- App
Karlsruhe Maptory – A Digital Enactment in the City
Eine digitale Inszenierung im Stadtraum
2015
Maptory
© ZKM | Karsruhe
- Type of publication
- App
- Publishing house, place
- ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
- Physical Description
- from iOS 8, iPhone ab 5S, iPad ab iPad3
- Language
- German
- 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.
Organization / Institution
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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Images
The ZKM app »Maptory« with an overview of the locations of the augmented reality markers in Karlsruhe.© ZKM | Karlsruhe; Bern Lintermann
Maptory© ZKM | Karsruhe
Maptory: The physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894)© ZKM | Karlsruhe; Bern Lintermann
Maptory: Magdalena Meub, the first licensed female pharmacist in Germany (1881–1966)© ZKM | Karlsruhe; Bern Lintermann
Maptory: The chemist Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915)© ZKM | Karlsruhe; Bern Lintermann
Maptory: the Haber-Bosch column on the KIT campus commemorating the chemist Fritz Haber (1868-1934)@ ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Maptory: The fountain by the architect Hermann Billing (1867-1946) at the Karlsruhe Stephansplatz© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Maptory: the fashioni designer Emmy Schoch (1881 - 1968)© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Maptory: the inventor of the cathode ray tube Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)@ ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Maptory: A window of the Badische Landesbibliothek, built by Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926-2007)© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
