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Nanotoxikologie

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: DASA
NOVEMBER 2010

An interactive application of the topic of nanotoxicology was developed by 235 MEDIA for the DASA in Dortmund, in cooperation with experts from the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The topic of nanotechnology and its potential risks is much talked and written about but only very few facts are known. The touch screen application offers a short playful introduction into the nano-cosmos and offers the visitor an overview into the potential of the nanotechnology as well as into the current state of the research into its risks. The protection-at-work aspect is in the foreground here. The application can be found in the section “hazardous materials” in the permanent exhibition.

Erlebnisexponat Röntgenbus

Posted by Lina Heuschen

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

Posted by Lina Heuschen

Client: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

October 2010

The exhibition “Humans in their Domain” at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne takes the visitor to an astounding and educational journey. Comparing different cultures, the innovative exhibition is spread out across 3600 square metres of exhibition space on three levels. A multitude of media installations provide information in a neoteric way without dominating the overall production.

235 MEDIA developed and implemented all media stations and built the entire media technology and navigation at the exhibition. A total of 30 projectors, more than 40 monitors and 14 audio stations have been installed. Our “Electronic Book” in the “Meet the World” segment and the interactive table in the “Humans in Society – European Saloon” segment are regarded as the technical highlights of the exhibition.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with ATELIER BRÜCKNER

RWE

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: RWE

OKTOBER 2010

The Coal Innovation Centre at Niederaussem is now accessible to visitors. At interactive exhibits, visitors can see for citizens and provide detailed information about the technology and features the work force, and discover there are such new technologies to improve energy production and consumption tested.

An avatar greets guests and draws attention to the many ways of the exhibition. The core of the Information Centre is a real model of the power plant complex – here is the complex world of power generation interactive experience.

The navigation through the topics lignite, CO2, and future technologies via plastic knob. On the opposite side, visitors can use an intuitive touch interface virtual select information that will be highlighted to the power plant model. Thus, the power plant processes and interactive spatial experience.

Cross-company issues such as renewable energy or global CSR projects are also available on a 65 “multi-touch screen.

RUHR.2010

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: RUHR.2010 GmbH
SEPTEMBER 2010

On the occasion of the region’s year as the European Capital of Culture, a number of new visitor information centres were opened in Dortmund, Duisburg, Oberhausen and Bochum. In all four locations, a 2m x 2m interactive table serves as the central information system, providing an attractive overview of the diverse possibilities offered by the cities of the Ruhr Valley.

In the centre of the table is an aerial perspective of the Ruhr region, overlaid with graphic elements that provide basic information, such as the names of towns, major roads and rivers. Along the edges of the table – to the “North” and “South” – are workstations, at which six visitors at a time can discover the cities of the region. Images, videos and text are used to present major sights and events, while, for the purposes of orientation, a magnifying glass moves over the landscape, highlighting each location on the central map. The introductory animation simulates day turning into night and presents special events from the region. Over 200 pieces of content can be accessed via the interactive table. They are managed via a specially developed CMS and automatically updated each day for all four tables. At each one, two full HD projectors beam a presentation in full HD resolution.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with RUHR.2010 GmbH und Stadt Dortmund/Stadt Bochum/Stadt Oberhausen

Mies van der Rohe Award

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: MA:I, MUSEUM FÜR ARCHITEKTUR UND INGENIEURSKUNST NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN
MARCH- APRIL 2010

The Mies von der Rohe Award – the prize for contemporary architecture – is considered among the most renowned architecture prizes.

The Award’s exhibition travelled through Europe and, on its only stop in Germany, could be seen at the Kokerei Zollverein from 21st March to 20th April. 235 MEDIA carried out the scenographic realisation of the exhibition. The lighting concept in particular was specifically developed for the unusual architecture.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with M:AI, Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Fischer Lichtgestaltung

Schwarzer Diamant

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: DEUTSCHES BERGBAUMUSEUM
December 2009

The German Mining Museum in Bochum has opened an extension, entitled “Black Diamond”, and a special exhibit called “Good luck! The Ruhr Valley – Coal Mining since 1945”. For this exhibit, 235 MEDIA created 21 multimedia terminals and a room installation.

