Science Museum - Wellcome Wing
We have just finished production on three interactive works for the new Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum in London, due to open to the public on July 3rd 2000.
The Network Globe
The Network Globe installation is the first thing that you see and hear as you enter the Digitopolis floor of the Wellcome Wing. A large, immersive screen shows a wire mesh of a globe revolving slowly, around which a variety of networking images orbit, gradually increasing in size and opaqueness as they orbit towards you. Reaching out to grab an icon will trigger the themed movie of that icon to play. The themes include travel, news, games, banking, music, surveillance, working remotely, shopping, tourism, children, communication and so on.
The impressive sound track is the result of commissioning Gabi Braun to create an appropriate mood for the installation. The way in which the sound track works with the visual information, allows a suggestion of cynicism about networking to exist, and sets a substantial tone for proceeding through the rest of the Digitopolis floor.
Sound Editor
Sound Editor also exists on the Digitopolis floor of the wing and visitors can explore this installation to create their own movie 'edits', using a variety of video, music and sound styles. This installation includes specially commisisoned music from Evelyn Glennie and Greg Malcangi, Barry Adamson and Rob Godman. It also includes "Praise You' by Fat Boy Slim, with tracks from iO and a soundtrack by Orlando Gough. Sound Editor is a reversion of the 'Backtracks' CD-Rom made by Illuminations Interactive for Channel 4 and the British Film Institute.
Sound Editor Online
In addition to the two installations above, we have created an online version of Sound Editor to exist on the Science Museum's website. Sound Editor is one of only ten interactives chosen for re-versioning online, representing the content of the Wellcome Wing to potential museum visitors from across the globe. Sound Editor Online features a specially commissioned animation from Bruno Martelli of Igloo, which uses the 'Flash' software. See Sound Editor Online here.
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