Bernd Lintermann, Torsten Belschner, Mahsa Jenabi, Werner A. König
CloudBrowsing: Open Codes
- Artists
- Bernd Lintermann, Torsten Belschner, Mahsa Jenabi, Werner A. König
- Title
- CloudBrowsing: Open Codes
- Themenbereich
- #GenealogyOfCode
- Hashtag
- #Computing #Interface
- Year
- 2009/2017
- Medium / Material / Technic
- interactive installation for the PanoramaScreen
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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 MediaIn 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)