Love and Loss
An immersive, interactive digital installation involves museum visitors in an exhibition about love and loss.
- Gentle, Pensive Engagement
- Motion-Sensing
- Complementary To The Exhibit
Love And Loss was an exhibition that presented a selection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum’s collection of social documentary ephemera. Its purpose was to involve visitors in the emotional context of the artefacts, recognising the stories of heartache and heart-break in the manuscripts, letters and diaries.
To support a more thoughtful ‘quiet’ exhibition, we were asked to create a digital installation using Kinect technology, that sensed the presence and movement of visitors, translated this data into a visual abstraction and used effects that explored their relationships as individuals and connected entities.
What emerged is a visually-lyrical moment that evolves differently based on the number of people involved and their physicalities. While the experience was abstract and undemanding, a large range of visitors were engaged with ideas of self, connection and the forces and vacuums that influence us.
Evolution
- Thoughtful Interaction
- Texture And Form
- Emotional Response
An evocative palette
Stylised representation of viewers
Playing with different levels of abstraction
Capturing gestural fluidity
An Abstract Story
- Different Inputs
- Visual Stimulus
- Colour Communication
To create a sense of narrative, certain actions and interactions prompted evolutions in the visuals.
On Approach
Particle-representations appear as visitors are sensed. As they move their arms and hands emit particles around the scene.
Interaction
When visitors are sensed to be close to each other, on-screen their figures merge, and their colours combine..
Separation
As people move apart, their particles separate and return to their original colours.
Video
- Evanescent
- Particle Rendering
- Suggestive Imagery
A digital installation that emotively supports the stories of heartache and heart-break behind a museum collection.
Using Kinect technology, we created a visually-lyrical moment that evolves differently based on the number of people passing through, their forms and relative distances.
