Here and Now (2018)

This digital artwork combined objects from the collections of the Great North Museum: Hancock and elsewhere, with environmental data to tell stories of how we are changing our world, and our world is changing us. For each object, we asked museum curators and other experts to answer the questions “what is this?” and “what does it tell us about environmental change?” The artwork displayed animated 3D models of the objects whose visibility was controlled by a set of relevant environmental data whilst answers to the two questions play. The artwork was designed to be experienced at a large scale, and was shown as part of the Great Exhibition of the North at the Great North Museum: Hancock.

Watch and listen to the online version of the artwork, and read about some of the objects within it.

I led this collaborative project between Open Lab and the School of Engineering at Newcastle University, the [Tyndall Centre for Climate Change] Research(http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/) at Manchester University, FutureEverything, and the Great North Museum: Hancock.

The digital artwork was devised and built by Dan Hett with additional coding by Martin O’Leary, and content and additional design by me including creating 3D models of several of the objects using photogrammetry.