VIA – Roman Road Adventure Experience

CLIENT: Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne
August 2014

Once the Roman province of Germania Inferior was connected to Rome and the remaining parts of the Roman Empire by a network of roads of more than 100,000 kilometres. If you are interested in exploring these old Roman roads in the Rhineland by foot or with the bicycle, you will enjoy the “Erlebnisraum Römerstraßen” [Adventure Sphere Roman Roads] project.

A total of 18 municipalities are cooperating with one another to make this historic road come alive again.

235 MEDIA is implementing a total of 15 predominantly interactive media stations. Among other things, one of the main installations was the media slider in the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne. Over a distance of four metres, a touch-monitor is mechanically moved over a graphic by the visitors. At different positions an interaction is possible, which offers the visitor in-depth information.

Copyright for the first Photo: Römisch-Germanisches Museum/Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln (Anja Wegner)

PARTNERS:
In collaboration with Dr. Ulrich Hermanns Ausstellung Medien Transfer

Energeticon

CLIENT: ENERGETICON gGmbH
August 2014

In the converted buildings of the former “Grube Anna” coal mine the ENERGETICON adventure museum opened its doors in August 2014 in Alsdorf with four large-scale permanent exhibition areas: “The History of Sun and Earth”, “The History of the Fossil Industrial Age”, “Energy Transition” and “The History of the Regenerative Industrial Age”. In a vivid manner ENERGETICON explains to its visitors the necessary energy transition from the nuclear/fossil age to the age of renewable energy in a global context. The 700-meter arena with about 30 stages focusses on strong visual and haptic forms in the presentation of the complex subject of energy.

235 MEDIA has realized a total of 17 partly multi-part and interactive media installations. The range of services covered by 235 MEDIA included production management, concept and storyboard creation, editing and adaptation of scientific content, wireframing, development of the look and feel, usability engineering, creation of animations and movies, audio production including directing of the voice recordings and multi-channel sound design, as well as the entire post production process.

For a special thrill, 235 MEDIA realized a 3D animation for ceiling monitors and a Body-Shake-System in an elevator which creates the illusion of a mine ride at a depth of hundreds of meters even though the real journey in fact is just a few meters. The coal mine being accessible in this way was equipped with audio and video productions by 235 MEDIA and gives a vivid impression of the everyday work of a miner.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Atelier Brückner

West Prussian State Museum

CLIENT: West Prussian State Museum
June 2014

In an exhibition space covering 900 m2, the West Prussian State Museum (Westpreußisches Landesmuseum) presents the cultural history of the former German area in the lower reaches of the Vistula River. Since December 2014, this museum has been housed in a former Franciscan monastery at the edge of the historic centre of Warendorf in the Münsterland region. More than 20 rooms of the former Franciscan monastery in Warendorf were purpose-equipped with a contemporary design and the latest media technology.

235 MEDIA realised several installations, some of which are interactive, as well as building an infoslider in front of an amber display case.

PARTNERS:
In collaboration with Bild-Werk Expo & Event

Centre Charlemagne, Aachen

CLIENT: Stadt Aachen
June 2014

The city of Aachen recently commemorated the 1200th anniversary of the death of Charlemagne by hosting a three-part exhibition dedicated to the ruler of the Frankish Empire. The trio of exhibitions held under the title of “Karl der Große. Macht Kunst Schätze” (‘Charlemagne. Power, Art and Treasures’) was also accompanied by the presentation of the city’s new museum, the “Centre Charlemagne”, to visitors.

The new museum uses four epochs to demonstrate to visitors how the history of the city of Aachen is inseparably linked to the history of Europe as a whole.

Its exhibition is divided up into four parts, each focusing on a different epoch and combining historic and artistic exhibits with multimedia presentations.

235 MEDIA was involved in the concept development and exhibition planning for the museum and was responsible for the implementation of the media planning, the detailed planning of all media installations and the screen design.

PARTNERS:
In collaboration with Dr. Ulrich Hermanns Medien Ausstellung Transfer and cultural institution of the city of Aachen.

