Designing an augmented reality exhibition: Leonardo's Impossible Machines
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Ravensbourne University London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- NL02
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- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.49
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- EVA London Electronic Visualisation and the Arts: Proceedings of EVA London 2020
- First page
- 271
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- Open access status
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This output represents the work of the project "Leonardo's Impossible Machines" that represented a collaboration between a traditional animator (M.Smith), an augmented reality specialist (Rasool) and a digital culture theorist (Lambert) to represent and display renditions of Leonardo's designs for perpetual motion machines within a traditional museum space.
The work was commissioned by the Museo Galileo in Florence for £10,000, shared between Birkbeck University of London (where the curators Juliana Barone and Joel McKim are based) and Ravensbourne University, with Lambert, Smith and Rasool. The project ran from 2018-19 and the first exhibition was at the Peltz Gallery in Birkbeck from Feb to March 2019, then from Oct 2019 at the Museo Galileo in Florence. https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=4088 and https://www.museogalileo.it/en/museum/explore/temporary-exhibitions/1802-leonardo-da-vinci-and-perpetual-motion.html
The solutions utilised the Microsoft Hololens and a tablet using AR software; and the aim was to enhance the experience of physical works of art with an explanatory digital overlay, using original drawings as the basis for the AR experience. The paper fuses the contributions of the three authors and was discussed at several public forums, including "Holograms in the Museum" at Birkbeck (http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/birmac/holograms-in-the-museum/)
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- Non-English
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