Germany.

For the display Reactive Sparks, the traffic on the street is tracked in real-time; each car creates a spark which moves across the screens. The Waves in the lower part of the display represent the amount of traffic in the past few minutes. More traffic results in higher waves with faster movement. The installation conveys the idea of energy and movement and translates it into a visual representation. The warm colours create a warm spot in the gray winter landscape. The display will run until April 2008.

I designed the display in collaboration with ART+COM and realized the programming in Java and OpenGL.

» Reactive Sparks documentation