Orte der Macht

CLIENT: Stadt Aachen
June 2014

The largest special exhibition focusing on Charlemagne in Aachen was held in the Coronation Hall in Aachen City Hall. It invited visitors to explore courtly life in Carolingian times, showed Charlemagne as a king and military leader travelling between imperial palaces, used archaeological and art-historical evidence to outline the material foundations of his rule and provided an insight into the external role models that motivated him to create a ‘place of power’ in Aachen.

The media presentations not only provided visitors with in-depth factual information, but also enabled them to experience elements of popular science by offering different depths of information ranging from striking demonstrations through to a variety of educationally oriented informative displays depending on the topic in question.

In order to make the exhibition as attractive as possible, these were additionally joined by four complex media installations. Upon entering the hall, visitors were first greeted by an elaborate 3D visualisation of the shrine of Charlemagne in Aachen Cathedral in order to acclimatise them to the atmosphere of the exhibition. In the middle of the exhibition, a video panorama with a diameter of 5.50m presented life in the Palace of Aachen.

At the end of their tour of the exhibition, visitors were able to view two interactive large-format installations that focused on the nature of the phenomenon of power in the present day and gave visitors the opportunity to actively participate in this discussion.

235 MEDIA was involved in the concept development and detailed planning of the exhibition and was responsible for the technical planning, media planning, and screen design of every interactive media installation.

PARTNERS:
In collaboration with Dr. Ulrich Hermanns Ausstellung Medien Transfer and cultural institution of the city of Aachen, Prof. Dr. Pohle.

The exhibition was open to visitors in the Coronation Hall of Aachen’s historic City Hall from 20th June to 21st September 2014.

Museum im Mendelssohn-Haus, Leipzig

CLIENT: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation
February 2014

The Mendelssohn House in the German city of Leipzig reopened on 3rd February 2014. The exhibition informs visitors about the life and works of the musician and composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who lived and worked in Leipzig for many years.

The museum offers a variety of interactive exhibits that enable visitors to explore the works of Mendelssohn Bartholdy. One of its outstanding highlights is the interactive room installation “Effectorium”.

In the “Effectorium,” visitors can use a baton, the Leap Motion technology and a touchscreen to ‘conduct’ a digital orchestra. The Leap Motion Controller records their movement and uses their actions to control the music. The ‘conductors’ can also influence different factors such as volume for both the entire orchestra and individual orchestra or choir groups. They can also control the lighting of the room, with the LED lighting changing its colour and intensity according to their movements.

235 MEDIA supplied and installed all of the media technology used in the “Effectorium”.

In cooperation with WHITEvoid GmbH

Mendelssohn House Museum
Goldschmidtstraße 12
04103 Leipzig

Opening hours: every day 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Concerts: every Sunday at 11 a.m.

„Made in Oceania: Tapa – Art and Social Landscapes“

CLIENT: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
OCTOBER 2013

The exhibition “Made in Oceania: Tapa – Art and Social Landscapes” presents unique works of art from the museum’s collection together with many loan pieces that have never been displayed in Europe before.

235 MEDIA designed and realised all of the media installations, including an interactive photo installation with a historic camera, allowing visitors to photograph themselves in original Melanesian clothing.

In addition to this, numerous videos and five interactive info stations were also created. A video-mapping installation on the exhibition’s key visual rounds off the media concept.

MÜLHEIM 2020 zum Anfassen

CLIENT: Die PR Berater
JULY 2013

Bright red. Gigantic. Impossible to miss – MÜLHEIM 2020 makes a very clear statement in the middle of Wiener Platz in Cologne-Mühlheim.

The lord mayor of Cologne, Jürgen Roters, unveiled the two meter tall and six and a half meter wide sculpture on Wiener Platz in Cologne-Mühlheim. With this the structural development program MÜLHEIM 2020 went into its second phase.

235 MEDIA took over the technical construction and production as well as the logistics and assembly of the installation.

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

CLIENT: Cologne Institute for Economic Research
May 2013

For the presentation of the new info truck of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) 235 MEDIA produced an approx. five minute animation film.

The animation starts with an exterior view of the truck in a fictitious landscape and then goes on a tour from the lower to the upper level inside the truck. In total ten trucks will be built by IW Media which on their nationwide tours will inform students, parents, and teacher about education opportunities and professions in the metal and electrical industry. For this purpose there are various information and experimental stations on two levels, which are reproduced in the animation film.

