Karlsruhe Maptory – A Digital Enactment in the City
Eine digitale Inszenierung im Stadtraum
- Type of publication
- App
- Publishing house, place
- ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
- Year
- 2015
- Content
- The app »Karlsruhe Maptory – A digital Enactment in the City« guides its users through the inner city of Karlsruhe on the trail of important figures in the city’s history. More than 30 locations, stories or musical events connected with Karlsruhe scholars, scientists, and artists are staged and overlap with reality. Via augmented reality (AR) technology users experience these events on a mobile end device.
App users use a digital map for orientation in the city. In selected places they can delve into the stories via special AR markers. There are dramatic productions and music pieces, and users learn about intriguing stories and the backgrounds of the historic figures featured. Building facades transform into interactive spaces for painting and play, and posters turn into cinema screens. Scholars, scientists, and artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who where living and working in Karlsruhe come to life: on the virtual city tour one encounters Ferdinand Braun, the inventor of the Braun tube (cathode ray tube), the architect Hermann Billing, who together with the sculptor Hermann Binz designed the “scandalous fountain” on the Stephansplatz, Fritz Haber, who developed the first method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen for which he received the Nobel Prize for chemistry, but his discovery also advanced the use of toxic gas as weapon of mass destruction.
With this app, the ZKM seeks to connect various genres of the visual and performance arts in an entertaining and informative way, and to transform the city into a digital stage. Scenes performed by actors and digital montages alternate with animations or purely acoustic works.
»Karlsruhe Maptory« can be downloaded online for free from the Apple App Store and played on a private iPad or iPhone. You can also get a Tablet (to be booked) at the Loans Station at the ZKM.Loans Station at the ZKM
Up to ten iPads may be loaned via registration for guided tours on presentation of an identity card/passport. For this, reservations are to be made at least three days in advance: Telephone reservations can be made under: +49 (0)721/8100-1990, or by E-mail to: fuehrungen@zkm.de. Reservation via E-mail will be considered definite only once the ZKM has issued confirmation.
Please note that unforeseen technical problems with the App or iPads may arise. For this reason loans may be cancelled at short notice. - Language
- German
- Description
- from iOS 8, iPhone ab 5S, iPad ab iPad3
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Partners
- PIPES
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
SWR2 - Sponsors
- Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kunst und Medientechnologie e.V.
- Culture – European Commission
- Team
- Credits
Konzeption:
Bernd Lintermann, Florian Hertweck, Ludger Brümmer, Eva Lusch
Komposition:
Ludger Brümmer, Luca Magni
Augmented Reality:
Bernd Lintermann
Sound Design:
Holger Stenschke
Recherche:
Eva Lusch, Holger Jost
Entwicklung App:
Bernd Lintermann, Johannes Degenhard
Entwicklung Webpage:
Johannes Degenhard
Grafik Design:
Renata Sas
Organisatorische Unterstützung:
Silke Sutter
Technische Unterstützung:
Manfred Hauffen, Martin Häberle
Projektleitung:
Bernd Lintermann, Andrea Buddensieg, Sabiha Keyif
Kuratiert von:
Peter Weibel Video:
Dramaturgie und Regie:
Florian Hertweck
Darsteller:
Jan Andreesen, Jonathan Bruckmeier, Annette Büschelberger, Roland Funke, Florian Hertweck, Thomas Halle, Joanna Kitzl, Sofia Löffler, Antonia Mohr, Luis Quintana, Eva-Maria Rabsch-Hertweck, Gunnar Schmidt, Johannes Schumacher, Andre Wagner, Ralf Wegner
Choreografie und Tanz:
Annegret Schalke
Produktionsleitung:
Jan Gerigk
Kostüm:
Johannes Fried, Kim Lotz, Sherin Helling
Maske:
Karin Grün, Melissa Döberl
Requisite:
Johannes Fried, Volker Nowicki
Kamera und Licht:
Christina Zartmann
Videotechnik:
Moritz Büchner
Postproduktion:
Christina Zartmann, Moritz Büchner, Sarah Binder, Jonas Denzel, Martina Rotzal
Ton:
Alexander Hofmann, Jesús Jara, David Luchow, Marcel Mendel, Holger Stenschke, Manuel Urrutia
Organisation:
Brigitte Ostermann Hörstücke:
Text:
Holger Jost
Sprecher:
Isaac Dentler, Manuel Harder, Catharina Kottmeier, Matti Krause,Vincent Leittersdorf
Sprachregie:
Frank Halbig
Aufnahmen:
SWR Baden-Baden Biogramme:
Texte:
Eva Lusch, Holger Jost
Sprecher:
Isabelle Demey, Johannes Wördemann
Sprachregie:
Frank Halbig
Ton und Technik:
Dorothy Vossen, Bernd Hagen
Aufnahmen:
SWR Baden-Baden