Thanks to 21 integrated touchscreens and freestanding terminals, visitors can experience the changing history of coal mining in the Ruhr Valley after the Second World War. Films, photographs and documents illustrate the everyday lives of miners in the 1950s, while TV adverts from the 1960s and stories from over 100 mines provide a diverse and vivid insight into the Ruhr mining industry from the post-war period until today.

Through an interactive multimedia room installation, visitors can also learn how extremely technical coal mining is, and about the powerful and complex machines that are used. They can navigate a 5m wide HD projection, using the console from an original coal mine control room. This brings to life the highly specialised use of technology in tunnelling, extraction and transport in an interactive way.

235 MEDIA auf der EXPONATEC 2009

Posted by Lina Heuschen

EXPONATEC
NOVEMBER 2009

EXPONATEC 2009 has closed its doors and we can look back on a successful exhibition period. For the third time 235 MEDIA presented scenographic concepts, interactive special solutions and multimedia exhibits.
After many interesting discussions we look forward to new and exciting projects in the near future.

RadarTouch

The Radar Touch sensor technology makes possible a completely new intuitive interaction in space. The Radar Touch field can be installed either as an invisible fan in front of a wall or also horizontally in the room.

Interactive Table

The interactive table developed by 235 MEDIA ®evolution is the ideal presentation medium for conveying complex interrelations to a large group of visitors.

MultiTouch-Backprotable

In addition to the proven interactive table with front projection, 235 MEDIA also offers a multi-touch table. The integrated rear-projection offers a high presentation quality, even in difficult ambient lighting.

MultimediaGuide transGo

transGo opens up completely new possibilities in the impartment of information at exhibitions, on tours or when sightseeing. Visitors receive all relevant information as soon as they approach the objects – in their language, at their level of knowledge and through various media.

Scenography – Exhibition Design

235 MEDIA develops and implements exhibition concepts plus individual configuration and presentation concepts. We combine technical know-how and creative interior design with sensitive handling of the exhibits to produce appropriate exhibition solutions. From the conception, via graphic implementation, software, media technology and exhibit construction, then on to service and maintenance – unconventional in thought, professional in the realisation and optimised in the calculation. Everything from one source.

Reformation und Ruhrgebiet

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Martin Luther Forum Ruhr

OCTOBER 2009

The newly opened Martin Luther Forum Ruhr in Gladbeck sheds light on the unique characteristics of the Reformation in the Ruhr Valley. For this permanent exhibition, 235 MEDIA created an interactive table, two internet terminals and a number of audio and video stations.

At the interactive table, visitors can leaf through a virtual book and learn about the history of the Reformation in the Ruhr Valley from 1517 to the present day. With the help of maps, images, videos and an audio commentary, visitors can immerse themselves in the fascinating development of Protestantism. “Speaking” portraits turn images into active sound sources. Nine photographs of people from different countries can be activated, which play back a biblical quote read out in their respective language. The acoustic playback occurs without any additional loudspeakers – the words come out of the pictures themselves, as if the portraits are speaking to the visitor.

PARTNERS:

Exhibition Design Gerhard Herr

Ausstellungsraum Biometrie

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: ODYSSEUM

2009

The Science Adventure Odysseum opened in early April in Cologne and offers insights into various fields of science.

There, 235 MEDIA made the exhibition room Biometry a reality, in which information about the compilation and handling of biometric data is imparted. Visitors operate the devices, which are normally employed in security-relevant areas, by themselves, supported by animations and speech. In this way they lose their fear of touching the highly complex technology. Using their own fingerprint as an access code, they can decipher their own individual biometric characteristics on the finger, iris and facial scanners, which are then presented on 40 inch TFT screens and as a print-out.

