On December 15, the 2nd "Culture + Technology" International Forum jointly hosted by the Palace Museum and Tencent opened in Shenzhen, where many museums, cultural institutions, universities and technology companies from around the world discussed what kind of impact and changes science and technology can bring to the cultural field.
At Notre Dame De Paris, the digital building modeling team built a "virtual twin" version of Notre Dame De Paris, creating a new study of multi-disciplinary integration; in Shenzhen, with the help of AR technology to restore part of the scene of the Forbidden City, you can also enjoy the "happiness of the emperor".
With the blessing of digital technology, museum exhibitions have become cooler and more fun.
The museum, it turned out to be so much fun
More than 50 experts and scholars gathered to share one interesting exploration story after another in this forum, and culture and technology are being integrated in a different way.
Recreate a Notre Dame Cathedral
Two years ago, after a fire broke out at Notre Dame Cathedral, causing its spire to collapse, Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed: Revolution was given free of charge, giving people a glimpse of this treasure of human civilization in a virtual game world.
Now the digital version of Notre Dame is really coming.
Livio de Luca, head of digital architectural modeling at Notre Dame de Paris, said at the forum that they have now created a "virtual twin" of Notre Dame de Paris with architects, programmers, scholars, etc.
The staff of the digital modeling team used a variety of equipment to identify the building material, and then paired with a miniature plane along the damaged dome of the church, etc., to continuously take extremely accurate photos, while the 3D laser sensors on the aircraft recorded the structural information, and finally the programmers built a virtual Notre Dame based on the cloud network reproduction based on this information.
From materials, spatial structures, and even people's behavior after the fire, with the help of computational models and digital technologies, the Digital Building Modeling Group is building both a virtual Notre Dame model and an innovative research approach to multi-disciplinary integration.
The virtual twin of Notre Dame de Paris can not only be used as a reference in the actual restoration process to speed up the repair, but Also Luca said that he will disclose the complete data of the virtual Notre Dame, in the near future, people may really be able to use VR to feel the charm of Notre Dame de Paris at home, and even download 3D models.
Take a boat trip to the river to admire jiangnan
The Grand Canal Museum of China in Yangzhou, which officially opened in June this year, showcased its newness with an exhibition titled "Boats on the Canal", while also breaking through the boundaries of the museum experience.
Large, it constructs people's first impression of the exhibition "Boats on the Canal", which covers an area of 865 square meters.
Entering the exhibition hall, the first thing that catches the eye is a series of exquisite ship models, which are arranged in order according to the development of the dynasty, from the exquisite fishing boats and passenger ships to the complexity and magnificence of official ships and boats, which is undoubtedly the "happy paradise" for ship model lovers.
Further on, a sand spaceship completely in accordance with the historical 1:1 reproduction of the face, this Kangxi period civil ship up to 20 meters long, cabin, ship plate, interior are readily available, into the cabin, you can be like the ancients leisure, appreciation of paintings.
Stepping out of the cabin to the ship board area, the most magical scene of the whole exhibition came, looking around, Xixing Ancient Town, Beiguan Night Market, Ten Thousand People Wharf, the beauty of Jiangnan Hangzhou seems to be really in front of you.
In fact, the museum is rigorously screened and restored according to historical materials, in the large exhibition hall space, through 25 high-quality projectors to shape a virtual Jiangnan world, the way people and the museum contact has been changed, and the culture contained in the cultural relics has also been passed on to everyone who visits the exhibition.
Protect that peacock
Kitano Nobuhiko, a restoration expert from Ryukoku University in Japan, shared the story of their use of digital technology to restore the Tang Gate, a national treasure of Honganji Temple.
Gorgeous wood carvings on the Tang Gate
The Tang Gate is equipped with a variety of intricate and colorful wood carvings, including peacocks, unicorns and other beasts, and even carved with stories with Chinese historical colors such as Xu You, Chao Father, Zhang Liang and Huang Shigong.
During the restoration, Kitano Nobuhiko and the restoration team took high-definition photos of Tangmen, measured the engravings in three dimensions when they were removed, and made three-dimensional reproductions based on the data, which was conducive to observing the engravings and facilitating the later coloring and restoration.
Unicorn carved replica
On the other hand, the carved reproductions can also be used as exhibits, and in other regions, Kitano Nobuhiko made a replica of an engraved phoenix frieze window during the restoration of Ruiyan Temple, and donated it to the temple as one of the contents of the tourist tour.
With the help of digital technology, not only can cultural relics be more easily restored, but their replicas can also shine and heat up, so that people can understand and feel the culture.
Without leaving home, you can also watch the exhibition
Together with Tencent, the Forbidden City explored another way to collect and exhibit cultural relics, and the two sides cooperated to launch a small program - the Digital Forbidden City, which is very localized.
This is a mobile exhibition hall, through the use of AI, VR and other technical means, on the mobile phone you can enjoy the "Zhu Zhanji Three Rats Flower Scroll", see the green jade dragon button, and can also use the pattern or color, connecting different dynasties, different categories of cultural relics, to a customized theme exhibition for you.
Swipe to see artifact details
At the same time, the digital Forbidden City Mini Program is also an instruction manual for playing the Forbidden City, which not only provides offline reservation ticket purchase, route guide, but also the latest thematic exhibition information, which saves time and effort and is convenient to visit.
