The Wellcome Collection is a London museum that “explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future.” One of the prominent ways in which The Wellcome Collection is utilising digital media is through the use of digital storytelling. This is a relatively new term that describes a form of digital media production that allows people to share stories through video, animation, photography, and audio. This makes the stories compelling and emotionally engaging, and, like narrative based computer games, often involve user interaction. The resources available to incorporate into a digital story are virtually limitless, giving the storyteller enormous creative latitude. 175 The Wellcome Collection have created a number of digital stories around the history of medicine and tales from Old England. The Curious Gardener is a digital story in the …show more content…
It explores the idea of illusions creatively by designing this interactive website with illusions of space, depth and movement that the user can delve into, again utilising parallax motion. Visually the website is stunning and it’s use of parallax scrolling to allow objects to fly towards the viewer (figure 2) and to give a sense of depth is innovative. This use of motion and depth could be used to explore a range of objects and subjects, such as ornaments, painting and furniture. An incredible example of how parallax scrolling can be used to display objects is Sony’s Be Moved website. This is a very detailed and technical website that really pushes the boundaries of animation and parallax motion. As a way of exploring and displaying objects it is visually stunning and creates an experience that captivates the viewer. Some more examples of websites with scrolling that creates a sense of depth between objects are HotDot, Madwell and Bagigia (this also features rotating objects for an in depth
The West Georgia Museum of Tallapoosa is a blast from the past for most of the older generation while the younger generations get to see how their grandparents or great grandparents got to live long before they were born. The overall theme of the museum is honoring and memorializing the old city of Tallapoosa. When exploring the little museum, there are displays of old stores and work offices such as a dentist office or a doctor’s office display from the 1800’s. These displays are interesting to look at because most of the stuff on display in each of these rooms are actual items from that time or very close to that era. When viewing these rooms, there is a button viewers can press which activates a narrator to tell them what they are viewing
The Montclair Art Museum is located in Montclair, New Jersey. The museum holds various collections throughout the year and offers an outlet for students and other artists to explore within their facilities. Upon visiting, the main exhibition presented was Matisse and American Art. This exhibition held 19 pieces created by Henri Matisse and other American artists. The museum centered on central theme of Matisse and there was a specific gallery of Matisse inspired Art. In this gallery I found Untitled #8 (2014) by Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary African-American artist born January 28, 1917 in Camden, New Jersey.
Before I read this chapter, my understanding of garden is a resting place with flowers and bushes that surrounding by fence. Instead of flowers and bushes, homeless garden is build by largely random materials, such as toys and milk carton. It is not a traditional garden. In additional, it is a place of repose for homeless people or we can say it is temporary home for homeless people. Their home is deliberately constructed because homeless people want to live comfortably. That is why we called it garden.
The Hill-Stead Museum displayed the large art collection of Alfred Pope and his daughter, Theodate Pope. Alfred was the owner of the successful Cleveland Malleable Iron Company, which is where he earned his fortune. They manufactured a modernized, stronger, form of iron and then began producing railway couplings to hold train cars together. The business was extremely successful, as was the owner, Pope. The building is grand and decorated lavishly, filled with valuable art from across the world. In this way, the museum shows how people benefitted from the Second Industrial Revolution, and the lifestyle of those who had money during that period of time. The Museum shows exactly how the wealthy of that period in time lived. From the dishes to
Whether pride, fear, or peace, art is intended to make the viewer feel an emotion. The visit to the St. Louis Art Museum had me excited to discover a new revelation. Being the second time that I had visited in two semesters, I was looking forward to a new angle to take, writing about some of my favorite pieces I was unable to include in my last paper. This semester we have been focusing on the Renaissance era (1300-1700), also known as the Rebirth. During this time, scholars and artists looked back towards the classical learning. Purposefully looking past the middle-ages, they focused on the classical past of Rome and Greece. During this time period many works of art were created, however, throughout this semester every major artist we studied
The Heard Museum conveys the life and culture of Native Americans in the Southwest, with the help of pre-Colombian to contemporary art and a variety of traditional artifacts. Something that caught my eye was Rosie Yellowhair’s “Emergency Story” sandpainting. It depicts the Navajo creation story and how there were five worlds and what made the people move from the first world to the next. I thought that this was interesting because in class we talked about creation stories about Native Americans and I found those intriguing. So, seeing this sandpainting and knowing that its purpose was to tell its story of creation was astonishing because I’ve never seen a sandpanting that depicted a creation story.
