Museum of Communication, Berne — Permanent Exhibition ‘nah und fern’
In cooperation with ‘element design’ and ‘point de vue’, iart developed the adaptable museum technology for the Museum of Communication in Berne, Switzerland.
The exhibition media illustrates different communication contexts and types of communication and helps visitors to experience them. For example, a visitor stands opposite a virtual person in whom he or she can trigger different reactions by choosing different questions. Or a visitor sits down on a sofa and chats to a second person who sits beside him or her. However, that second person is only present in a virtual way on the screen opposite and is in fact sitting in another room. The communication or the virtual presence consequently occurs in different rooms but at the same time. The audio guide was used to deepen the information and to translate the exhibition’s content. iart was responsible for the conception, development and realisation of the technical part of the interactive exhibition.
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Museum of Communication, Berne
Permanent exhibition, Opening: June 2003Customer/Client
Museum of Communication, Berne
Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunication, BerneServices iart
Concept, planning and realisation of the mediaMedia
Interactive screen installations
Black box installation
Blue box installation
Projections
Ambient sound
Exhibition lighting
200 audio guides, based on Toshiba Pocket PCs e740Project Partners
element design GmbH, Scenography
point de vue, Audio-visual productionsProject Duration
2 yearsExhibition Area
1000 m2
First exhibition space: Installation ‘Generations’.
Exhibition space ‘Post’ with time line on the development of the post.
Exhibition space ‘Telefonie’.
Video installation ‘Magic Blackbox’.
Exhibition space on radio and television.
Exhibition space on Hyper Media.
Installation work for ‘Magic Blackbox’.