Project Presentation at Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage

7-9 Feb. 2024 in Rennes (France)

Marie-Claude Poulin / fulldomeXR Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna

VR & AR prototypes for multi-sensory, haptic forms of documentation and archiving of digital art (LeFo project)

The presentation introduces the development of virtual and augmented reality prototypes designated as a "Virtual Meta-Set" for three existing digital art installation/performance works and their processual artifacts. These are designed to simulate and reconstruct the artworks and their genesis in a virtual environment, thus enabling a travel between the works and their documentary and annotative materials. The goal is to investigate the constitution of a 3D archival user experience in which the metadata of each creation process are accessible and can be cross-referenced at any time.

The database contains “classical” and atypical documentary components such as 3D Models, sound and user data, distributed and staged in the same multi-layered virtual landscape. A portable controller allows users to access hyperlinks, manipulate virtual assets, and reorganize the space. Through their actions, they explore the environment, and a tracking of their movements, combined with their manual and verbal commands, turns the virtual space in a walkable, haptic experience.
Bringing distinct artworks to converge in this “Virtual Meta-Set” is not simply a technical feat, it is an artistic mission which, through simulation and immersive reconstitution, generates a new form of re-enactment. The challenge is also to test whether this type of epistemological-artistic environment, in which the immersion factor is an integral part, can lead to a new kind of meta-reflection on creative processes.

Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage
7. till 9. Feb. 2024 at Rennes 2 University (France)
https://reimagining-amch.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/2

Presentation
9. Feb. 2024, 9:30–11:00

Registration: https://reimagining-amch.sciencesconf.org/registration

LeFo VR & AR Prototype research group at University of Applied Arts, Vienna: Martin Kusch, Marie-Claude Poulin, Johannes Hucek, Thomas Hochwallner and Ruth Schnell.

LeFo Project Angewandte: fulldomeXR Lab and Center Research Focus, University of Applied Arts Vienna.

LeFo partners: Danube University Krems, University of Arts Linz and University of Applied Arts, Vienna

The LeFo project was made possible with the support of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research of the Republic of Austria (BMBWF).

Marie-Claude Poulin is Senior Artist and project collaborator at the fulldomeXR lab/University of Applied Arts Vienna and founder and co-director of the digital performance group kondition pluriel. Her research combines choreographic strategies, motion analysis/notation, digital visualization, programming rules, and modes of user interaction in XR and AI environments. She has performed for Meg Stuart and Benoit Lachambre and presented her work at venues such as ZKM, ISEA, EMPAC, SAT, CYNETart, ICA and Ars Electronica.

https://www.dieangewandte.at/fulldome_lab

LeFo 1 ©Kusch-Poulin

Martin Kusch

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