PLACE-Hampi © Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw
PLACE-Hampi’s innovatively designed visualisation and interaction environment articulates an unprecedented level of viewer co-presence in a narrative rediscovery of a cultural landscape. Using a motorized platform the viewers can rotate the projected image within a 360-degree screen and explore eighteen high-resolution augmented stereoscopic panoramas of Hampi’s most interesting locations.
Embedded within this rich scenery are lively narrative events enacted by computer graphic characters based on the mythological deities. These animations are drawn from figures in the classical Hindi epic the Ramayana and those relevant to the site of Hampi using the popular aesthetics of “magical realism”.
The visual landscape is contained within a spatial sound field made from 360-degree ambisonic recordings, enlivened by classical Carnatic musical compositions. As the user controls and navigates the space the dynamic interactive rendering system delivers a sonic experience that is intimately connected with the visually panoramic and augmented space.
While PLACE-Hampi embodies a single user interaction model, the autonomous narrative scenarios that populate each of the panoramic scenes with mythological significance become endowed with the emergent narrative relations to become a kinaesthetic performance involving the entire audience.
PLACE-Hampi provides a framework for a new approach to the expression of the cultural experience, whose aesthetic and representational features gives a dramatic new appreciation of the many layered significations of such historical, archaeological, and architectural spaces.
PLACE-Hampi © Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw with:
John Gollings, Paul Doornbusch, Dr. L. Subramaniam and Paprikaas Animation.
PLACE-Hampi was produced with the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Australian Research Council, and with major support from the UNSW iCinema Centre, introduction, Museum Victoria, Epidemic, ZKM Karlsruhe, Gollings Pidgeon and, Music and Effects. Place-Hampi forms part of and was supported under the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Project’s scheme.
Concept and Project Directors:
Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw
Photography:
John Gollings, Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw
Computer graphic design and animation:
Paprikaas Animation, Bangalore
Audio Design:
Paul Doornbusch
Composition:
Dr L Subramaniam
Archaeological advisors and facilitators:
George Michell, John Fritz, Archaeological Survey of India
Fieldwork Coordinator
Sarah Kenderdine
Audio Recording:
Paul Doornbusch, Doron Kipen
Stereoscopy Consultant:
Paul Bourke
Application Software:
Adolf Mathias
Installation Design and Engineering:
Jeffrey Shaw, Huib Nelissen
Motion Captured Dance:
Lingalayam Dance Company, Sina Azad
Australian Research Council Investigators:
Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Paul Compton, Maurice Pagnucco, Andre Van Schaik, Craig Jin, Peter Weibel, Sarah Kenderdine, Tim Hart, John Fritz, Volker Kuchelmeister.
