Benchmark:

Conversations@the Studio sets a new museological multi-media benchmark. Its interactive and immersive frameworks allow the viewer to experience themselves present in a distant space where artists are engaged in their daily creative craft making activities. They can move their gaze freely anywhere in the live performance space whose unedited real time narration converges with the real time engagement of the viewer. This space-time continuum between the local (Powerhouse Museum) and remote (glass studio) location enables the viewer to achieve an immediacy of experience that has hitherto not been achievable in multi-media exhibits. This is reinforced by the dynamic surround sound reproduction of the glass studio environment that is sensitive to the virtual position of the viewer’s gaze. A key feature of Conversations@the studio is the dynamic tracking of the viewer’s gaze in both space and time that visually magnifies specific events of interest. This polychronic cinematic operability gives the viewer a multi-visual faculty that moves seamlessly between an apprehension of the total active space and the amplification of its significant details. The movement is further emphasised by the viewer’s freedom to move between the live ambient surround sound recording made in that space, and the focussed commentaries of the glass studio artists which refer to specific processes and events that are unfolding.


Space-Time relation of close ups in the 360º global recording

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