Database Server / Identification System

This complex installation is controlled from a database programmed by 235 MEDIA. The temporary visitor IDs generated by the database enable verification at the individual stations and the correct assignment of scan results. All scanning processes are integrated into a graphical overall concept, which contains animation and voice guidance and permits visitors an intuitive usage.

Station 1 : Scan of the fingers

Upon entering the room, visitors are invited to carry out a scan of the fingers. The fingerscan is presented on a screen, graphically processed. Visitors are then directed to the next station.

Station 2 :3-D Scan of the face

After activation by the fingerprint, visitors place themselves in the scan position that is right for them. To guarantee the best scanning results, the facial scanner is vertically adjustable. The completed 3D scan is displayed immediately in the graphics menu.

Station 3 : Scan of the Iris

Analog to the previous station, the scanning process takes place for the iris. At this station the interaction between the visitor and the device is particularly complex. The graphical and aural user guidance enables the best possible result.

Station 4 : Complete edition

At the complete edition station visitors receive, after verification, an overview of the scan operations carried out on them. This data is saved for two hours and then automatically erased.

Station 5 : Print-out in the shop area

Within these two hours visitors can acquire a high-quality print-out of their biometric scans at the exit of the Odysseum. Also here, verification is carried out on a finger scanner. On the back of the print-out further explanations of the various scanning processes are given and general information on the topic of biometrics.

PARTNERS:

In cooperation with Uniplan

Studio Azzurro – Der Schwimmer

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: NRW-FORUM DÜSSELDORF

2009

The installation “The Swimmer, Il Nuotatore (va troppo spesso ad Heidelberg)” by Studio Azzuro is considered to be one of the classics of international media art.

For the “Long Night of the Museums” the installation was implemented by 235 MEDIA on the facade of the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, as a 50meters long and 4meters high projection. The video projection consisted of twelve screens installed in front of the windows of the NRW Forum.

In 2006 the work was lavishly restored by imai, inter media art institute, in a collaboration with 235 MEDIA.

Kaiser, Senat & Volk

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: ARCHÄOLOGISCHER PARK XANTEN

SEPTEMBER 2009

Installed in the Archeological Park Xanten is the new exhibition area, “Emperor, Senate and People”. For this, 235 MEDIA designed an interactive table, diverse listening stations in German, Dutch and English, as well as a large-format projection illustrating the governance of the Roman Empire.

The interactive table, designed in an elliptical shape, has a diameter of 2.30 m and can be used by several people simultaneously. Information can be retrieved about typical characters from all classes of the Roman population. The graphical background ambiently shows their ancient world, the landscape and buildings in a dynamic, ever-changing day/night cycle.

PARTNERS:

In cooperation with Bildwerk, Dortmund

100 Jahre Jugendherbergen

Posted by Lina Heuschen

Client: Das Deutsche Jugendherbergswerk
AUGUST 2009

In 2009 the German Youth Hostel Association will celebrate “100 years of Youth Hostels” with a special exhibition at the Burg Altena.

The central attraction will be the interactive table realized by 235 MEDIA. Through this, visitors have access to comprehensive information about 100 years of inspired history. The intuitive navigation guides visitors through several time segments with images, texts, audio commentaries and 30 short films about key events and people. An interactive map of the world invites visitors to discover the international network of youth hostels. By means of a simple language selection function all of the content is also available in English. A custom designed Internet terminal also offers current information and booking options.

The application is additionally obtainable as an interactive DVD-ROM for members of the DJH.

Catwalks

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: NRW-FORUM FOR CULTURE AND ECONOMICS
JULY 2009

From the 27th July to the 1st November the exhibition “Catwalks – the most spectacular fashion shows of top designers” was shown in the NRW-Forum Culture and Economy in Düsseldorf.