As well as the creation of the script and production of the animation 235 MEDIA also conceptualised and realised the sound design and speech recordings with explanatory information.

PARTNER:
In collaboration with Cologne Institute for Economic Research.

Gladiatorenausstellung „Brot und Spiele“

CLIENT: LVR – Archaeological Park Xanten
September 2012 til May 2013

With 630,000 visitors in 2011, the LVR – Archaeological Park Xanten (LVR-APX) is one of the most-visited museums in Germany and, at the same time, one of the most important archaeological monuments in Europe. The new “Bread and Games” visitor experience, installed in the north ambulatory of the partially reconstructed amphitheatre and the three adjoining rooms (“Carcer IV–VI”), provides visitors with information on the topic of “Gladiators” in an authentic setting.

235 MEDIA installed doors with video players and audio systems with an auto-loop function in the outdoor area of the arena ambulatory. An interactive animation of a bear is installed in “Carcer V”. If visitors approach the bear’s cage, the bear rushes to the bars, stands up and growls at the visitors. If the visitors stay longer, the bear hits the bars with its paw and roars again. The interaction is based on sensor technology and Arduino programming, and the image is rear-projected.

All of the equipment is built into air-conditioned housings with self-regulating heating and ventilation in order to protect the technology from the effects of weather.

235 MEDIA planned and realised all of the installations.

Kunstmuseum Bonn

CLIENT: Kunstmuseum Bonn
April 2013

The video lounge in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, which makes the video archive accessible for individual use by visitors, has been modernised and expanded. 235 MEDIA developed a new user interface that makes a database search possible as well as the playing of films. For the video search via a touchscreen monitor the visitor can use either a list view of the works according to artist, title and year of origin or a full text search.

All video works were digitalised and converted by 235 MEDIA, and the associated metadata from the print catalogue was digitally recorded. The video data and content information were integrated into a specially conceived content management system that is now permanently available to the Kunstmuseum for the independent recording of new video art works.

As well as conception, design development and programming, 235 MEDIA also undertook the conception of media technology to ensure the smooth integration of the archive in the walk-through installation of Stefan Eberstad which contains the video lounge.

Mercator-Ausstellung

CLIENT: Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg
MARCH 2013

Duisburg’s Museum of Culture and Local History greets visitors in the newly designed “Mercator treasure room”, and takes them on a voyage of discovery on the trail of cartographer Gerhard Mercator, creator of the world’s first atlas in the 16th century. With the cartography technique he invented, the Mercator projection, he laid the foundation for modern cartography. Even today captains and pilots navigate with maps which are created based on this principle. A variety of media installations ensure modern and fun communication of the facts of Mercator’s life and work.

235 MEDIA designed, developed graphically, programmed and realised two interactive media installations for the Mercator treasure room. The monitor installation “Red Wall” gives information about the intellectual conditions and cultural-historical background of the Renaissance, the era of Mercator. The “Interactive World Atlas” gives visitors the possibility of browsing through Mercator’s magnum opus, the “Atlas sive Cosmograhicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura” (“Atlas or cosmographic mediations on the creation of the world and the form of creation”), and to examine it closely via a zoom function.

As well as this, 235 MEDIA installed all the media and control technology in the Mercator treasure room.

German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control

CLIENT: German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control
January til November 2013

Within the framework of the Renewable Energies/Energy Efficiency Export Initiatives, the Federal Republic of Germany is participating in a total of 10 trade fairs with a joint stand in 2013. Part of the corporate design is an interactive media table and a 360° projection that is used to support the communication goals. In addition, these exhibits act as design elements and help the stand to achieve a long-range effect.

The media table realised by 235 MEDIA consists of a circular projection table with a diameter of 100 cm, a projection cylinder with a 500 cm diameter mounted above the table, and the corresponding control units. The multi-touch surfaces allow visitors to learn interactively about the focal topics of the Renewable Energies/Energy Efficiency Export Initiatives. Different imagery is generated on the projection cylinder depending on the accessed content, providing changing atmospheric moods at the trade-fair stand.

The rear projection is complemented by a multi-touch function with an IR camera detection system, an IR laser matrix and a HD camera. The 360° projection is realised with six projectors on a rear-projection screen and steered by a Watch Out system.

