Images are everywhere. With images, artists and video game creators go from imagination to reality. Police officers use them to trace criminals or to recreate three dimensional images of crime scenes. Astronomers and doctors use images to tell our universe’s history and diagnose diseases with greater precision. How is all this possible? Beyond Images is an interactive exhibition that demystifies digital imaging and presents some of its applications. Three dimension images, interactive images, generated images, synthetic images, modeling... the progress of sciences and technologies have provided artists, doctors and engineers with fantastic work tools. The exhibition presents different applications, including a medical laboratory and a module allowing you to hide a top secret message in an image. In our everyday life, the digital boom is most observable through the ever growing performances of computer hardware as well as through the entertainment industry, namely cinema, video games and photography. Many multimedia artists participated in this exhibition, thus contributing to create a scenographic universe that is both artistic and technologic.   This exhibition was made possible by the generous contributions of:     This exhibition was co-produced by:         in collaboration with:   PICTURE GALLERY Print pictures (pdf)

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Ideal space:

Floor plan of the exhibition

• 200 square meters or 2 150 square feet;

• 2,45 meters or 8 feet of ceiling height;

• Storage space of 32 square meters or 345 square feet for the 16 transport crates.

The Beyond Images exhibition is divided into three zones composed of freestanding panels.

More specifically, this exhibition includes:

• 2 display cases featuring artefacts;

• 20 interactive games;

• 5 videos;

• 1 sound track;

• 7 works from the Hexagram Institute, of international reputation:

  • 1 interactive table with projection, created by Jean Dubois and Philippe Jean;

  • 2 works by photographer Raymonde April;

  • 1 architectonic sculpture made by rapid prototyping by Nicolas Reeves;

  • 1 lamp combining ecological design and rapid prototyping technology by Philippe Lalande;

  • 1 “DARWIN” virtual character creation software designed by Michel Fleury;

  • 1 “NoBody Dance” animated film produced by Martine Epoque and Denis Poulin.

• 1 tactile carpet and a 47 inches screen;

• 1 climbing wall;

• 1 medical zone;

• 1 door with surveillance cameras;

• 1 car driving simulator;

• 1 virtual psychotherapy module on the fear of spiders;

• 1 children’s module with digital drawing pads;

• 1 module with two pin-art games.

A complete educational guide for children of daycare, kindergarten, elementary school and high school is included with the exhibition.

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