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Susan Unterberg : photographer
Susan Unterberg is a photographer based in New York City. I designed Susan's web site which features several series of her beautiful prints.
Image © copyright Susan Unterberg 2004
Visit the web site at www.susanunterberg.net
Barcelona!
These kiosks, developed for a major exhibition at Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, were presented using large high resolution wide screen displays and a data projector. They contain background information and images about art, people, places, and journals from Barcelona in the era of Dali, Picasso, Gaudi and Miro. The project was commissioned, designed and delivered in under two months.
The kiosks were implemented in Flash with a set of simple XML files. These files incorporate not only the text content of the interactive but they also define the sequence for thumbnail indexes, create galleries of images with captions and hyperlinks, and store hotspot data for an animated map. This means that all of these aspects of the project are readily edited by the client.
Unfortunately, due to copyright reasons, this project cannot be shown online.
Woodward Portrait Explorer
This major installation at London's National Portrait Gallery features specially commissioned video interviews with artists, and at the time of opening included over 10,000 works of art.
I designed and art directed this system and its interactive features, and co-project managed, working with the production team and NPG staff and reporting to the NPG management team.
Man-U-Net
This interactive encyclopaedia of Manchester United Football Club is accessible through a suite of touchscreen kiosks in the Club's museum at Old Trafford. Documenting the Club's players and matches from 1878, this system is designed to generate almost all the screen layouts automatically. It has over 28,000 pages and includes hours of video footage.
I designed the system so that these pages could accommodate hugely varied amounts of data about football matches, players and teams and so that, despite being automatically generated, they would always look as good as possible without the need for individual review and modification.
As is often the case I worked closely with the museum's designers to ensure consistency of style between the museum as a whole and what appears on screen.
Challenge of Materials
I designed these information points for the Challenge of Materials gallery at London's Science Museum. They feature interactive quizzes and games and many commissioned 3D models. The kiosks were subsequently been reworked into an educational CD-ROM package.
Micro Gallery, Washington DC
The second Micro Gallery - which built on the achievements of the first in the National Gallery, London. This system included in-depth features on selected works of art, a scrollable, interactive timeline of the collection and large scale magnification of all works.
This system remained in use for over a decade - proof that interactive media projects can have a long life if the content is worthwhile and the design and technology are right.