Stations:
Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Johannesburg (South Africa), St. Petersburg (Russia), Bangkok (Thailand), San Francisco (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Mexico City (Mexico), Manila (Philippines), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Casablanca (Morocco)

Inside the Station

CLIENT: International Polar Foundation, Brüssel
DECEMBER 2012 TIL MAY 2013

The “Inside the Station” exhibition takes visitors on an expedition to the South Pole! The destination is the “Princess Elisabeth Antarctica” polar research station.

235 MEDIA was responsible for supervising and implementing the concept of the whole media production of the exhibition, which covers 700 m2. This includes an interactive media table located in the technology room, the centre of the exhibition. At this multi-touch table, visitors can enjoy the experience of playing with the complex system of the zero-emission polar base. Seven more external monitors are integrated into this room environment and display the respective energy levels of electricity consumption and production.

In addition, 235 MEDIA has implemented an interactive telescope with which visitors can learn more about the polar station. The video editing, subtitles, and sound design of the various exhibition rooms complete the immersion in the media environment, which enables visitors to be transported to Antarctica or to the kitchen in the polar station.
All the media equipment was delivered and installed by 235 MEDIA.

PARTNER:
In cooperation with Atelier Brückner

InfoSlider

The InfoSlider is the perfect medium for presentations aimed at providing detailed information after establishing a general impression. It consists of a monitor mounted in front of a large illuminated display on which individual information can be printed. Visitors can slide the monitor back and forth on the x- and the y-axis, and at predefined positions it will display additional information in the form of films, photos and texts. In the version equipped with a touchscreen monitor, the InfoSlider also allows for direct access to the Internet. This enables visitors to independently research complex topics in a playful manner.

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Gesture Control

The Gesture Control measures with the help of infrared tracking photo points of moving persons, objects, or parts of the body. A multitouch controller is extended to the 3rd dimension and transfers the system into a stable gesture tracking system. This offers a wide variety of new programmable logic controller of interactive systems. Further more the Gesture Control can be combined with other sensor technology like single touch or radar sensors which offers far more possibilities for the interaction design.

Religio Telgte

Client: Museum RELíGIO
April 2012

The new RELíGIO museum in Telgte is dedicated not only to religious themes of local importance, but also to thwider context of human spiritual belief throughout history and in the present day. This includes everyday rituals, belief systems and religious diversity in the modern world. The museum addresses all those who are interested in religious questions.

A particular highlight is the new presentation of the historically significant Hunger Cloth of Telgte, in a specially created room. 235 MEDIA was responsible for the multimedia technology, the interactive graphics, the programming and the film editing. Furthermore, we were involved in developing the editorial content for certain topics.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with bild-werk Expo & Event GmbHs

235 MEDIA auf der EXPONATEC 2011

EXPONATEC
The international trade fair for museums, conservation and cultural heritage.
NOVEMBER 2011

We are looking back on a successful EXPONATEC 2011, the international trade fair for museums, conservation and cultural heritage.

As in the last four years 235 MEDIA presented scenography concepts, specialized interactive solutions, and multimedia exhibits. We had many interesting conversations, and we are looking forward to new and exciting projects.

The following innovations were introduced at the EXPONATEC 2011:

3D Sensor

The 3D Sensor is able to detect the exact coordinates of moving persons, objects, or parts of the user’s body by tracking infrared photo points. Now we are able to add the third dimension to a multi-touch controller and thus to transform the system into a gesture tracking system. A wide range of new controls of interactive applications is conceivable by this new technology. We are also able to link the system to other sensor technologies like single touch, or radar sensors to extend the possibilities for interaction design even more. Further more the 3D Sensor can be combined

Interactive network media database

A unique software system which consists of a combination of media database, web-based Content Management System and an interactive application. Complex interactive applications on client computers dispersed all over the world in as many language as wished can be controlled easily, which helps to achieve a high degree of sustainability for your content management and presentations.

Fly ButterFly – interactive wall projection

Butterflies, flowers,  leafs are dancing and floating to the rhythm of the music. Fly ButterFly is an interactive installation, which generates motifs according to the music you are listening to. You can create your own program by selecting images out of the library and by controlling speed, behaviour or size of the desired objects. Fly ButterFly can be customized for any architectural situation by using one to eight projectors, or a 360-degree-panorama.

