Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Volker Kuchelmeister, Joachim Tesch, Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Andy Arthurs, Sarah Kenderdine, Kevin Sumption, Grace Cochrane
2004/2005
Immersive Interactive Environment
Introduction:
Conversations@the Studio presents an innovative mixed-reality narrative model of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Decorative Arts collection within a uniquely designed Intelligent Interactive Information Environment. It takes the natural navigation of a real world situation – a contemporary Glass Studio - as its point of departure, using this as a framework for organizing a set of narrative formations that further elaborate the thematics of the collection. By visualising a 360 degree global video recording, made on location at the Glass Studio, it provides the telepresent experience of an actual visit to the Studio, giving full interactive freedom to the viewer's gaze.
Installation at the Powerhouse Museum
This project aims to dramatically enhance the presentational flexibility of museum information delivery through the application of an immersive system of cinematic visualisation, modelling the integration of three kinds of interactive narrative. By allocating selective agency to both objects displayed and to viewers within a virtual environment, the system allows museum visitors to invest even static artefacts with a range of vivid narrative purpose. This project has been adjusted to accommodate the fact that only 50% of the requested ARC budget was awarded. This has necessitated a concentration on the experimental demonstrator for the Powerhouse Museum and web site evaluating and documenting the study. It has also necessitated a simplification of the original model whereby the presence of narrative agents within the IIIE has been replaced by an interaction strategy where the multilayered narrative extensions are embedded within the global video recording. This is articulated by multiple audio streams, and by conjunctions between the global scene and close-up sequences that detail the glass handling process.
Edols & Elliot Glass Studio Brookvale. Spherical view
