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SUMMARY:A private view of Thresholds
DESCRIPTION:Join us and go back in time to the dawn of photography with Thresholds\, a new virtual reality artwork by Mat Collishaw. Thresholds is showing at The Waterhall Gallery\, BMAG\, and we are delighted to offer our members and their guests a private viewing on Thursday 20 July from 3.30pm – 4.30pm. Using the latest in VR technology\, Thresholds restages 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 in Birmingham. \nThe experience is a fully immersive portal to the past; people are able to walk freely throughout a digitally reconstructed room\, and touch the bespoke vitrines\, fixtures and mouldings; even the heat from a coal fire is recreated. A soundscape for Thresholds includes the sound of demonstrations of the Chartist protesters who rioted in 1839 on the streets of Birmingham\, and can be glimpsed through the digital windows. \nThe original 19th-century exhibition\, staged by the British Association for the Advancement of Science\, celebrated cutting edge technological innovation. Unfortunately\, Fox Talbot’s original images have faded almost beyond recognition with several of the surviving photographs existing only in light-proof vaults. Thresholds not only restages an important historical exhibition but provides a way to view images that have since been lost. \nMat worked with photographic historian Pete James; Paul Tennent from Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Laboratory; respected authority on Fox Talbot\, Larry Schaaf; Architect / Architectural Historian David Blissett; the team at VMI studios and The Whitewall Company\, London. \nThresholds was first presented by Somerset House and Photo London\, in collaboration with Blain|Southern gallery. The project is supported by: Colmore Business District\, Birmingham City University\, King Edward’s School\, The Schools of King Edward’s Birmingham\, BOM\, an Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant\, the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts and the exhibition’s touring partners. \n“The dawning of a new art form … this is the future”\nBBC Radio 4 Saturday Review \nTickets are £4.50 plus usual online booking fee. \nBook here.
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SUMMARY:A private view of Thresholds
DESCRIPTION:Join us and go back in time to the dawn of photography with Thresholds\, a new virtual reality artwork by Mat Collishaw. Thresholds is showing at The Waterhall Gallery\, BMAG\, and we are delighted to offer our members and their guests a private viewing on Thursday 20 July from 3.30pm – 4.30pm. Using the latest in VR technology\, Thresholds restages 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 in Birmingham. \nThe experience is a fully immersive portal to the past; people are able to walk freely throughout a digitally reconstructed room\, and touch the bespoke vitrines\, fixtures and mouldings; even the heat from a coal fire is recreated. A soundscape for Thresholds includes the sound of demonstrations of the Chartist protesters who rioted in 1839 on the streets of Birmingham\, and can be glimpsed through the digital windows. \nThe original 19th-century exhibition\, staged by the British Association for the Advancement of Science\, celebrated cutting edge technological innovation. Unfortunately\, Fox Talbot’s original images have faded almost beyond recognition with several of the surviving photographs existing only in light-proof vaults. Thresholds not only restages an important historical exhibition but provides a way to view images that have since been lost. \nMat worked with photographic historian Pete James; Paul Tennent from Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Laboratory; respected authority on Fox Talbot\, Larry Schaaf; Architect / Architectural Historian David Blissett; the team at VMI studios and The Whitewall Company\, London. \nThresholds was first presented by Somerset House and Photo London\, in collaboration with Blain|Southern gallery. The project is supported by: Colmore Business District\, Birmingham City University\, King Edward’s School\, The Schools of King Edward’s Birmingham\, BOM\, an Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant\, the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts and the exhibition’s touring partners. \n“The dawning of a new art form … this is the future”\nBBC Radio 4 Saturday Review \nTickets are £4.50 plus usual online booking fee. \nBook here.
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