Entries from Projects tagged with 'history'
Participation Nation
Participation Nation is a game for teaching American constitutional history and civics to high school students. Players can play the “Forces of Change” or the “Status Quo” in a debate over the constitutional issues that shaped the country. This prototype focuses on the constitutional crisis surrounding school integration in Little... [Read More]
Tags: constitutional history, debate game, educational, game, history
The Cat and the Coup
The Cat and the Coup is an experimental documentary game in which you play the cat of Mohammed Mossadegh, the democratically elected leader of Iran. On the night of August 19, 1953, a CIA-engineered coup replaces the Prime Minister with an absolute dictatorship. As a player, you coax Mossadegh through... [Read More]
Tags: art, game, history, literature
Fitting In
Part museum exhibition and part virtual world, Jessica Rosenblatt's MFA thesis, Fitting In, is a unique interactive exhibit that aims to transport its participants to another era. This project uses the powerful technique of somatic interaction as an alternative to the passive museum exhibitions that dominate history education today. By... [Read More]
Tags: costumes, educational, history, interactive, motion, museum exhibit, somatic interaction, video projection
Ah-Satan
Ah-Satan, the thesis project of MFA graduate Ashley York, employs a database cinema and historiographic approach to create a unique spin on the traditional documentary. Ah-Satah tells the story of six individuals who were implicated in a murder as teenagers and sentenced to life in prison. In this installed... [Read More]
Tags: database cinema, documentary, history, immersive environment
Humboldt
Venture to the Interior is investigating the collections of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The collections are a rare corpus of objects from many different fields of knowledge starting around 1717. The major part of the collections was amassed in the 19th century drawing from a new model of... [Read More]