The exhibition was transmitted nearly exclusively via video projections, whereby the room itself or a part of the room is used as screens. The emerging scenography was realised with the help of more than 80 video projectors. In order to give the visitors the feeling to be main actors in the theatrical play of the fashion designers elaborate room projections were created where up to 12 projections are installed in individual rooms. You walk on the catwalk and find yourself in the large fashion shows, which are animated with the help of video clips and multimedia installations. Thus the visitor himself becomes a model on the catwalk.235 MEDIA completely took over the media-technological realisation and the technical supervision during the exhibition.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Überraum, Paris

Architektur der 60er und 70er Jahre in NRW

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: M:AI – Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurskunst in NRW
APRIL 2009

For the the traveling exhibition “Architecture of the 60`s and 70`s in NRW”, the M:AI – Museum for Architecture and Engineering Art in North Rhine-Westphalia announced a public competition in April 2009 for the exhibition conception.

The scenographic concept submitted by 235Media and NowakTeufelKnyrim attained the second place.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with NowakTeufelKnyrim

Medienstationen im Wiedenbrücker Schule Museum

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: WIEDENBRÜCKER SCHULE MUSEUM
NOVEMBER 2008

On the 28th of November the Wiedenbrücker Schule Museum opened, which is dedicated to the outstanding sacred and profane craft products of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In four different multi-media stations 235 MEDIA presents the most important works of art that were created in Wiedenbrück and distributed throughout Germany. An interactive table takes visitors back to the beginning of the exhibition, to the heyday of the workshops, and a large-format projection onto a triptych shows in detail the magnificent furnishings of the Church of St. Ida, the Wiedenbrücker emblem.

The distribution of the craft products remote from East Westfalia – with pictures and documents from Berlin to Bochum – is illustrated in the media stations as are the strong structural changes the churches were subject to during this period.

Dornbracht

Posted by Lina Heuschen

Customer: Meiré GmbH & Co. KG
2008

235 MEDIA created the SoundSpa for the company Dornbracht. As well as building the exhibition inside the Cologne factory of Meiré GmbH during the 2008 Passages, 235 MEDIA also set it up in Milan for the supporting events at the Salon du Mobile.

The presentation took place inside a specially developed SoundSpa, conceived and designed by Mike Meiré. Thanks to music from Mike Meiré and Carlo Peters, as well as animated images by Jens-Oliver Gasde, this piece of ritual architecture made for a unique experience. Through the interplay between the ceiling projection and the sound installation, various acoustic worlds came into being.

235 MEDIA implemented the building of the cubes, delivered and installed the media technology and oversaw the construction and dismantling.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Meiré GmbH & Co. KG

Projektion Ruhr

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: M:AI – MUSEUM FÜR ARCHITEKTUR UND INGENIEURSKUNST NRW
NOVEMBER 2008

“Projection Ruhr” was opened on 18.11. in the “Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine” in Paris and could be seen until 8 February 09.

In a cooperation with the light artist Mischa Kuball and on behalf of the M:AI – Museum of Architecture and Engineering Art NRW, 235 MEDIA produced this exhibition dealing with the structure changes in the Ruhr conurbation since the IBA Emscher Park.

12 mobile video projectors (VMS and Beamover) project and move photos, texts and video clips exclusively onto the bottom of a 50meters x 7meters dimensioned slightly curved space. Three projectors then form a choreographic unit for each of one of the four major issues: industrial culture, industrial nature, art and architecture. This creates a steady flow of images to a sound collage by Thomas Small (Kreidler), which through higher-level themes such as “Aerial photographs”, “People” etc. receives a dramatical retainer. For the visitor the installation opens up the view onto the process of transformation in the Ruhr conurbation, offering ambient and emotional access to the topic.

