12-01, 09:00–09:30 (Europe/Berlin), Stage 1, Leibniz-Saal, BBAW
Hommage is an interactive installation in which users can explore artworks in a 3D space by the usage of VR technologies
Moving Sound Pictures is a project where users have the opportunity to interactively explore paintings of well-known artists in a VR environment through playful actions. In the frame of this project,
“Hommage” is an interactive VR installation in which three artworks have been adapted to a virtual three-dimensional environment. Explore Dali’s living room inspired by the Mae West’s face, interact with Matisse’s spray of leaves and play with Picasso’s mandolin and guitar. The user, who wears a VR headset and holds controllers in his hands can move around and interact with different objects of the paintings. Some of them are used as musical instruments, others are used as objects for controlling music and sounds!
“Hommage” is a tribute to friendship, common respect and admiration between artists, who considered to be milestones in art history of the 20th century. Salvador Dali was fascinated by the actress and sex icon Mae West. Henri Matisse felt at the beginning threatened by the younger painter Pablo Picasso but as time passed by a creative rivalry developed to a respectful artistic relationship between them.
The multimedia artist and developer of Moving Sound Pictures Konstantina Orlandatou has created this imaginary world based on her artistic interpretation and invites you to discover paintings from a different perspective!
Moving Sound Pictures is funded by:
Innovative Hochschule
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Gemeinsame Wissensschaftskonferenz
Konstantina Orlandatou studied composition, music theory, piano and accordion in the Conservatory of Athens (Greece) and multimedia composition (M.A.) at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg. In 2014 she completed her doctoral dissertation with the title “Synaesthetic and intermodal audio-visual perception: an experimental research” in the University of Hamburg (Department of Systematic Musicology).
Since 2018 she leads the project “Moving Sound Pictures” at the University of Music and Drama in which she uses VR technologies as an interface for art mediation between music and visual arts. Through playful actions users can interact with paintings of well-known artists of the 20th century in a three dimensional space and generate music through this interaction. Her latest interactive VR installation “SEE, HEAR, PLAY KANDINSKY!” has been exhibited this year in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.