Those of you who are at the North Bank Artists Gallery tonight (5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 7) can not only attend the fabulous faculty, students, and friends art exhibition, called arsTECHNOLOGIKA, you can be immersed in the first installation piece based on the interpretive media of the Fort Vancouver Mobile project.
This exhibit will include videos and animations from the initial Fort Vancouver Mobile modules (Kanaka, Kane's Wanderings, and A Villager's Tale as well as a preview of the new tablet app material for the National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored module, titled Grand Emporium of the West).
Taking this work out of context, from place-based use at Fort Vancouver, in a specific physical environment and translating that feel to a gallery has been an interesting challenge. But, with bales of straw, numerous living history props from the fort, the debut of the period music created by Richard Kriehn and Paul Ely Smith, and three living history interpreters on site tonight, we're experimenting with what a gallery show about the artistry of this app could be.
At the minimum, we hope the exhibit makes you think about historical interpretation in different ways. We also set up a historic backdrop, with period props, in case you want to use your mobile to capture the moment; you can send that image out in your social media channels, including Twitter, with the hashtags #fvmobile and #arsTechnologika. If you can't make it tonight, the exhibit will be open at North Bank the rest of the month.
Thanks for learning more about the Fort Vancouver Mobile project!
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