Römerthermen Zülpich

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: FÖRDERSTIFTUNG RÖMERTHERMEN ZÜLPICH
AUGUST 2008

All of the media technology for this complex new museum built around the Roman thermal baths in Zülpich was planned and executed by 235 MEDIA. It also includes other multimedia displays:

– three projections in the ancient thermal baths

– an AV media station on “Bathing Worlds” which involved the design of an interface as well as the production of 4 films:

“100 Years of Bathing Holidays”, “Bathing Culture in Film”, “Setting the Scene for Bathing”, and “Water Sports”

– an AV media station on “Racial Hygiene – The Perversion of an Idea”, which included media production

– the production of a film on the use a washbasin in the eighteenth century, which included filming and post-production

– the implementation of three other media stations and a wall projection

Kahler Asten − das Dach Westfalens

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: LWL-Museum für Naturkunde
October 2008

In October 2008, the LWL-Museum of Natural History opened a newly designed visitor center on the Kahlen Asten. The interactive table implemented by 235 MEDIA ® evolution is the central media station, and it offers tourists and interested residents of the region maps, pictures and texts on a variety of recreational activities around the Kahlen Asten.

Assigned to the four main themes, the large-format interface displays various animated maps of the natural park region: splendid walks on the Rothaarsteig and in the Rothaarsteig natural reserve, with additionally the heathland natural trail and the winter sport opportunities. The map material covers the entire console space and is holohedral relocatable. It offers further contentual reinforcement levels as well as the possibility to enlarge and diminish map segments. In addition, a memory game and a quiz provide for fun and entertainment.

Zur Deutschen Sozialgeschichte

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR ARBEIT UND SOZIALES
AUGUST 2008

On 23 August 2008 the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs opened a permanent exhibition on the emergence of German social history.

235 MEDIA ®evolution not only planned and implemented all of the media technology, but also designed an interactive table. The interactive table provides visitors with an opportunity to playfully explore the world in which people in Germany lived around 1900. The visitor can “page” through portraits of social classes, professions and places that played a role in life of those times as if in a photo album, thereby intuitively gaining access to these topics through pictures, films and texts. The interactive table makes it possible to acquire insight into to the atmosphere of everyday working life and to approach the lives of the people in a personal manner.

In addition to the interactive table, 235 MEDIA also created the following multimedia displays:

– an interactive stairway installation with projections of various historical vehicles

– two interactive AV media stations

– an interactive audio station with 12 audio portraits

PARTNERS:

In cooperation with Hansen Kommunikation

Südsauerlandmuseum

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Südsauerlandmuseum
June 2008

The Südsauerlandmuseum – Museum for Art and Cultural History in Attendorn – was re-opened on 22.06.2008. For a presentation of the historic town centre, 235 MEDIA brought into being a detailed and accurate town model with the dimensions of 1.10 m x 1.10 m as an interactive installation. With the help of an external touch screen, individual buildings and sites ould be selected and then, by means of a computer-controlled spotlight on the town model, illuminated.

Additionally, 235 MEDIA implemented two further media stations which made historic maps digitally accessible. Maps of Attendorn from different eras can now be studied and compared through the use of a digital zoom function.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Bildwerk, Dortmund

Am Bildschirm

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: DASA
January 2008

235 MEDIA conceived and realised an interactive room installation for the German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition, DASA.

The occupational world is in a state of flux, work increasingly takes place in virtual spaces, and the mutual penetration of virtual and real spaces is embracing work and living areas ever more. The permanent exhibition “Work on the screen” occupies itself with this phenomenon and, with this new interactive installation, offers visitors encounters with and integration into virtual space right from the entrance.

Every visitor is recorded by means of camera tracking and depicted in the virtual realm by an avatar on the projection screen. Through their movements visitors control the form of the virtual space and can additionally, via an interface, select one of eight feature films dealing with the theme:

-Evolution of the screen
-Virtuality & Reality
-Macrocosm
-Planning & Constructing
-Training & Learning
-Microcosm
-Medicine & Health
-Networked Worlds

These feature films, with complex animations and associatively linked archive images from the fields of research, application and fiction, were also produced by 235 MEDIA.

235 MEDIA auf der EXPONATEC 2007

Posted by Lina Heuschen

OCTOBER 2007

Between 31st October and 3rd November 2007, experts came together at the EXPONATEC 2007, the international trade show for museums, preservation and cultural heritage.

235 MEDIA represented itself at the event with a wide range of solutions for conveying information through multimedia. The exhibits invited visitors to try the products, from the 6m x 2m InfoSlider and the time-tested interactive table to the newly developed TDS – the Transparent Data System.

