Full VR experience and shadow puppetry exhibition
A Multisensory VR Experience that Reimagines the Future of Libraries
The Infinite Library is a traveling installation produced by the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan that reimagines the future of libraries as interactive spaces that engage visitors through
multisensory forms of storytelling. It seeks to embed human stories within a much grander narrative, one which includes the birth of our planet and the evolution of all life forms.
The ‘Library’ part of the installation is conceived as a living organism, a kind of embodiment of knowledge that introduces itself to visitors personally before inviting them to explore its house. This includes a
QR code game, 3D-printed objects, audio-visual works, and the project’s central piece: a vast VR library set in a cave. The project is an
immersive storytelling experience that visualizes different cultural backgrounds across past, present, and future, expanding the concept of the library into a cross-cultural concept of knowledge transfer through VR rooms.
Open for all!
For more details/queries call us: +91 44 2833 1645 or mail us:
library-chennai@goethe.de
The Infinite Library - Events
Tuesday, 20th September 2022 I 4.00pm – 5.00pm
The Infinite Library – Multisensory storytelling in VR: from the oral traditions of Polynesia and south India to the symbolic systems of European Alchemy
Opening presentation by the creative director Mika Johnson
Click here for the Poster
Wednesday, 21st September 2022 I 6.00pm – 10.00pm
Long Eve of VR: Interactions, Food, Drinks and VRExperiences
Young artists will be in discussion with the audience talking about knowledge transfer from traditional intangible systems and how they are presented in contemporary styles.
Saturday, 24th September 2022 I 11.00am – 12.30pm and 3.30pm – 5.00pm
Shadow Puppetry Show
- A. Selvaraj, puppeteer, Dakshinachitra
Enthralling stories from mythology and intriguing stories for the present weave together as shadows to bring to light an experience beyond imagination.
We have 2 shows for the shadow puppetry on 24.09.2022 and we request you to register your participation
here.
The Infinite Library is not brimming with books. Nor is it a building. Nor is it reminiscent of anything that reminds one of a traditional library. It is an experience that takes place inside a virtual cave, with access to small chambers that double as portals, or micro worlds, that allow you to travel in time. Beneath the cave flows a subterranean river that connects all the chambers, like the nodes of rhizome roots that branch out horizontally, all deep within the womb of the Earth. Each node in turn has its own centre or seed, which is ready to grow to the surface via a sinkhole, should you activate the knowledge within. The unity of these systems of knowledge, along with culture and nature, is at the core of this project. It is the library’s guiding metaphor. From the star to the stone, there is no above or below in The Infinite Library. There is only knowledge in each corner where we seek to discover and understand it.
Creative Director – The Infinite Library
Mika Johnson
Mika is the creative director of The Infinite Library and a multimedia artist by profession, interested in dream-like narratives, mythos, rituals, and biodiversity. While his concentration is designing XR experiences, Mika Johnson also works in many mediums, including as a director for fiction and documentary projects.
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