Project Number
- 113
Title
- The Snake Pit: Mental Health Care in Sharp Focus
Description
- Social commentary art installation through networked hyper-resolution displays.
Contact
- Margaret Crane
Affiliation
- M. Crane Communications
Address
- 649 Page Street, #6
- San Francisco, California 94117
- +1.415.255.8505
- San Francisco, California 94117
- crane@parc.xerox.com
WWW
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "The Snake Pit links recent developments in ultra-high-resolution display technology and global-network connectivity with aesthetic and social concerns in contemporary art."
- "Visitors use a simple touch-screen interface to engage with a near-photographic quality, 6.3-million pixel (~3000x2000) greyscale liquid crystal display, driven by extended hypertext markup language (HTML) and a customized World Wide Web browser."
- "With both laser-sharp statistical focus and lyrical abandon, The Snake Pit examines mental health issues through a hypertext of still and moving images, graphics, sound, and text. Its montage-like presentation is inspired by the layered nature of its subject and is driven by the developing potentials of liquid-crystal display technology, which offers the means to effectively present a visually compelling and multi-facted exploration of a complex subject."
Sight
- graphics workstation, hyperpixel LCD display
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- touch-screen interface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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