Electro Bacchanalia

PROJECT: 
Electro Bacchanalia
PLACE: 
Stockholm, Brighton, Prague, Budapest
DATE: 
01.01.2007 to 01.05.2007
Electro Bacchanalia is a museum installation that aims to stimulate young visitor's interests in the motif of an old master's painting and make a flirtatious reference to contemporary lifestyle. The protototype was developed at the Interactive Institute in 2007 by the Digital Cultural Heritage Centre of Expertise, Performing Pictures and Evoking Spaces. Performing Pictures has produced the story, content and technical solution for the Electro Bacchanalia.

CLIENT: DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE OF EXPERTISE AS PART OF THE INTERACTIVE SALON AND THE EPOCH-PROJECT
YEAR: 2007

Electro Bacchanalia is a modern interpretation of a peep show, set in a traditional 17th century style wooden box. One side of the box displays a replica of the painting. In the middle of the painting the visitor finds a small peeping hole. When looking into the box through the painting, a stage-like setup of the painting is revealed. Two of the characters – the faun and the woman in the centre of the painting – are brought to life in the scenery inside the box. As music flows from the box, the couple starts dancing.

Electro Bacchanalia toured Europe as part of the exhibition Interactive Salon 2007 with stops in Brighton, Prague and Budapest in 2007 and was displayed at Kulturhuset, Stockholm in September 2008.

Electro Bacchanalia has been exhibited at following venues:
Interactive Salon exhibition in Prague as a part of the EUROGRAPHICS, 2007
Interactive Salon exhibition in Brighton as a part of the VAST conference, 2007
The Best in Heritage - Excellence Club in Cologne, as a part of the Cologne Fine Art fair 2007
Interactive Institute in Kista for the Swedish museums annual spring meeting, 2008
Researchers’ Night at Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2008

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