Round A New Way : Interactive Tour Guide System

– Site-specific installation and public tour-guide app

– Painted Mural on Plaster + 360 + ARKit

 The conception, development and delivery of a new way of expressing and extending artwork through contemporary digital reinterpretation. The immense 360 Robert Lenkiewicz mural in the Port Eliot Round Room inspired this unique digital expression and exploration of its characters, stories, influences and setting. The finished interdisciplinary work succeeded in increasing public engagement and understanding of the artist through interwoven digital interpretation of interviews with the mural’s subjects.

Developed using ARKit the mural is brought to life to reveal evocative audio and visual representations that peel away from the wall and populate the room as spatialized audio conversations. The resulting experience being that off a cocktail party with the characters from the wall telling you their stories in a manner reminiscent of how the room looks and sounds during a party.

Launched at the 2018 festival and intended to continue on all public days and for any private function. Unfortunately due to Covid the house is not open to the public until 2022 but when it does, the experience will be available again as tour enhancement and take-home app.

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