CloudBrowsing: Open Codes

At the exhibition from November 1, 2017 to January 7, 2018

Conceived and created in 2009 the interactive installation »CloudBrowsing« makes searching for information on the Internet experienceable in a novel way. The installation turns »browsing the Web« into a spatial experience within a panoramic projection environment. Search queries and results are not displayed as text-based lists of links but as a dynamic collage of images and sounds. The content-based relations as well as the search histories and the information retrieval are not only visualized as a landscape of images but also audible as a dynamic soundscape that changes. The user browses the free online encyclopedia »Wikipedia«, which is compiled by a global community and thus exemplifies the collective knowledge of the Web. A mechanism for showing selected content was added later: the user can browse curated collections of links referring to selected topics.

In the version »CloudBrowsing: Open Codes«, realized for the exhibition, the audience is provided with information about the history and future of digital technology.

Overall concept, visual concept, production management, realization: Bernd Lintermann
Audio concept, realization: Torsten Belschner
Interaction design, realization: Mahsa Jenabi, Markus Nitsche, Werner A. König
Interface design: Matthias Gommel
Project management: Jan Gerigk, Petra Kaiser
Technical realization: Manfred Hauffen, Jan Gerigk, Nikolaus Völzow, Arne Gräßer, Joachim Tesch
Production: ZKM | Institute for Visual Media

In collaboration with AG Mensch-Computer Interaktion, University of Konstanz

A project conducted within the framework of the research association »Information at your fingertips – Interactive Visualization for Gigapixel Displays«, funded by the Information Technology Funding Program of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg (BW-FIT)