Starting at 18:00,  you can put the new hybrid museum experience “Constellation” exhibition tool to the test. Constellation expands the museum space and allows visitors to discover new connections between objects in the exhibitions, archives and collections of the DFF and its project partners. In this way, new and diverse constellations and storylines are created that allow for the discovery of richer cinematic knowledge.

At 18:30, David Rittershaus, researcher at Hochschule Mainz, will present the project and tool set Motion Bank. Motion Bank is a project originally initiated by choreographer William Forsythe to explore the possibilities of digital documentation and transmission of dance and choreographic work. Today, Motion Bank is an interdisciplinary research group at Mainz University of Applied Sciences that combines dance studies, software development and design. The presentation will focus on the development and use of a collaborative web application for multimodal annotation and how it contributes to a better understanding of the knowledge inherent in dance.

The NODE team will present a new tool idea that has just come up early this year in collaboration with METAhub and the Max-Dienemann / Salomon-Formstecher Gesellschaft: Mapping Offenbach is a prototype for a collaborative annotation tool. It originates from a shared development process between 12 artists, designers and researchers who reflected on the role of tools and people in memory culture. Sharing knowledge about the Jewish history of the city of Offenbach, the tool captures spoken stories and allows for annotations through multiple layers, therefore understanding knowledge as an active, living experience.

As always, the event will be accompanied by a warm, tasty soup – this time prepared for us by DFF <3!

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