Memory of Nations Institutes - The new platform for deeply impressive artistic mediation of personal destinies on the background of the turbulent 20th century history using the latest interactive information and communication technologies
POST BELLUM ·Czechia
About this project
<p>We’ll create unique content for multimedia artistic exhibits representing a new history telling via authentic personal testimonies. The exhibition focuses on the viewer and brings Czech and foreign visitors closer to the Czech, resp. European experience (incl. Norwegian) with totalitarian regimes. The interdisciplinary project combines new media, game design, history, educational practices, visual communication, museology and other art principles to create a 20th-century plastic image offering different perspectives on historical themes. The project supports cultural institutions' capacity building and the creation of new modern history regional museums, lacking in the Czech Republic - the Memory of Nation Institutes (MNI). The MNI purpose is to popularise modern history via authentic personal testimonies based on the extensive Memory of Nation Archive. We’ll open the regional centres in Pardubice and Brno.</p> <p>We intend to convey historical topics to the widest audience possible. Thus we’ll create content to mediate interesting information and personal testimonies in a suggestive and interactive form, connected with the present, too. We’ll use the latest technologies and storytelling principles with an emphasis on preserving the stories' authenticity. Using augmented reality, the visitor experiences concrete destinies and becomes a part of them. We are implementing the project with a foreign partner, the renowned Falstad Centre, which focuses on documenting the 20th-century phenomena and presenting these topics via modern exhibition procedures. This cooperation will mutually increase our competencies in the field of creating exhibition content with modern technologies incl. i.a. augmented reality. The project will use the latest techniques and theories from the museology and education field and connect them with technologies in a project, where unique content will be created for interactive multimedia art exhibitions to become Czech modern history regional centres.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
Cooperation with the Norwegian partner played a crucial role in the project. The main benefit was cooperation in creating new content for local exhibitions, but also joint work on creating an exhibition with Norwegian-Czech content, thanks to which project promoter gained valuable contacts and were given the opportunity to thank Scandinavian citizens for their support of Charter 77. Regarding the exhibitions, the exchange took place mainly in the area of exchanging multimedia elements and augmented reality elements. The exchange within the framework of study trips was also important, from which the educational departments of both organizations benefited in particular and whose cooperation will continue in the future. It was also beneficial to get acquainted with the financing system of similar institutions in Norway. Project promoter was thus able to include this knowledge in the audience development strategy of our institutions.
Project partners
- Falstad Centre Donor project partner· Norway