The Labelle Heritage Museum was founded to showcase to the world the rich history, culture and heritage of Labelle and its surrounding areas.
“This is going to be so much fun!” I said. Me, my sister, and my two friends, Addison and Julia are avout to enter the Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum!
The Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest museums in the United States. Walking throughout the museum one will see more than six thousand years of history and about sixty four thousand works from six continents. Houston has one of the largest and most diverse art collection in the Southwestern United States. The main reason behind my museum choice is my love and fascination towards all the different art pieces from around the world.
In the Zimmerli Art Museum, I found the largest piece to be the Homage to Coco by Melvin Edwards in 1970. This piece really spoke to me as I felt it conveyed the core of figures, I felt that it described the way society takes everything for granted as the raw look of the chains and whatnot highlighted this. It reminded me of the well known “C’est ne pas un pipe”, similar to the homage to coco it emphasizes that not everything is at simple as it seems or looks the way it really is, to me this piece supported the Don’t Judge a book by its cover saying.
Being at the Philbrook Museum with my classmates wandering the basement would end up with all of us alive and well. We would be scattered upon the floor, not really knowing where each other are, but we would easily find one another because we will all have the same plan of getting out of there. The use of our cellphones would really come in handy because we could play some bad music that might just make the mummies want to run the other way. If playing bad music does not work, I am sure the basement is also used as a storage for the museum, making it easier to find props that can be used as weapons.
The power stories have to reveal the layers of humanity and create lasting impact on the world has always captivated me. That a series of words can bring a moment to life or expose a global issue. That a single image can bring you to tears or can change your entire world perspective. I remember growing up, reading books and magazines like National Geographic, learning about the world and the lives of people in far off places and seeing in the images something the words could never quite articulate. In my studies, I’ve pursued this fascination, developing the knowledge of how to share stories and events, to communicate ideas and experiences through both written and visual modes of expression.
For our Knowledge Sites and Digitization project, we did short stories on, “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and “At the Mountains of Madness” by H. P. Lovecraft. Digital Humanities is known as a concentration of a specific area that you are researching and its intersection with technology and how we can use technology to study the disciplines of humanities which is the study of human culture. Our project fits into the description of digital humanities because it organizes the data in a structural form which is easy to access, organized in a logical manner and it has a broad audience not only who are interested in writings of H.P. Lovecraft, but also who are interested in the horror genre. Our project combines popular culture and Digital Humanities
In his essay, “The Re-Emergence of Emotional Appeals in Interactive Data Visualization”, Charles Kostelnick compares printed data to language by noting media’s limited ability to stimulate thought and send a relatable message. Kostelnick states these two modes of messaging can evoke empathy or fear in an audience, but for what purpose? As his essay unfolds, he makes it clear that messaging must be multi-faceted – implementing color, interactive elements and animations – to truly evoke a substantial response in the viewer. This dissection seems to parallel many elements and stylistic approaches film uses to captivate its audiences.
This use of parallax motion and depth is being used to innovatively explore objects, ornaments, artworks and furniture, not only in cultural heritage but in a variety of institutions. A cutting-edge example of how parallax scrolling can be used to display objects is Sony’s Be Moved (fig. 7). It is a detailed and technical website that pushes the boundaries of animation and parallax motion as cameras, laptops and other forms of technical equipment come apart and are re-built as the user scrolls, showing the intricacy and craftsmanship of the objects interiors. Metal, plastic and wires fly towards the screen with an