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