Rijksakademie Open Studios Website (2000)

The interface I created with Dessislava Karoushkova (concepting) for the Open Ateliers of the Rijksakademie Amsterdam where we did our final year (2000). Created with Macromedia Director.

Some notes on the design:

• Every artist (participant) had one virtual room to show his or her work. They could choose which sides (of 6 ) to use.
• The images of the work made up the walls.
• Video works were possible. To show videos in 3d I created 10 second animated GIFs from the movies to show on the walls. On clicking the zoomed image would change into a QuickTime movie. The QT movies was often smaller than the animated GIF! (ahem)
• The entrance to each studio was through a name cloud. The cloud had 4 appearances: dense cloud, dispersed cloud, alphabetical vertical list and scrolling horizontal list. A mouse rollover on a name would evoke a piano sound. I created more liveliness by randomly changing the loudness of each note.
• I built a content management system to manage participant names, images and locations of the images in the virtual room, all in Director as well.