In addition, a number of cloud exhibitions have been launched on the Digital Forbidden City Mini Program, such as "Dunxing Far Away: The Forbidden City Dunhuang Special Exhibition", with the help of digital technology, various cultural relics are unfolded like a picture scroll.
Browse multiple showrooms
The exhibition does not stay in the virtual cultural relics, based on panoramic photography technology, you can also enter the virtual exhibition hall, get a closer look at the museum collection, and visit the online Wenhua Hall, Xiyan Wing Tower and Wuying Hall and other digital exhibition halls.
Through the digital Forbidden City Mini Program, people understand cultural relics online convenient and fast, offline tours are evidence-based, and the Mini Program has become a bridge between people and the Palace Museum, connecting culture and love.
Create a dream for you
In addition to the forum, many institutions around the world have tried to use digital immersion exhibitions to change the way people interact with cultural institutions such as museums, and use a variety of brilliant colors and spatial audio technology to build one strange dream after another for visitors.
Immerse yourself in van Gogh's world
The L'Atelier des Lumières in Paris is undoubtedly a pioneering discovery institution for digital immersion, a converted art gallery from an old steel foundry with over 1,500 square meters of exhibition space, complete with a large number of digital projectors and loudspeakers, to create an immersive experience.
Image courtesy of Gianfranco-iannuzzi
Van Gogh: Starry Night is one of the most well-known exhibitions at the Digital Art Museum in Paris, the charm of the exhibition comes from Van Gogh's paintings, but not only the original paintings, under the projection of dozens of projectors, the entire exhibition hall constitutes a closed, huge world, wrapping people.
The swirling Milky Way, the flowing halo, a sailing ship fluttering faintly, Starry Night, Sunflowers, where Van Gogh's paintings are no longer static, the colors flow like rivers, and the tension-filled picture seems to pull people into the world of Van Gogh's paintings.
Unconsciously, emotions are driven by this dreamlike world, sometimes excited, sometimes warm, sometimes calm.
Dreaming of Japan
When it comes to Japan, ukiyo-e is an unavoidable topic, and painters describe the lives of the people of the Edo period in Japan in rich colors.
Visual creative studio Danny Rose and French art agency Culturespaces have built a special exhibition at the Musée Digital des Artes in Paris based on ukiyo-e, "Dreaming of Japan: Images of a Floating World"
Image courtesy of Danny Rose
In the exhibition, the famous painter Katsushika Hokusai's painting "Kanagawa Surfing" seems to have become a reality, and as people move, the waves around the exhibition hall are turbulent, and the huge waves come again and again.
As the paper sliding door pushed, the geisha slowly appeared, and the charm of the smile was revealed, and the huge fish appeared as the picture flashed continuously, which seemed to be the beautiful expectation of the Edo people for fishing.
Dozens of projectors project huge ukiyo-e as if they really brought the Edo period to people's eyes.
Feel the happiness of the Qianlong Emperor
During the forum, the Forbidden City and Tencent also jointly brought an immersive digital experience exhibition - "Pattern" to carry the road, people will see up to 5.3 meters of naked-eye 3D cultural relics, 22 times high-definition magnification of cultural relics, fully feel the craftsmanship of the craftsman.
The reason why it can go beyond the experience of physical cultural relics exhibition, based on the immersive content production technology developed by Tencent Multimedia Lab, walking into the interior of the visual installation with a height of 8 meters, the audience is like entering the world of a kaleidoscope of patterns.
Further on, you will find that all around you will be filled with colorful patterns of various cultural relics, rotating and extending around people.
It is worth mentioning that in the 360-degree ring screen, the pattern screen will also fly into the "big plate" to interact, just like the heron that flies back to the artifact, flexible and natural.
Another major importance of this exhibition is the digitally restored "Qianlong Jiangnan Dream" - Ti Qinzhai, as the residence built by the Qianlong Emperor after his return to the government, the entire building can be called magnificent both inside and outside. With the help of VR digitalization, we can feel the "emperor's happiness" in the Shenzhen exhibition hall.
As long as you put on AR glasses, you can also see the stage in the center of tired Qinzhai and at the same time, with the help of digital technologies such as the panoramic sound technology of the QQ Music Galaxy team, people can also get a more three-dimensional audiovisual experience and feel the beauty of Jiangnan in the painting of Tired Qinzhai Tongjing.
Museums are getting cooler, all for you
Museums have become more diverse, and the combination of technology and culture has produced more and more colorful forms.
They can be Dunhuang poetry scarves, Dunhuang experts and Tencent extracted exquisite elements from the alois, murals, freely combined in the hands of 3 million users, designed exclusive silk scarf patterns, but also a key to order production, our relationship with cultural relics is not just to watch.
It can also be a dream created in the digital immersive exhibition, with the projection of the projector, van Gogh's world slowly unfolds, the dream between the flow of colors quietly begins, and a virtual world unfolds to you.
Museums that document the development of the times and the changes of humanity can also be presented in a futuristic way of "virtual world", as William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk, said:
The future has long been here, but it has not yet been evenly distributed
Digital technology is still moving forward, tencent and other technology companies and museums around the world will not stop exploring cooperation, the boundaries of the museum experience are constantly being broken, reshaped and upgraded, all to let you and more people access museums.
The combination of technology and museums has become a new opportunity for experiences, attracting young people's attention to museums, and the culture behind cultural relics and buildings has also been transmitted and developed between you and me, human beings.
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