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A thread to position myself
Help create a digital interactive exhibition installation on slavery for the online platform of the exhibition ‘Memories'
Challenge
As part of the MEG's upcoming temporary exhibition, 'Memories. Geneva in the Colonial World', the interpretation team and Ivonne Gonzales, has designed a physical participative installation on the topic of slavery. The installation’s aim is to encourage the visitors to move beyond a solely intellectual (and thus distant) understanding of the transatlantic trade and its devasting consequences. Instead, the installation will ask the public to position themselves emotionally and intellectually vis-à-vis this tragic chapter of our common history.
We now need your help to carry out its digital creation.
You're also more then welcome to contribute with feedback on the physical installation!
CONTEXT:
The physical hands-on interactive installation will be situated in the physical exhibition’s section on the transatlantic trade and Geneva’s links to it, next to a mural designed by Kalonji (Genevan artist) which emphasises the fact that slavery is a chapter of our common history.A digital platform is being developed along the exhibition, which will mirror the exhibition. It is important for us that the analogue hands-on installation on slavery has a digital pendant. That would enable us to collect data on how the audiences relate to and position themselves regarding this history. It will also enable those who don’t have access to the physical exhibition to participate.
EXPLAINATIONS
The physical version of the installation will work as follow:
Visitors will have to pick a pre-cut thread from five boxes. Each box contains threads of a specific colour and corresponds to one of the following affirmations: My ancestors were enslaved My ancestors participated or benefited directly or indirectly from slavery I am not directly concerned by slavery My country benefited directly or indirectly from slavery I don't know what my links to slavery are
Then, the visitor faces an oval mural on which 15 words are written. In very close proximity (immediately above or under or next to) each word there’s a nail. The visitor is invited to tie their thread around the different nails that correspond to the words or word they most identify with. The words are as follow:
- Ignorance
- Anger
- Hatred / Rage
- Impotence
- Disgust
- Humiliation
- Shame
- Suffering
- Courage
- Empathy
- Indifference
- Discomfort
- To know more
- Solidarity
- Need for reparation
OPTIONS: Justice / Activism
The idea is therefore that each person creates a ‘path of resonance’ on the tapestry that maps the collective relationship ‘we’ have with the transatlantic slave trade.
A few things to keep in mind:
The tapestry must remain oval-shaped. As data/paths accumulate, it is important that the categories remain visible/readable. The categories may change and evolve - so the digital installation must be easy for the museum team to update!
INSPIRATION
TECH PLAN
In this repository, created at the GLAMhack 2023 event in Geneva, we are creating a digital interactive exhibition installation on slavery for the online platform of the exhibition ‘Memories'.
Results
- Web site prototype
- GLAMhack 2023 project page
- Sketch made with 🏴☠️ code (
sketch.js
in this repo) - Preview - Sketch made with 🤖 GPT (
GPT_p5.js
) - Preview - Penpot user interface mockup (
mockup
folder) - Online form for data collection
We built this project using the open source P5.js, with OpenProcessing and OpenAI to accelerate the process.
Our inspirations included:
- Force-directed D3 graph - thanks Valerio!
- Connecting-Dots by Kamil Wesołowski
- To Me America Is on Instagram by @Lille
Merci
Sketching
Event finish
Prototype
Sketching
Avatars (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
Merge branch 'main' of codeberg.org:OpenGLAM-CH/threads (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
Added SVG boards (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
README (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
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Sketching
Another Inspiring sketch by Cary Huang
Here's a prototype made by ChatGPT, code is on codeberg project
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2026567
Update ChatGPTp5.jsprototype (@giuachin)
Sketching
Here's my penpot prototype
Mes ancêtres ont été esclavisé.e.s Mes ancêtres ont participé directement ou indirectement à l’esclavage Je ne me sens pas directement concerné.e par cette histoire Mon pays a profité directement ou indirectement de l’esclavage
TITRE : Esclavage et héritage/mémoire (titre de travail) QUESTION : Quels mots font écho en moi ?
- Ignorance
- Colère
- Haine / Rage
- Impuissance
- Dégoût
- Humiliation
- Honte
- Souffrance
- Courage
- Empathie
- Indifférence
- Inconfort
- En savoir plus
- Solidarité
- Besoin de réparation / réparation
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ChatGPT generated code in P5.js that allows to draw lines between 10 named lines. (@giuachin)
Sketching
Midnight art mediation (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
First drop 🎉 (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
first commit (@Oleg Lavrovsky)
Work in progress, a P5.js (Processing) sketch that looks like this: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2026003
Research
Project
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Makes me think of the Unravel video game
And unsavoury Internet threads 🧵
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