Emergent Storytelling: Interactive Transmedia Installation for Digital Cultural Heritage
PaperVibeke Sorensen, Singapore
Published paper: Emergent Storytelling: Interactive Transmedia Installation for Digital Cultural Heritage

Inspired by Tibetan Medicine mandalas, this ‘Illuminated Folding Screen’ is a large scale interactive visual music installation by Vibeke Sorensen. The work is 30 meters long, and employs Tibetan Singing Bowls, Asian Folding Screens, Indian Ottomans, and local plants, as well as 13 networked computers, sensors and embedded systems to provide the audience the opportunity to collectively and individually engage the images and music in a meditative experience. It was installed at the ADM Gallery at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013.

Sanctuary is a real-time 4 screen interactive installation that allowed the audience to individually and collectively explore natural and spiritual sanctuaries around the globe. It was an emergent system that used real-time physical computing to provide users the opportunity to construct their own narratives through freely navigating more than 10,000 photographs, 300 movies, numerous musical recordings, and poetry. The benches, plants, floor, as well as other objects in the environment provided interactive feedback from the users to the system. Installed at Gallery 1-1-1 at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada in 2005.

Morocco Memory II, Interactive Architectural Installation by Vibeke Sorensen at Interactive Frictions, University of Southern California, 1999. A multimodal immersive installation engaging all of the senses including touch and aroma, this work allows the audience to navigate and connect texts, photographs, movies, music, sound and light to navigate cultural memory and provide an individual and collective experience.

Morocco Memory II, Interactive Architectural Installation by Vibeke Sorensen at Interactive Frictions, University of Southern California, 1999. A multimodal immersive installation engaging all of the senses including touch and aroma, this work allows the audience to navigate and connect texts, photographs, movies, music, sound and light to navigate cultural memory and provide an individual and collective experience.

Morocco Memory II by Vibeke Sorensen at Interactive Frictions, University of Southern California, 1999. It is a multimodal immersive installation engaging all of the senses including touch and aroma, that allows the audience to navigate and connect texts, photographs, movies, music, sound and light to navigate cultural memory and provide an individual and collective experience. Boxes with spices in them employed embedded systems to transmit wireless signals to the computers to begin navigation of the lexia and media. The metaphor was the mixing of aromas is like the mixing of memories.