Gary Hill

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Fondation Cartier
SEPTEMBER 2007

Exploding the walls that divide the media, Gary Hill digs into questions of perception and meaning in complex and challenging ways that always place the viewer inside an undeniable situation of presence and physicality. Making use of an array of elements and layered meaning, he has created two new large-scale works for his solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Gary Hill puts the notion of value into perspective—its significance, its ambiguity, the value of art as well as of money—through works that question our systems of thought and our symbolic construction of the world.

On the real gold bar in the center of the oil lake it is written: “For everything which is visible is a copy of that which is hidden”

PARTNERS:
imai – inter media art institute
Fondation Cartier, Paris

Gary Hill

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: NRW-FORUM, DÜSSELDORF
SEPTEMBER 2007

In Düsseldorf the latest works by the American media artist Gary Hill were presented over approximately 1,200 sqm. 235 MEDIA took on the overall technical design and implementation. The exhibition displayed five large-format installations and an extensive video programme. At the core of the exhibition were Gary Hills new productions, “Frustrum” and “Guilt”. Both installations are co-productions of the Stiftung imai – inter media art institute, Düsseldorf, and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, and they were seen for the first time in Germany. In addition, the installations “In Situ” (1986/2007) and “Glass Onion” (1983/2007) were restored for the exhibition.

PARTNERS:
imai – inter media art institute
Fondation Cartier, Paris
NRW-Forum

Krupp

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CUSTOMER: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
JANUARY 2007

235 MEDIA executed the media installations at the Krupp Historical Exhibition in the Villa Hügel, Essen. Integrated into the newly designed exhibition dealing with the history of the Krupp company in the 19th and 20th centuries were seven multimedia installations.

The mostly interactive media stations offer the visitor a popular scientific presentation of the economic and social history, a history of the technology as well as economic and art history. Using historical material and media processing, the visitor is informed about a noteworthy constituent of industrial history. 235 MEDIA took responsibility for both the technical planning as well as the entire multimedia realization. This exhibition has been open to the public since January 2007 in the small house of the Villa Hügel in Essen

PARTNERS: In Cooperation with Dr. Ulrich Hermanns Ausstellung Medien Transfer, Münster und Steiner, Szenische Architektur, Wuppertal

Interaktive Tischlandschaft

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CLIENT: T-SYSTEMS

MARCH 2007

After a successful precedent project at T-Systems fair trade exposition in 2006 235 MEDIA shows anew interactive animations of modern ICT-infrastructures at the CeBIT 2007 in Hannover. Examples of the IT solutions “Contact Center VoIP” and “Mobile Customer Relationship Management” are displayed on two interactive tables. A moderator comments on the complex contents of the animations. The two-dimensional animations ally on top of the table with three-dimensional models and form a communicative and informative scenery.

PARTNERS:

In cooperation with the agency Brandrelation, Cologne

InfoSlider für das ZDF

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CLIENT: ZDF
MARCH 2007

For CeBIT 2007 235 MEDIA designed an interactive information wall for ZDF. The particular challenge was to make the ZDF online library accessible to trade fair visitors in a haptic manner. The 6.20 meters x 2.07 meters dimensioned light box with a stainless steel casing presented central themes from the ZDF Online-Mediatheque. Trade fair visitors could move the flat screen TV mounted on a guide rail both horizontally and vertically across the whole area. Depending on the position of the XY-coordinates, the flat screen displayed the various topic fields in the ZDF Online-Mediatheque, which could then be expanded upon via the screen. The Info-Slider is a variably deployable information system that can be brought into action wherever detailed information needs to be imparted from a total overview.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Uniplan

Video Lounge

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CLIENT: Kunstmuseum Bonn
Febraury 2007

Because of the video lounge, the video archive of the art museum is now accessible for individual use by visitors to the Kunstmuseum in Bonn. 235 MEDIA developed a software and a user interface that makes possible both a simple selection from the catalog and the subsequent presentation of the video work.

