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Instant City — Interactive Art Installation

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:51:32 +0000

‘instant city’ is an interactive art installation by the artists Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth. Its sound and lighting reacts on visitors’ interactions and functions as a parlour game, a computer game, a building set, an illuminant, a music instrument. iart was responsible for the sensor technology.

instant city

Ebisquare — Shopping and Adventure Mall

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:49:00 +0000

Within a draft design iart conceived a media concept for the shopping and adventure centre ‘Ebisquare’ where the visitors’ were supposed to experience the diversity, beauty and exotic of Switzerland.

Alfresco — Interactive Video Fresco

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:40:09 +0000

In cooperation with Tweaklab AG, iart developed the interactive control system of the multi channel video installation ‘Alfresco’ for the Museum für Gestaltung Basel (Museum of Design).

Museum of Communication, Berne — Permanent Exhibition ‘nah und fern’

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:36:34 +0000

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.

Project description for download

Museum of Communication, Berne
Permanent exhibition, Opening: June 2003

Customer/Client
Museum of Communication, Berne
Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunication, Berne

Services iart
Concept, planning and realisation of the media

Media
Interactive screen installations
Black box installation
Blue box installation
Projections
Ambient sound
Exhibition lighting
200 audio guides, based on Toshiba Pocket PCs e740

Project Partners
element design GmbH, Scenography
point de vue, Audio-visual productions

Project Duration
2 years

Exhibition 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’.

in vain — Video Stage Setting

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:15:09 +0000

iart was responsible for the technical planning and realization of the multiscreen video stage setting ‘in vain’ by the artist Olaf Nicolai at the Theatre Basel.

10 + 5 = Gott — Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:12:10 +0000

For the exhibition ‘10 + 5 = Gott’ at the Jewish Museum in Berlin iart, in cooperation with d-case Zurich, developed the concept for the exhibition media.

stadtlicht — Colour and Light Design for Two Tower Blocks

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:40:37 +0000

For two tower blocks of the Christoph Merian Stiftung iart realized a light installation. The windows of the top floors were illuminated with coloured lighting from behind, which resulted in on coloured stripe each. Depending on the season and the internet activity of the people in Basel the colour changed.

Expo.02 Arteplage Murten — 360° Projection

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:39:32 +0000

On the occasion of the Swiss National Exhibition Expo.02, iart, in cooperation with the group ‘Panorama2000’, realised the panorama ‘Switzerland Version 2.1′ in Jean Nouvel’s Cube: a 360° projection that was 23 meters wide and 7 meters high, it presented high density digital images in real time.

A small ferry took visitors to Jean Nouvel’s Cube in the middle of Lake Murten. On the ground floor of the three-storey pavilion, they first came across a curved 360° screen onto which a precisely choreographed succession of images was projected in an alternating rhythm: the 360° panorama ‘Switzerland Version 2.1’ that took them on a journey through Switzerland’s history, geography, tales and myths.

On the second floor a restored historic panoramic painting from the year 1894 represented the Battle of Murten in 1476. From the top floor visitors could see the real panorama of Murten’s natural surroundings.

The panorama ‘Switzerland Version 2.1′ was compiled by a group of artists from a huge stock of pictures of Switzerland. Famous, stereotypic pictures were used as well as less familiar ones and even some that were totally unknown: their own photos, media pictures and loans from other collections. The pictures were painstakingly digitalised, processed, modified and combined into a series of images that succeeded one another calmly with occasional bursts of a faster rhythm.

While the historical panorama on the second floor attempted to communicate closeness to reality at the same time as an optical illusion, the central objective of the group ‘Panorama2000’ was to dispel clichés through modifications and new juxtapositions, hence evoking new associations with the theme of Switzerland. Visitors were intended to find their own image of Switzerland again or to be able to reinvent it. With images taken from the public and the private sphere, the artists explored notions such as reality, identity, belonging and homeland.

The images, which were projected onto the 360° wall by 24 computer-controlled projectors, were repeated in a thirty minute cycle. Viewers did not have a fixed vantage point in front of the panorama. They advanced through the room along ramps arranged in the form of a double helix, moving first up and then down, without changing direction or meeting anyone. Visitors’ perspective and their distance from the panorama were therefore continuously changing.

Project description for download

Expo.02 Arteplage Murten — 360°-Projection
Temporary exhibition: 15 May to 20 October 2002

Customer
Expo.02, 6th Swiss Expo

Services iart
Concept, planning and realisation of the 360° projection

Media
360° Projection, realised by 10 projectors controlled by computers

Content
2000 photographs

Project Partners
Group Panorama2000: Ursula Freiburghaus, Christoph van den Berg, Monica Studer, Claudia Müller, Julia Müller, Andreas Reuter, Dominique Salathé, Valentin Spiess, Volker Trommsdorff, Emanuel Tschumi

Project Duration
6 months

Exhibition Area
700 m2

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The ‘Monolit’ by Jean Nouvel on the Murten Lake war reachable by boat.

The pictures continuously changed.

Rows of pictures projected onto the 360° sceen by 24 beamers.

Sich selber im dunkeln sehen — Video Installation

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:34:49 +0000

(to see one self in the dark)
Supportet by digital video technology, viewers can expierence the world of blind people themselves.

Walter Riedweg, Maurizio Dias for the Biennale Sao Paulo

LIKLAK — Light Cube for Short Messages

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:31:02 +0000

LIKLAK was an illuminated cube by Claude Hidber which could be used as information carrier. By sending a short message from a mobile phone the ticker of the cube was activated.

Project description for download

LIKLAK — Light Cube for Short Messages
by Claude Hidber, Diploma project at Hyperwerk, Basle
Several presentations on different occasions

Client/Customer
Claude Hidber

Services iart
Development and programming of the interactive cube

Media
LED Banner
Micro Controller
SMS-Interface

Project Duration
6 months

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For the institute Hyperwerk, Basel (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz)