TALES OF SWISS INNOVATION
Director and Curator of the EPFL Pavilions and the head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL, Professor Sarah Kenderdine conducts cutting-edge research in immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Through installations exhibited worldwide, she fuses cultural heritage with new media arts practice, particularly in the fields of interactive cinema, augmented reality, and embodied storytelling.
An exceptional conference titled “Future Cinema Systems” will be given by Professor Sarah Kenderdine on November 6th. As part of the carte blanche she is offered, she will also present:
The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1969 | Soviet Union
Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurov | 2002 | RU, DE, JP, CA, FI, DK
THE PANORAMA OF THE BATTLE OF MURTEN
Professor Kenderdine and her eM+ lab at EPFL present an exceptional digitalized version of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten.
Representation of the digital twin of the Murten Panorama on the system Panorama+. Image credit: eM+
Louis Braun | 1894 | CH
We are at the end of the 15th century, and the Burgundian Wars are raging in what is not yet modern Switzerland. The Duke of Burgundy is finally defeated by the Confederates in Murten in 1476. Four centuries later, German painter Louis Braun undertakes the creation of the famous circular panorama – ten meters high by one hundred meters long – which details this great moment in Swiss history. More than twenty years after its last public appearance at Expo02, the DIAGRAM project (Digitizing and Augmenting the Panorama of the Battle of Murten), led by Professor Sarah Kenderdine, is reviving the Panorama from its slumber by digitizing it, thus creating the largest digital image ever conceived! This titanic digital fresco will be accompanied by sounds and scents in a not-to-be-missed immersive experience.
The monumental interactive work of the Panorama of Murten will be presented as part of the SWISSPHORIA program, which highlights Swiss digital creation. Other Swiss offerings can also be (re)discovered, such as the mythical immersive documentary Impressions of Switzerland (Ernst A. Heiniger, 1984, CH), shown continuously at the Lucerne Transport Museum from 1984 to 2002, recently restored in VR by the Cinémathèque suisse, or six contemporary works from the NeoDoc collection – winners of the first call for projects launched by the pôle de création numérique – that illustrate the rich innovation of the French-speaking region, from deepfake to interactive vox pop.