The video lounge is embedded in a walk-in installation by the artist Stefan Eberstad. From the archive, which is characterised in particular by the extensive video collection of Ingrid Oppenheim, the visitor can, at two stations and with the help of a trackball, select a title from a clearly designed menu and have it played either on a monitor or as a projection. The technology is incorporated into the sculpture, which simultaneously serves as a seat.

235 MEDIA auf der EXPONATEC 2006

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FEBRUARY 2006

235 MEDIA ®evolution presented interactive applications for conveying information through exhibitions: individual presentation concepts, interactive installations and interface solutions. Alongside ideas such as the interactive table, which had already been successfully implemented, 235 MEDIA introduced two new products:

TDS – TRANSPARENT DATA SYSTEM – is a transparent, interactive projection screen with newly developed software.

The ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEM is a multifunctional information system with various sizes of monitors and an easy-to-operate software interface. Guidance information can be can supplemented with up-to-date event announcements, news and video clips.

In addition, 235 MEDIA offered a strategy for the preservation, restoration and archiving of media art.

Gründung der Stiftung imai

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Juni 2006

On the initiative of the media art agency 235 MEDIA and the City of Düsseldorf the first non-profit foundation imai is dedicated not only to the distribution of media art, but also to conservation and research issues is created.

Starting in the 1980s, the founders of 235 MEDIA, Ulrich Leistner and Axel Wirths have built up an extensive archive of video art as well as an international distribution network. Thanks to the active commitment of “Kunststiftung NRW” and the support of “Kulturstiftung der Länder” and in cooperation with “NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft” and “stiftung museum kunst palast” both the collection and the distribution structure of 235 MEDIA have now been transfered to imai – inter media art institute.

For further informations and concerning all requests for video art works, please contact imai:
imai – inter media art institute
Ehrenhof 2
40479 Düsseldorf

+49.(0)211/8998798
www.imaionline.de
info@imaionline.de

All installations and the special art edition are still available at 235 MEDIA.

PARTNERS:
Stadt Düsseldorf, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kunststiftung NRW

Luisenhütte Balve

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CLIENT: Museen des Märkischen Kreises
MAY 2006

The two projections show old film footage from the everyday life of the iron and steel workers. The challenge in the design of the projection screens was in their integration into the lavishly restored pre-industrial architecture. The solution developed by 235 MEDIA is called transparence. The installed Priva-Lite panels are inconspicuously translucent in an inactive state, but, upon entering the room, triggered sensors turn them opaque, so that they can then serve as an optimal screen for the incipient projection. One panel is installed in the timberwork of the Möllerbodens and the other in the area of the discharge aperture in front of a brick masonry structure.

The interactive table developed by 235 MEDIA is a central element of the exhibition and illustrates the former production process by means of lavish computer animations. Visitors to the museum discover in eight steps, and with the use of animations, voice recordings, images and graphics, emotively presented details about the pre-industrial working methods in the ironworks.

Interaktive Tischlandschaft

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CLIENT: TELEKOM
MARCH 2006

For the trade fair appearance of T-Systems at CeBit 2006 in Hannover, an animation of the complex processes in modern ICT infrastructures was produced.

By way of a miniature landscape comprising five interactive tables, moderators provided visitors with information on the four themes of Seamless Communication Services, Administration / Storage, Collaboration (R & D) and IT Management.

As a new element, real 3D models on the tables were integrated into the animation for the first time. Zooms from high-resolution aerial imagery landed precisely on the models and thereby combined reality with its simulation.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with the Agentur Brandrelation, Cologne

Fotografie-Ausstellung

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CLIENT: Deutsches Museum, München
February 2006

235 MEDIA designed a multimedial presentation system for the re-creation of the permanent exhibition “Technical Images” at the Deutsches Museum in Munich

The objective was to combine the aesthetic integration of the depictive media in the exhibition architecture with the impartment of an extremely large amount of detailed information. With utilisation of the TDS – Transparent Data System and the latest projection technology, the achievement was made that the visitor always has easy access to additional information, whilst at the same time allowing the effect of auratic exhibits, mainly old photo and film cameras, to be in the foreground and not be disturbed by the information system. Other highlights of the concept lay upon the fast and intuitive access to information by the visitor and the easy maintenance and updating of the information content using a Content Management System, CMS.

