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Semantic network
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Video installation
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Semantic network (detail)

Mozart

 

Mozart in a network of art, commerce, intrigues, politics, love and death.

 

From March to September 2006, uma was responsible for several sub-projects of the exhibition about Mozart in the Viennese Albertina, titled "Experiment Aufklärung" (experiment of Enlightenment).

 

During the conception phase, it was agreed to distinguish three forms of multimedia representation of the semantically linked contents:

 

  1. The big exhibition hall: 13 50-inch plasma screens with video installations based on the underlying semantic database were set up, completing the "real" contents of the exhibition and enabling a narrative contextualisation.
  2. The story of "The Magic Flute" was represented multimedially in a cave installation (12 × 3 metres large). The contents of this installation was contextualised and assembled with the researcher Jan Assmann, via a storyboard based on the underlying semantic database.
  3. In another cave installation with a historical atmosphere, the full contents of the underlying semantic network was made accessible to about 280.000 visitors. This installation could be simultaneously used by several users by connecting touch screens. This enabled the visitors to grasp how various cultural topics are connected, as well as to understand the curator's ideas and to experience the exhibition according to one's individual interests.

 

Conception

 

High standards were set for the entire production team for this cultural exhibition about the most important representative of the Austrian classical music scene.

 

The priority was not only to present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from a musicologist's perspective but also to present him in the overall context of the time. This involved not only investigating his music but also:

 

  • his social environment, the areas of tension between the increasingly self-confident bourgeoisie, the clergy and the imperial family,
  • his need to reach international fame by organising concerts at the courts of Paris, Munich, Prague, Salzburg, Vienna and Venice, to name but a few, as well as the travel and management of these trips,
  • his family and relationships to his mother and father,
  • his involvement with the free masons, his opera "The Magic Flute" which deals with their traditions, and more generally the Era of Enlightenment.
  • Last but not least, in the conception phase, a link was established to the artistic and cultural history of the following centuries, such as a contextualisation in the Nazi Era or amongst several contemporary artists, such as Keith Harring.

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