CHICAGO ØØ | Spaces (Geoffrey Alan Rhodes; 2017; 25.5 min.)

'Spaces' was created for display on the Media Stream 150— the largest screen in Chicago spanning 3,000+ square feet located in the lobby of the 150 North Riverside tower. This 33 megapixel, 150 by 22 foot video is here presented in VR so it can be viewed remotely.

'Spaces' explores the Chicago History Museum’s archive of Hedrich Blessing photographs— thousands of images captured by the world-famous architectural photography firm between 1929 and 1979. Five decades of Chicago architectural history are pulled apart and then stitched back together into ever-morphing composites of the city’s remarkable architectural legacy. Using thematic groupings and algorithmic image processing, Spaces is a computational exploration of an entire photo archive. The experience reveals the eye of the photographer as a historical window onto Chicago as a designed and constructed environment. This experience is part of CHICAGO ØØ, an initiative by the artist and the Museum to create immersive historical encounters with the city using new technologies.

The Chicago 00 Project:

CHICAGO ØØ is a partnership between the Chicago History Museum and filmmaker Geoffrey Alan Rhodes to create new media experiences with the Museum’s extensive archive of historical imagery. Together they have realized augmented reality tours at the site of the SS Eastland Disaster along Chicago’s Riverwalk, virtual reality experiences of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and the 1933/34 Century of Progress World’s Fair, and published apps and videos that bring Chicago’s stories to the objects and places in our city.

These experiences can be found and downloaded for free at http://chicago00.org
Copies of archival photographs are available for purchase at http://images.chicagohistory.org


The artist:

Geoffrey Alan Rhodes is a writer, artist, and filmmaker. His internationally exhibited feature films, art installations, and new media publications excite the human fascination with the boundary between real and imaginary. He is a professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


The Chicago History Museum:

Founded in 1856, the Chicago History Museum is the city’s oldest cultural institution and the pre-eminent institution for the preservation of Chicago history. The Chicago History Museum’s collection of millions of objects, images, and documents records the evolution of Chicago and enables the Museum to advance its mission to “share Chicago stories, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning, inspiration and civic engagement.”

www.Chicago00.org

Видео CHICAGO ØØ | Spaces (Geoffrey Alan Rhodes; 2017; 25.5 min.) канала The Chicago 00 Project