Posts Tagged ‘Museum’

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.

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

Krupp

Posted by Lina Heuschen

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

Video Lounge

Posted by Lina Heuschen

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.

Luisenhütte Balve

Posted by Lina Heuschen

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.

Fotografie-Ausstellung

Posted by Lina Heuschen

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.

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.

ILLUMINATION:EVOLUTION

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Senckenberg Museum
APRIL 2004

For Luminale 2004 Atelier Markgraph, Showtec, Four to one and 235 MEDIA have worked in partnership to create a multi-media light-show in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum. The 235 MEDIA ®evolution interactive table will be placed in the Dinosaur Hall and will function as a control centre for light, video and sound.

This cable-free communication tool combines up to date sensor technology, user interface design and multi-media programming with the relaxed feel of sitting around a conventional table. Three billion years of evolution to an infinite future:

The Senckenberg museum embodies the patina of research upon which pivotal moments in the development of life and of the multitude of species are etched. The Senckenberg museum is considered a beacon of scientific excellence in Frankfurt Rhine-Main.

PARTNERS:
In cooperation Atelier Markgraph,
Showtec,
Four to one

Das elektronische Schmuckstück

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: SCHMUCKMUSEUM PFORZHEIM
SEPTEMBER 1989

Starting from the assumption that the visitor of a jewellery art exhibition cherishes the wish to touch or wear those jewels 235 MEDIA created this installation. The locked-up and secured showcases create a distance between the exhibition objects and the visitors that is necessary for reasons of security, but basically contradicts the intention of the exhibitor as well as the needs of the visitor.

The visitor’s desire to wear or own one object or another cannot be met in reality, but it can be simulated with the computer and video technology. Provided they are wearable, the exhibited pieces of jewellery are recorded by a video camera and saved digitally (digital library). By using the the catalogue number, they can be selected on a monitor within a minimum of time.

In an installation setup, the visitor can now stand (or sit) on a marked spot in front of a camera and choose the desired piece of jewellery. With the help of an electronic punch, the operator (necessary for the installation) fixes the jewellery to the visitor’s body. The visitor can watch this procedure on a monitor. Once the object on the monitor is in the desired position, a video or Polaroid printer will print out a full-color picture for the visitor to take home.

Ornamenta 1

Posted by Lina Heuschen

CLIENT: Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
September til November 1989

An unprecedented number of exhibits by 222 artists and designers from 23 countries was shown as a representation of the uniqueness and variety of artistic jewellery design.

An artistic advisory board was responsible for the exhibition concept. It decided about the exhibition design and selected the exhibits based upon the suggestions of advisors form eleven countries, ensuring international variety.

With large photographs, posters and flags, ORNAMENTA 1 extended right into the city of Pforzheim. The exhibition was complemented by supporting programmes such as symposiums about design culture, jewellery and commerce as well as numerous lectures and workshops.

ORNAMENTA 1 is documented in a 320-page catalogue containing over 220 full-colour images and available in a book trade edition (Prestel-Verlag, Munich).