Ausstellungsraum Biometrie

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

Kaiser, Senat & Volk

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

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.

Medienstationen im Wiedenbrücker Schule Museum

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

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

Zur Deutschen Sozialgeschichte

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

Krupp

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

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

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

Interaktive Tischlandschaft

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

Biocity

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

Mercedes Benz Nutzfahrzeuge

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

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

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.

Pizza Tisch

2001

The development of the interactive table shown here for the catering industry was one of the pilot projects of 235 MEDIA ® evolution, intended to optimally combine elements from art, design and technology. The product qualities of the system are geared to the needs of gastronomy with regard to aesthetic-sensory quality, involvement, emotion and function, moods, etc. The interactive processes create new moments of experience, which redefine the relationship between space and user, between real and virtual communication levels.

The basic concept includes a menu selection, which can be tailored to different needs. As in a modular system the application is extensible, eg through games, video or camera recordings or the associative visualisation of the proposal. In addition, there are various possibilities to influence the spatial environment: different sensors allow, for example, interactive illumination control or influence on the sound level.

The presentation should provide an idea of the manifold possibilities for the use of interactive tables in the field of gastronomy. In concrete applications these opportunities would be customised to individual needs and space specifications.