Technoseum Mannheim

CLIENT: Technoseum, Mannheim

29. October 2011 til 29. April 2012

235 Media developed and implemented the entire media technology and an interactive table featuring a 3D Depth Sensor for gesture control for the “Our Daily Bread“ exhibit.

The visitors can interactively take a meal from a conveyor belt at the table and gather information with regard to water consumption, CO2-emmission, price and caloric expenditure for diverse food items. A table with 4 empty plates is on display. A conveyor belt with trays containing diverse food items, from which the visitors can extract one by hand gesture runs through the centre of the table. Information regarding the water consumption, CO2-emmission, price and caloric expenditure for diverse food items can be obtained for each individually assembled plate. Each piece of information is incited in an interactive and entertaining manner.

PARTNERS: In cooperation with gewerk GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin

Rondo

CLIENT: DEUTSCHES BERGBAU-MUSEUM
2011

Mining and transport of saltpetre and other raw materials throughout the past centuries are the topic of a multimedia installation developed by 235 MEDIA.  In a 360-degree roundel suspended from the ceiling nine monitors have been fixed as a panorama. They synchronously show a film collage flowing over the borders of the monitors. The collage, composed of photographs and films and accentuated by a sound design, tells the exciting story of the important raw materials.

Wasser 2011, Berlin

CUSTOMER: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wasserverbände in NRW
MAY 2011

For the trade fair appearance by the North Rhine-Westphalian Water Authorities Association – agw – at the Wasser 2011 in Berlin, 235 MEDIA created an interactive table.

The objective was to bring visitors closer to the many and varied tasks and questions affecting matters relating to water, the use and consumption of waste water and to underline the Association’s public responsibility. At the interactive table visitors were able to learn more based on texts and pictures which could be chosen by means of a suitably designed interface. As an entertaining and much used extra attraction, a memory game was integrated into the table where people were able to follow the number of moves in the game.

PARTNERS: In cooperation with SCHIRWON, Messekonzepte mit Format GmbH

NRW-Forum Düsseldorf & NRW Landesvertretung Berlin

Client: JIHK
May / June 2011

To mark the 150th anniversary of trade relations between Japan and Germany, the exhibition “150 years as Economic Partners” took place in the NRW Forum Düsseldorf and in the Representation of the State of NRW in Berlin. The exhibition provided information about the economic relations between the two countrieswitha survey of the past, present and future. Here visitors were led through a veritable forest of info panels to our interactive table where they were able to discover by themselves a multitude of information on the German-Japanese economic partnership. Another outstanding feature were some 50 items on display, from old drawings from Japan, by way of a soy sauce barrel from the 19th century right up to the super-lightweight HAL® robot suit by the CYBERDYNE company. 235 MEDIA planned, developed and implemented the scenographic concept for the exhibition, the interactive table, the exhibition panels and the presentation of the exhibits.

PARTNERS:
In collaboration with Fischer Lichtgestaltung,
DIE PR-BERATER and Zurek Spezialbauten.

4D–Kino & ECOPIA-Reifentest

Customer: Bridgestone
March 2011

235 MEDIA implemented a 4-D cinema and the ECOPIA-tyre-test bicycle for BRIDGESTONE, Europe. The 81st International Automobile-Saloon in Geneva (03/03 – 03/13/2011) was the first official location. The next location was at the 64th International Automobile tradeshow in Frankfurt am Main (09/15-09/25/20110

Bridgestone 4-D Cinema
The 4-D Cinema is inviting tradeshow visitors to review three Bridgestone tyres. You are able to select a 3-D movie for each of these tyres. The sound is provided by high-performance surround sound equipment. When the car starts, built in fans are blowing an airstream into the visitor’s face. If the vehicle brakes abruptly, the seat is raised by pneumatic equipment, allowing the visitors to experience the break function. If the animated vehicle begins slipping and swerving, the entire seat vibrates. If the tyre blows out after driving over a nail, the spectator will experience a slight bumping sensation on the seat. If the journey continues through ice and snow, the passengers will feel frigid air and if the tyre overheats due to too much rolling resistance, hot air is dispensed. The interaction of these functions transforms these films into a (almost) true 4-D experience.

