Digital Cultural Heritage
Experience art like you've never done before.
Photo: Ars Electronica/Vanessa Graf
On the verge of a new Metaverse and Web3, cultural institutions need to reconsider on how remain a relevant space for perservation, presentation, teaching and discourse in the virtual realm.
Gigapixel Photography is a noninvasive process to create high-resolution 2D representations of Artworks and the Spaces they're in.
A Camera controlled by a robotic pan tilt head captures between hundreds to thousands high res photographs.
The Photographs are algorithmically "stitched" into a large mosaic.
The generated, high resolution panorama can collaboratively be watched on Multitouch Devices, Virtual Reality Environments and HighRes Projection Halls.
In a 10-day workshop on the topic of "Photo Mosaic in Gigapixel", students from the University of Applied Arts in Sousse, together with the creative team of the MuseumLab association, were able to embark on an exciting journey from the beginnings of a simple image of a mosaic to the modern high-resolution representation through pixel technology in practice. Guided by Florian Voggeneder, media artist and digital photographer of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and equipped with professional equipment, more than 300 photographs were created in addition to teaching media skills and a historical awareness of archaeological objects.
The Roman mosaic collection of the Archaeological Museum in El Djem served as a rich source of motifs. The pixel photographs are subsequently processed for a virtual tour by the association MuseumLab and presented on their cultural heritage platform.
At the end of the 15th century, the Mondsee Monastery was an intellectual center. Flourishing economically on the basis of the "Melk Reform", numerous artists settled in Mondsee. Abbot Benedikt Eck not only commissioned The Pacher Winged Altar, but probably also the anonymous "Master of Mondsee" with an altar in the collegiate church. Although the individual pieces of the altar were scattered after the disbandment of the monastery in 1791, essential pieces were preserved.
The pieces housed in the Upper Austrian Landesmuseen and the ones in the collection of the Belvedere were digitally reunited for the first time.
Michael Blümelhuber (1865-1936), who originates from Christkindl near Steyr in Austria, is regarded as the most important representative of the art of steel carving, which he took to an absolute peak. His works became internationally known through the world exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and in London in 1902. His main work "Menschheitszukunft" was created in 1922 in 9 months (!) and depicts a naked child on the globe. With stigmatised hands, it pushes against a tear, which threatens to split the earth after the tremors of world war one.
The 12,5 cm figurine was captured in 96 50MP still images, allowing to rotate and magnify into the images.
Curious? Questions? Get in touch to receive a quote.
Digital Cultural Heritage
Experience art like you've never done before.
Photo: Ars Electronica/Vanessa Graf
On the verge of a new Metaverse and Web3, cultural institutions need to reconsider on how remain a relevant space for perservation, presentation, teaching and discourse in the virtual realm.
Gigapixel Photography is a noninvasive process to create high-resolution 2D representations of Artworks and the Spaces they're in.
A Camera controlled by a robotic pan tilt head captures between hundreds to thousands high res photographs.
The Photographs are algorithmically "stitched" into a large mosaic.
The generated, high resolution panorama can collaboratively be watched on Multitouch Devices, Virtual Reality Environments and HighRes Projection Halls.
In a 10-day workshop on the topic of "Photo Mosaic in Gigapixel", students from the University of Applied Arts in Sousse, together with the creative team of the MuseumLab association, were able to embark on an exciting journey from the beginnings of a simple image of a mosaic to the modern high-resolution representation through pixel technology in practice. Guided by Florian Voggeneder, media artist and digital photographer of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and equipped with professional equipment, more than 300 photographs were created in addition to teaching media skills and a historical awareness of archaeological objects.
The Roman mosaic collection of the Archaeological Museum in El Djem served as a rich source of motifs. The pixel photographs are subsequently processed for a virtual tour by the association MuseumLab and presented on their cultural heritage platform.
At the end of the 15th century, the Mondsee Monastery was an intellectual center. Flourishing economically on the basis of the "Melk Reform", numerous artists settled in Mondsee. Abbot Benedikt Eck not only commissioned The Pacher Winged Altar, but probably also the anonymous "Master of Mondsee" with an altar in the collegiate church. Although the individual pieces of the altar were scattered after the disbandment of the monastery in 1791, essential pieces were preserved.
The pieces housed in the Upper Austrian Landesmuseen and the ones in the collection of the Belvedere were digitally reunited for the first time.
Michael Blümelhuber (1865-1936), who originates from Christkindl near Steyr in Austria, is regarded as the most important representative of the art of steel carving, which he took to an absolute peak. His works became internationally known through the world exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and in London in 1902. His main work "Menschheitszukunft" was created in 1922 in 9 months (!) and depicts a naked child on the globe. With stigmatised hands, it pushes against a tear, which threatens to split the earth after the tremors of world war one.
The 12,5 cm figurine was captured in 96 50MP still images, allowing to rotate and magnify into the images.
Curious? Questions? Get in touch to receive a quote.