exhibition - Binaural Views of Switzerland
Next exhibitions:
Festival Castel dei Mondi, Italy
Autumn 2024
Past Exhibitions:
SonOhr Festival
Grand Palais, Bern, 2022
Indications: https://goo.gl/maps/i8DTJX5XpDouf9ar9
10.2. - 27.2.2022
Brixton House
London, UK
8-12.3.2022
Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection
brixtonhouse.co.uk
August 2021
Fringe
Edinburgh,UK
Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
2 - 14 February 2021
Lugano High School 1
Lugano, CH
26 February - 7 March 2021
SonOhr Festival
Bern, CH
https://sonohr.ch/
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
5 September - 11 October 2020
FIT Festival internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea
https://www.fitfestival.ch/
LAC Hall - Lugano, CH
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/NEZC1yGxuMKTQLmM6
November 2020
PHOTO IS:RAEL
Tel Aviv, Israel
(”Selfies” video sequence)
http://www.photoisrael.org
14 - 17 May 2020
Swiss Stereoscopic Society annual assembly
La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
18 - 20 June 2020
4th International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media
Lisbon, Portugal
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
7 - 31st August 2020
Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection Edinburgh
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Accademia di Architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana.
Thursday 14 November - Thursday 5 December 2019.
Festival Castel dei Mondi, Italy
Autumn 2024
Past Exhibitions:
SonOhr Festival
Grand Palais, Bern, 2022
Indications: https://goo.gl/maps/i8DTJX5XpDouf9ar9
10.2. - 27.2.2022
Brixton House
London, UK
8-12.3.2022
Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection
brixtonhouse.co.uk
August 2021
Fringe
Edinburgh,UK
Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
2 - 14 February 2021
Lugano High School 1
Lugano, CH
26 February - 7 March 2021
SonOhr Festival
Bern, CH
https://sonohr.ch/
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
5 September - 11 October 2020
FIT Festival internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea
https://www.fitfestival.ch/
LAC Hall - Lugano, CH
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/NEZC1yGxuMKTQLmM6
November 2020
PHOTO IS:RAEL
Tel Aviv, Israel
(”Selfies” video sequence)
http://www.photoisrael.org
14 - 17 May 2020
Swiss Stereoscopic Society annual assembly
La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
18 - 20 June 2020
4th International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media
Lisbon, Portugal
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
7 - 31st August 2020
Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection Edinburgh
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK
CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Accademia di Architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana.
Thursday 14 November - Thursday 5 December 2019.
By following the 1863 Swiss journey of the British photographic genius William England, the exhibition presents a series of his stunning stereoscopes in a newly constructed Kaiser Panorama.
Each photograph is connected to two soundscapes:
1. The environments recorded in the exact present-day locations where the photographs were taken.
2. The fictional sounds of how those locations might have sounded in 1863.
The total immersion experience becomes a unique occasion to travel through time by seeing and, in addition, listening to the differences between the modern-day environment and that of over 150 years ago.
How
has the industrial revolution and subsequent contemporary tourism
affected the landscape?
These are some of the questions the exhibition raises.
Parallel to the Kaiser Panorama, every location visited by Alan Alpenfelt is photographed in 3D format and placed on Google Maps Street View.
Extracts from these photos are printed as a series, in homage to William England who, in a way, can be considered the inventor of what has become the promotional touristic photography of today.
Each photograph is connected to two soundscapes:
1. The environments recorded in the exact present-day locations where the photographs were taken.
2. The fictional sounds of how those locations might have sounded in 1863.
The total immersion experience becomes a unique occasion to travel through time by seeing and, in addition, listening to the differences between the modern-day environment and that of over 150 years ago.
How
has the industrial revolution and subsequent contemporary tourism
affected the landscape?
What
has changed radically and what still remains intact?
How
do we address tourism sustainability and its impact on the
conservation of the environment?
These are some of the questions the exhibition raises.
Parallel to the Kaiser Panorama, every location visited by Alan Alpenfelt is photographed in 3D format and placed on Google Maps Street View.
Extracts from these photos are printed as a series, in homage to William England who, in a way, can be considered the inventor of what has become the promotional touristic photography of today.
The Kaiser panorama
At the centre of the Exhibition is the Kaiser Panorama. A sort of public stereoscopic viewer, it was patented by its inventor August Fuhrmann in ca. 1890. There would be a number of viewing stations through which people would peer through a pair of lenses showing a number of rotating stereoscopic glass slides
In our exhibition, we add the element of sound technology. Connected to each view, there are headphones available to listen to binaural recordings of the present-day soundscapes recorded in each location. They can be compared with the imagined soundscapes of long ago.
In our exhibition, we add the element of sound technology. Connected to each view, there are headphones available to listen to binaural recordings of the present-day soundscapes recorded in each location. They can be compared with the imagined soundscapes of long ago.
Contact: info [at] vxxzweetz [dot] com
Special thanks to
Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana for providing the space, The London Stereoscopic Company and Peter Blair for providing information on William England, to all the tourist agencies who helped Alan find the exact spots.
Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana for providing the space, The London Stereoscopic Company and Peter Blair for providing information on William England, to all the tourist agencies who helped Alan find the exact spots.
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