Biocity

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CLIENT: ZOO MÜNSTER
JULY 2005

The BioCity in the Münster Zoo was inaugurated in July 2005 and comprises the International Centre for Turtle Protection, a research workshop for school children and a permanent exhibition about biodiversity. 235 MEDIA developed the concept for the mediatechnical-planning in cooperation with Heimatfabrik Kulturproduktion Münster, and they also produced eight partly interactive media installations:

– Cube-Station “Biodiversity” (interactive)
– “Whirl of images”
– Turtle-station
– Informative game “Bionic” (interactive)
– Walk of the animals (installation at the entrance)
– two audiostations, (outside and interactive)

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Heimatfabrik Kulturproduktion Münster

NRW-Kubus in Japan

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: STATE NRW
2005

On behalf of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia and in cooperation with the agency “Die PR Berater”, 235 MEDIA developed and produced the “NRW-Cube”. As a part of the presentation “Germany in Japan 05/06” in Tokyo, visitors can, from all four sides and at the same time, take an interactive journey through North Rhine-Westphalia.

The cube consists of a steel structure into which the four projection panels (Format 4:3) are incorporated. The projection technology, remote replay machine and ventilation equipment are accommodated, invisible from the outside, in the lower screened part of the cube. For navigation, steles equipped with an integrated trackball and lateral speakers are located about 3 meters away from the projections.

The cube can be completely assembled or dismantled by three people in about three hours.

PARTNERS:

In cooperation with Die PR-Berater

Mercedes Benz Nutzfahrzeuge

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Mercedes Benz
April 2005

For the utility vehicles IAA in Hannover in 2005, 235 MEDIA developed an extensive media concept for their trade fair appearance. It started with the formulation of a central theme, as well as the motto of the fair, progressed via the design of the separate entry and animation areas of the stand and carried on through to the overlapping stand and product communication.

As so-called “Highlight Communication”, 235 MEDIA developed a scanning unit which, as a robot module, impressively spotlighted the technical capabilities and features of the utility vehicles.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with facts & fiction and Dreiform

Bosch

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Bosch
February 2005

In a cooperation with the architectural firm Kulka, 235 MEDIA developed a Mediatecture concept for the new building at the Bosch company training center in Stuttgart.

With large-format projections onto the water surfaces of the central courtyard the interactive installation progresses synergically to the architecture. With simple actions, such as the clapping of their hands, visitors can control the projections. The images blend with the water surface and take an associative reference to the products and services manufactured and offered by the Bosch company.

PARTNERS:
Architekturbüro Kulka

Video et Cogito

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: LUDWIG FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL ARTS, AACHEN
JULY 2004

Thanks to a new conservation strategy, video works from the early years of video art are accessible to the public again. The Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen shows refurbished artists’ videos from the museum’s collection in its exhibition Video et Cogito from July 2, 2004. The Ludwig Forum is Germany’s first art collection undertaking concrete measures for the protection of its valuable artists’ video collection in co-operation with 235 MEDIA.

The custom conservation strategy was developed at 235 MEDIA in Cologne with the support of specialised video technicians and a graduate restorer. The strategy is applicable to other collections, too, and creates the basis for a continued restoration of video art works. Additionally, the exhibition presents extensive information documenting the process of conservation and underlines the before/after effect in a series of photographs.

The development was made possible within the settings of the MedienKunstArchiv project for the conservation and digital archiving of video art tapes. The MedienKunstArchiv project (MKA) is supported by the German Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Art Foundation) and will make video art accessible online to the public for the first time. In a first stage, some 1,100 artists’ videos shall be digitised and entered into an online archive by the end of the year.