Tag: diorama
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Digital dioramas at the Moesgaard Museum (DK)
A report on a research visit to the Moesgaard Museum, and its digital stereoscopic prehistory dioramas. Augustus 2021. Aarhus, Denmark.
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Living Planet, Dead Space
The representation of biodiversity, animals, and ecologies at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. A critical review of the Living Planet hall at the Brussels Museum of Natural Sciences (“…resembles a high-end shopping mall more than a natural history museum”), which opened in the Fall of 2020.
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Mistakes: the artist talk
‘Mistakes: the artist talk’ (2020) is a video essay (or rather: Powerpoint on steroids), made during the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. It responds with immediacy to the unusual situation, connecting the European spruce bark beetle outbreaks to the human respiratory virus, and pop culture to eco-anxieties.
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The dioramas of the AMNH
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is famous for its dioramas. This post is a report of my research visit to the AMNH in March, 2019. It was part of a residency, which unfortunately was cut short due to the Covid pandemic. See also: Mistakes. The artist talk.
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Choir of a gothic church diorama
Report of a research visit to Daguerre and Bouton’s only remaining diorama at the church of Bry-sur-Marne: a 19th century high-tech religious theatre experience.
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Hark! The clock of Notre Dame strikes!
A review, published in 1844, of the Diorama theatre show in London by reporter J. Saunders: a lively account of this pre-cinematic, immersive experience. Diorama theatres showed enormous, semi-translucent paintings that were animated using light- and sound-effects.
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