Are We Really Strangers?
Test run at the GEM lab ©2015 Hannah Minzloff
WHEN: October 17 6pm - midnight, Nocturne 2015
WHERE: Halifax Central Library, Spring Garden Road
Are We Really Strangers? is a two-part audience-engagement exhibit that continues the exploration of strangers from the hugely successful Nocturne 2014 installation Who Is A Stranger? where we photographed over 500 people at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.
During Nocturne 2015, strangers were photographed meeting for the first time in our pop-up studio at the Halifax Central Library. Their portraits were displayed on a large interactive digital display, allowing individuals to connect to people they know, who had also had their portraits taken. The resulting virtual connection-network map was simultaneously displayed in the street front windows of the Library.
This work is a collaboration between photographers Damian Lidgard, Orla MacEachern, and Hannah Minzloff, with Professor Derek Reilly and his students at the Graphics and Experiential Media (GEM) Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.
WHERE: Halifax Central Library, Spring Garden Road
Are We Really Strangers? is a two-part audience-engagement exhibit that continues the exploration of strangers from the hugely successful Nocturne 2014 installation Who Is A Stranger? where we photographed over 500 people at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.
During Nocturne 2015, strangers were photographed meeting for the first time in our pop-up studio at the Halifax Central Library. Their portraits were displayed on a large interactive digital display, allowing individuals to connect to people they know, who had also had their portraits taken. The resulting virtual connection-network map was simultaneously displayed in the street front windows of the Library.
This work is a collaboration between photographers Damian Lidgard, Orla MacEachern, and Hannah Minzloff, with Professor Derek Reilly and his students at the Graphics and Experiential Media (GEM) Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.
