Victoria, Live from 1916
An interactive museum screen that rotates and the rotation changes the view. The viewer is able to manage their perspective, scan around the room, and follow the actor.
The Tour
Teaming up with the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum, we made a 90 degree view of the Confino Living History Tour. The tour give a viewer an interactive way to view the museum and it's tours. The "living history" apartment is based on the Sephardic-Jewish Confino family from Kastoria (once part of the Ottoman Empire, now in Greece). A costumed interpreter dressed as teenage Victoria Confino circa 1916 welcomes visitors as though they were newly arrived immigrants, teaching them how to adapt to America. The Confino tour is a hands-on experience and visitors can touch any items in the apartment.
The Video
The video was created with 5 cameras set on their sides. The actor enacted a seven minute program. In post-production, the video was stitched together in Final Cut Pro to give an extremely wide view, (720 height x 2400 width), The screen is placed on a digital potentiometers that sent screen location to a microprocessor. The microprocessor sent data to a computer. The application, Max/MSP Jitter processed the screens location and sent the appropriate view to the video screen.