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IME – Inclusive Museum Experiences

Art Beyond Vision

Art you can feel. Paintings translated into touch and interactive sound.

The tactile

From painting to relief

Here, touch is allowed.

Run your hands across the surface. Find the texture, follow the shapes and piece the composition together, one detail at a time.

The auditory

Where the shape becomes meaning

A camera follows the fingers across the relief and responds dynamically through the soundscape.

As your fingers move across the surface, the sound moves with them. Diegetic sounds of elements in the composition help you understand what you are touching, while music and sound design carry what the painting feels like. These are both dynamically shaped by the movement of your hands. You choose your own path through the work.

An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. The original painting. The tactile relief of An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh, where the depth of the motif is translated into differences in height you can feel. Sound map of An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh. The colours show how strongly the installation responds with sound.
  • Rug
  • Face
  • Jewellery
  • Bracelet
  • Pots
The frequency content of the sound, drawn as bars across the sound map.
An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann · Sound map

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