Technology: 65” Panasonic 3-D monitor, Panasonic shutter-glasses, 2.1 surround sound. Additional features: Pneumatics, vibration engines, high-performance axial fans, cold- and climate technology, SPS-control system.

ENCOPIA-Tyre-Test Bicycle
In this adventure exhibit, a regular commercial pneumatic tyre is installed on one side and a Bridgestone ECOPIA-low friction tyre on the other side. During the ECOPIA tyre-test the spectators can sit in a comfortable sportsseat and experience the difference between the tyres. Although the tyres have identical measurements, the differences between the two tyres regarding rolling resistance and road noise can be distinguished.

PARTNERS: In cooperation with Uniplan GmbH & Co.KG

Hans Arp: Traumanatomie

CLIENT: Landes-Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
26. DECEMBER 2011

The goal was to develop modular and reusable exhibition architecture for the museum created by Richard Meier. The art bulletin (1-2/10011 edition, page 56), reports on the results: “The fantastic spatial effect of Richard Meier’s museum construction project is used effectively to establish surprising perspectives and visions by alternating between intimate built-ins and open views.” Selected small sculptures have been effectively placed in an open view with three sequential lighting conditions: “Sophisticated lighting effects provide an additional subjectivity of the view: The versatility of Arp’s artistic base element has been effectively staged.” (Art bulletin, see above)

Security sensors, developed by 235 MEDIA as well, enable the open positioning of exhibits on large wall pedestals.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with nowakteufelknyrim and Fischer Lichtgestaltung.

DB Museum, Planet Eisenbahn

CLIENT: DB MUSEUM

DECEMBER 2010

Until the 27th February 2011 the DB Museum celebrated 175 years of railway in Germany with its special exhibition “Planet Railway”. For this exhibition several multimedia interactive installations were realised by 235 MEDIA. Using intuitive movements the visitors can turn a seemingly three-dimensional globe and in doing so learn interesting information about the development of the railway system. The radar-touch used here allows for a multi-touch interaction without actually contact. On an eight meter half-round wall, pictures of the future railway assemble to futuristic sounds from particles floating in from the room. The visitors are able to choose pictures from the double projection via a capacititive sensor system and receive further information. The Railomate, a 42“-touch screen with camera, the visitors can virtually choose between different railway caps and put them on. The result can be sent home via e-mail as a greeting.

An interactive table demonstrates to the visitor that the railway was a driving factor for the introduction of a common time zone in the German Empire. An animated map of around 1880, with sound design and speech, first shows how the railway net expanded and more and more trains ran. Eight realistic church spire models show different times. On the sound off a bell the clocks synchronise and the trains drive smoothly throughout the whole empire.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation with Uniplan

Bayer MaterialScience

Bayer MaterialScience

27. October – 3. November 2010

On the occasion of the trade expo K2010, an Interactive Product Portfolio was developed for Bayer Material Science. A total of 20 interactive interfaces allow for an intuitive access to over 80 product stories. A strict structure for interaction and a clearly designed interface make of easy access and orientation within the stories. An ambient modus visualises the five theme areas by generating the actual data structure as a 3D-room. This “data room” loads the stories into the interface. The core of the application is the central data bank with all contents which are administered via a web based Content Management System (CMS).

PARTNERS:

Concept / Design: dreiform GmbH, Köln

Multimedia: 235 Media GmbH, Köln

Fair construction: Werbe- und Messebau Walbert-Schmitz GmbH & Co. KG, Aachen

Construction Management: smd + partner, Aachen

Film production: Kutscher grafics in motion, Köln

Light: rgb GmbH, Essen / prg GmbH, Köln

Photos: Stefan Schilling

Erlebnisexponat Röntgenbus

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

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

Mies van der Rohe Award

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

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

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

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

Studio Azzurro – Der Schwimmer

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

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.

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In cooperation with Bildwerk, Dortmund

Catwalks

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.

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In cooperation with Überraum, Paris

Architektur der 60er und 70er Jahre in NRW

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.

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In cooperation with NowakTeufelKnyrim

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

Projektion Ruhr

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

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

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.