Over the summer, I experienced an amazing photographic exhibition by Mat Collishaw called “Thresholds” and it is best to read the website that gives details of it www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/mat-collishaw-thresholds
This extract is taken from the Web Site “Using the latest in VR technology, Thresholds restaged one of the earliest exhibitions of photography in 1839, when British scientist William Henry Fox Talbot first presented his photographic prints to the public at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. The experience was a fully immersive portal to the past; people were able to walk freely throughout a digitally reconstructed room, and touch the bespoke vitrines, fixtures and mouldings; even the heat from a coal fire was recreated. A soundscape for Thresholds included the sound of demonstrations of the Chartist protesters who rioted in 1839 on the streets of Birmingham, and could be glimpsed through the digital windows.” Take a look here youtu.be/acktp-Wy8Nw
This picture shows a women picking up a text to read it. I am taking the picture though a window into the hall. When I suited up with the VR technology it was quite an experience to wander around the room. I meant to write a blog on the experience and then I got prompted to do so as I learnt that the BBC web site used my image under CC Licence. It is a blog on the BBC R&D section discussing reality labs. Always nice to know your image is being used and here is the BBC Blog bbc.in/2eJKo1g
